Josh Axe
Functional medicine practitioner, author, and co-author of Heal Your Cells
Josh Axe (Functional medicine practitioner, author, and co-author of Heal Your Cells) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Carnivore diet, Functional medicine, Seed oils.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Carnivore diet
Axe argues a fiber-free carnivore diet is not ideal long-term for most people.
“I don't think that for, for most people being carnivore is a great diet longterm”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:49:43
Axe argues most people should not follow ketogenic or carnivore diets long-term, favoring individualized omnivorous eating.
“I don't think most people should be following a ketogenic diet. I don't think most people should be following a carnivore diet”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:19:38
Functional medicine
Axe says AI tools vary in their stance on natural medicine, with Grok the most friendly and Google's Gemini among the most hostile.
“I mean, Grok is probably one of the most friendly towards natural medicine”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:35:51
Seed oils
Axe recommends extra virgin olive oil as the healthiest cooking oil, sidestepping the seed oil versus saturated fat debate.
“extra virgin olive oil absolutely is by far the healthiest oil most people can consume”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:30:36
Strength training
Axe says weight training is the fastest way to increase mitochondria because muscle is highly mitochondria-dense.
“the fastest way you can increase mitochondria is through weight training”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:50
Peptide therapy
Axe warns that barring functional medicine practitioners from prescribing peptides will push people to unsafe gray and black markets.
“if you make it to where even functional medicine practitioners can't prescribe them and recommend them, people are just going to go to the gray and black market”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 58:21
Christianity
Axe says unresolved childhood trauma is usually behind patients who plateau in their healing.
“at least 90% of the time, if I have a patient and they start seeing some results, but then they just hit this plateau”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 39:34
Vagus nerve stimulation
Axe recommends gargling for about two minutes as the fastest way he has found to enter a parasympathetic state.
“but I truly think gargling... is the fastest single way to get yourself into the state”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 34:03
Sleep and circadian rhythm
Axe names poor sleep as the biggest driver of insulin resistance, saying under six hours of sleep sharply spikes insulin.
“the amount that your insulin spikes from less than six hours of sleep is just wild”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 21:10
Insulin resistance
Axe argues that correcting insulin and cortisol will bring other hormones back into balance.
“If you would just fix insulin and cortisol, every other hormone would go back to where it should be”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 17:16
Organ aging
Axe argues from clinical experience that the share of people with an organ aging too fast is far higher than the study found, near 50%.
“I think that number is radically higher. I think it's probably closer to 50%”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 8:20
Appearances
EPISODE #175 ROUNDTABLE SPECIAL: 20% of People Have an Organ Aging Faster Than It Should! - Featuring Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will ColeThe Dylan Gemelli Podcast · Oct 22, 2026 · 1 h 57 min
Dylan Gemelli hosts Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Will Cole to discuss cellular health, organ aging, heart risk markers, sleep, faith, peptides, and diet.
Often appears with
- Dylan Gemelli · 1 shared episode
- Will Cole · 1 shared episode