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

Why Treat if You Can Prevent Disease

22 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video where Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCP discusses framing health actions as treating, preventing, or delaying disease and highlights fasting as an accessible, low-cost approach that can help prevent or delay illness when done safely.

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Treat, prevent, or delay, which is such a great way to think about disease. Right. Like, if you live long enough, you're probably going to get something. But if you're, if you're incorporating ways of being healthy, that can prevent, delay, or treat, it's kind of the order in which I would go for it. Then you're already stacking the cards in your favor. And then when you think about fasting, you go, okay, it's not expensive. You don't need to buy anything, and you don't need to have an advanced degree to do it. You're just doing it.
Yeah. That was something that really excited me about fasting, too, was that it was something that anyone could do as long as they can do it safely from a biochemical health perspective.