Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Little Risk and Effort for Huge Detox Benefit

10 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This short YouTube segment (creator: Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP) argues that small, low-risk lifestyle changes produce large detox and health benefits, especially for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy. The speaker frames the approach as nonjudgmental, emphasizes habit-based swaps (e.g., drink water instead of coffee/tea, filter water, avoid Styrofoam, bring a stainless-steel cup), and recommends investing effort in doing those changes rather than spending on biomonitoring (blood/urine/breastmilk testing).

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The idea when it's risk, benefit, you know, basically the benefit is huge for very little risk and effort. And so even if you're one of those people who feels really good or feels really healthy, it pays to get this stuff on board anyway so that you can stave off harm and healthful health issues down the line. Especially if you're going to get pregnant one day or you're considering conceiving, I think that's a good time to start to think about this stuff. I never blame moms. I was rolling up to McDonald's every morning for their deluxe breakfast on hot plastic. I mean, this is what I ate every day when I was pregnant. So I want people to really think this is not about regret or shame or judgment. It's really about a journey that everyone takes to do little bits of change over time, I think starting with things like habits. You know, if you're going to have tea or coffee in the morning, maybe consider that water, maybe filter that water. Maybe you're thinking about whether it's in a Styrofoam cup or it's a cup that you go to Starbucks, maybe bring your own stainless steel. These little changes over time actually really do add up. You can measure them in the blood, you can. You can measure them in the urine, you can measure them in breast milk. But why do that? Put your money into the doing instead of the testing. And for the most part.