Detox Your Body: The Hidden Toxins Destroying Your Energy with Wendie Trubow, MD

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

My guest today, Dr. Wendie Trubow, went to France in 2019 for the trip of a lifetime.

But when she came home, her hair started falling out, she gained weight, and had a rash all over her face. She tested her thyroid (perfect), hormones (perfect), and gut (great).

Ultimately, she realized that when Notre Dame burned, it released 500 tons of lead into the air and soil, and she had slogged through that dust for a week. Testing showed that her lead levels were incredibly high.

Her biggest insight was that all the modern medical issues she treated as a functional MD—obesity, diabetes, cancer, insomnia, endocrine dysfunction, gut dysfunction—could be tracked back to toxic exposures, creating a state of inflammation.

Dr. Trubow believes your particular "soup" (genetics, lifestyle, early childhood, antibiotic use, diet, sleep, stress, relationships, self-talk, movement) determines how inflammation manifests in you.

Wendie's story is really incredible, and I think you'll love this podcast.

This episode was first released in Jan 2023

In this podcast, Dr. Trubow and I discuss:

How toxins are related to stubborn weight: they get stored in fatty tissue when you exceed your body's ability to excrete them
Studies show that levels of persistent organic pollutants ("forever chemicals") in the bloodstream during weight loss predict weight regain!
Alcohol is an acute toxin that takes priority in the liver—your body stops all other detox behavior (hormone processing, pesticide excretion) to focus exclusively on processing alcohol
By the time most women leave the house, they've put over 200 chemicals on their bodies, from shampoo, conditioner, face products, makeup, moisturizers, and perfumes
Your bed is a hidden toxin if it contains flame retardants—these are endocrine disruptors, mess up your thyroid and female hormones, and raise your risk of estrogen-dependent cancers
Never ask "What-if?" questions…ruminating about uncontrollable situations sends your body into fight-flight-freeze and shuts down detox
New cars contain over 300 chemicals, and even new clothes are sprayed with chemicals—wash clothes before you wear them, and shop consciously
It's more expensive to react to disease than prevent it…if you could avoid cancer by spending $10 extra a day, it would be the right financial move; cancer costs most people over $100,000 per year to treat

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. With me today is Dr. Wendy Trubo,
0:13.9	who is a gynecologist by training and went on to be a certified functional medicine practitioner
0:20.3	who now specializes in toxins. And that's what we're going to be a certified functional medicine practitioner who now specializes in toxins.
0:24.2	And that's what we're going to be talking about on today's show.
0:27.2	She is absolutely brilliant at what she does in this field of toxins and detoxification.
0:34.4	And this is a really fun, wide-ranging conversation
0:38.3	where in some cases I play devil's advocate
0:41.3	and ask some challenging questions.
0:43.3	And I think it broaches a lot of very interesting territory
0:47.3	in this realm of toxins and detoxification.
0:50.3	And I think you're gonna get a lot out of this discussion,
0:53.3	particularly because she has some
0:55.0	fairly novel takes and creative takes on different things that are toxic and that are affecting our body in a toxic way that you may not be used to hearing in this sort of context.
1:13.8	She is also the co-author of Dirty Girl, which is probably the best title of a book I've ever heard. Ditch the toxins look
1:20.3	great and feel freaking amazing. And she's been regularly featured in Mind, Body, Green, and the
1:26.3	Huffington Post. So enjoy this conversation. I think you're going to get a lot of value from it. So welcome, my friend, to the show. Such a pleasure to finally have you on. Great to be here, Ari. Happy New Year. Yeah, happy New Year to you. You are my first podcast recording of the new year. Oh, no pressure. Yeah, I know, right.
1:45.1	Stay tuned, folks.
1:46.6	So let me ask you this.
1:48.1	You are a gynecologist by training.
1:51.0	You went into functional medicine later on.
1:54.6	You became a certified functional medicine practitioner.
1:58.0	And now a big focus of your work is toxins and detoxification.
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