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

The Anti chemical Dietary Pyramid

12 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Short interview excerpt from Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP (YouTube, June 12, 2025) describing the "anti-chemical dietary pyramid": a practical, printable framework that emphasizes detoxification at the base, then food packaging, water, and finally food quality. The speaker frames this as an extension of an anti-inflammatory diet that explicitly incorporates environmental exposure reduction and practical steps (e.g., printing the pyramid for the fridge).

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You talk about this anti chemical dietary pyramid. Can you talk a little more about that? So the bottom has the detoxification premises of what people should be thinking, I think very simplistically, then moving into food packaging and then moving into water and then moving into food. Because I think if you just take food and you don't think about the quality of your food, if you don't think about the food packaging that contributes so much of some of these chemicals, and you don't think about the detox picture, you're missing the full picture. It's in the book. And people can certainly, you know, print it out and put it on their fridge. And it's just really a bigger picture of sort of the anti inflammatory diet with this environmental component piece. And I think it's, it's very useful and very simple.