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

The Main Reason for Having Metabolic Disease

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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A short conversational clip from a YouTube video (featuring Wendie Trubow, MD) discussing contributors to metabolic disease. Speaker B emphasizes that environmental toxins—more than sugar, sleep, or diet alone—are the primary driver filling the body's stress burden and triggering metabolic dysfunction.

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Talk to me about toxins. Like, what's the, what have you found around toxins and metabolic dysfunction?
Yeah, you know, toxicity, right? This is our jam. I know. You're just such a great educator on this. It's your story. You have a whole book on this. There are many reasons why we have metabolic disease. Many, many reasons why there being a sugar burner, poor sleep, too much stress, poor circadian rhythm, processed foods. But if I had to be pinned to a corner, and Wendy will agree with me and choose one thing that has led to this metabolic disease disaster, it is the environmental toxins that are out there to the level that we have it. It's the number one thing that fills our stress bucket and triggers a cascade of bad things.