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

Why Your Health Starts In Your Gut @designsforhealth3090

21 Sept 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief discussion, the speakers emphasize that the gut microbiome vastly outnumbers human cells and plays a central role in overall health. They list the microbiome’s contributions—including production of tryptophan, vitamins, and minerals; assistance with digestion; modulation of mood; and influence on insulin resistance—asserting that it is implicated in virtually every physiological process. The concluding statement reinforces the core message that health fundamentally begins in the gut.

So for our audience, we have more microbiomes, bacteria in our gut, than we have cells in our body. So this is something that's super, super important to our health. They make not only the tryptophan amino acids, they make a lot of vitamins, minerals, break down, help digestion, help mood, help insulin resistance, everything. You name it, microbiome has been implicated in just about everything.
And that's why your health starts in your gut. That's why we say that for the listeners.