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

More Than Blood Sugar What Comes With Diabetes

30 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Dr. Wendie Trubow explains that environmental toxicants and toxins can directly raise blood sugar levels and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, cancers, and degenerative diseases. She emphasizes that diabetes should be viewed as a spectrum of metabolic dysfunction, not merely a problem of elevated glucose, and that untreated metabolic dysfunction has downstream consequences for the heart and brain.

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because we do so much work with toxicants and toxins that those directly raise your blood sugar and raise your risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, and diabetes, along with autoimmune disease and cancers and degenerative disease. But we're talking today about diabetes. And to me, diabetes is all the spectrum of— and to a lot of people, uh, diabetes is not simply abnormalities in your sugar. It also comes with more metabolic dysfunction that impacts your heart and your brain. So essentially, these are the downstream effects of untreated metabolic dysfunction.