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

Why Healthy Eating Is Easier With Support

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief excerpt from the YouTube video “Why Healthy Eating Is Easier With Support,” two speakers discuss how a supportive family, especially a spouse, can dramatically facilitate dietary changes after a health diagnosis. Speaker B acknowledges personal privilege that allows unrestricted access to healthy groceries, contrasting the relatively low cost of whole foods (beans, cauliflower, broccoli) with the high expense of the diabetes medication Ozembic. They also highlight practical concerns about medication logistics while traveling—lost luggage, supply continuity—underscoring why a non‑pharmacologic, food‑based approach feels more reliable. Overall, the conversation emphasizes that social support, economic considerations, and logistical ease make healthy eating a more attainable strategy than reliance on costly medication.

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when you got this diagnosis, you weren't in a social vacuum. You had a supportive family who would say, okay, sure, we'll change how we eat so that you can be supportive.
Well, I'm with you on that, but it's interesting that you say that. So yes, you're totally right. Having a spouse in particular who was willing to work with me and, and kind of go down this whole path with me definitely, absolutely positively helped. And I would say, and I, I do recognize this completely, I'm coming from a place of privilege. I can buy any food that I want within reason, the grocery store. But I would say when you look at the cost of Ozempic and you look at some beans and some cauliflower and some broccoli, I'm gonna just say that the, the healthy food's actually a hell of a lot cheaper. And you don't have to worry, oh my God, I don't have my supply of X with me, how can I possibly go on this trip? You know, or crap, they lost my luggage, how am I going to take my meds? And I didn't want that. That was what I was trying to avoid at all costs. And so yeah, having a, having a support system made a very big difference.