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

The Biggest Detox Misconceptions

5 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP breaks down detox myths, from juice cleanses to supplement marketing hype. She explains why there's no one-size-fits-all detox: you need testing first to know your specific toxic burden, then targeted approaches like specific IVs or supplements, not universal fixes like activated charcoal.

Can you talk about the biggest misconceptions people have when they think about detoxification?
Oh, the biggest misconceptions. Juice cleanses. That's gotta be number one.
All right. Juice cleanses is one misconception. Anything else?
One thing I love to talk about when misconceptions is the marketing and supplement world surrounding detox. Just because it says detox on the bottle doesn't mean it's gonna help you or your specific toxins. So the way I like to address this misconception is if you don't know what toxic burden you have, how could you ever guess what is going to be the right application for detox? You have to test first. There is no broad spectrum detox. Like, it doesn't work like that. Like, there are specific things that are detox-specific ways, specific IVs, specific supplementation, but you can't just take like activated charcoal and you you're good to go. You have to know what you have and then focus on those in a scientific and logical manner.