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

Stamina Might Be Your Strongest Health Signal @DrNashaInc

9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. Wendie Trubow explains that stamina—how you feel throughout the day—serves as a practical, real‑time indicator of metabolic health. She outlines four self‑assessment questions she uses with patients: (1) Do you wake up feeling rested? (2) After a workout, are you invigorated or do you crash? (3) Can you comfortably go more than four hours without eating without panic or “hangry” feelings? (4) Can you finish dinner by 6 p.m. and not need to eat again until the next morning? Positive answers suggest good metabolic function, while negative responses flag potential metabolic dysfunction. Dr. Trubow warns that roughly 94 % of people are metabolically unhealthy, urging listeners to monitor these stamina cues to avoid being part of that majority.

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And then the big other one for metabolic health is just about your stamina, right? How do you feel? Do you feel rested when you wake up in the morning? How do you feel after a workout? Invigorated or crashing? Those are the clues. And then my other clue that I ask patients is, how do you feel if you go more than 4 hours without a meal? Like, do you— are you fine? Do you start to panic? Do you get hangry? What happens for you? Can you finish dinner at 6 p.m. and not have to eat again of any kind until 7 a.m.? What happens for you? Those are the things I look at to let me know how metabolically healthy they are. So that's a really simple thing for your listeners to just kind of pay attention to for themselves to make sure that they are not part of that 94% that are considered metabolically unhealthy.