Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue

Rumbidzai Mudzonga

Learn to see your body through a different lens. There comes a point where you begin to sense that what you are experiencing cannot be fully explained by symptoms alone. Patterns repeat, progress feels incomplete, and something deeper is asking to be understood. I’m Dr. Rue, a naturopathic physician focused on chronic illness and integrative oncology, where the work is not about chasing conditions, but about observing the terrain in which they arise.In this space, we explore how the body adapts, how systems communicate, and how environment, metabolism, and lived experience shape what you feel day to day. The body is not random, and it is not working against you. It responds in ways that reflect its internal and external worlds. As you begin to understand those responses, your relationship with your health begins to change.These are quiet, intentional conversations designed to bring clarity without removing complexity. If you have ever felt that your experience does not fit into a simple explanation, you are not alone. This is a place to listen more closely, to reconnect, and to begin seeing what may have been there all along.

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    Meet Glucagon: Insulin’s Partner, Not Its Enemy | Ep 125

    You go to bed, sleep through the night, and wake up with glucose still circulating in your blood. You haven’t eaten for hours. So who’s been keeping the supply going while you were asleep? We spend so much time talking about insulin that it’s easy to overlook the other hormones helping manage our fuel. Glucagon is one of them, and it has an important job. Because even when the kitchen is closed, your body still has work to do. Your brain needs fuel, your red blood cells need glucose, and waiting for you to get around to breakfast isn’t an option. In this episode, we meet the pancreatic alpha cells and follow their message to the liver, an organ that knows how to keep things moving between meals. We begin exploring how the liver draws on stored glucose and how it can make more when needed. Those processes have some rather impressive names, but once you understand what they’re doing, they start to make perfect sense. And this brings us to a question you may have asked yourself: “How can my blood sugar be high when I haven’t eaten anything?” Understanding where glucose comes from is the beginning of understanding that puzzle. Join me as we give glucagon its place in the story and look at the coordination that allows us to eat, sleep, move, and go about our day without having to consciously manage our fuel supply. There’s a remarkable amount happening behind the scenes, and we’re just getting to know the players. Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram | X | New Legacy Natural Medicine

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Learn to see your body through a different lens. There comes a point where you begin to sense that what you are experiencing cannot be fully explained by symptoms alone. Patterns repeat, progress feels incomplete, and something deeper is asking to be understood. I’m Dr. Rue, a naturopathic physician focused on chronic illness and integrative oncology, where the work is not about chasing conditions, but about observing the terrain in which they arise.In this space, we explore how the body adapts, how systems communicate, and how environment, metabolism, and lived experience shape what you feel day to day. The body is not random, and it is not working against you. It responds in ways that reflect its internal and external worlds. As you begin to understand those responses, your relationship with your health begins to change.These are quiet, intentional conversations designed to bring clarity without removing complexity. If you have ever felt that your experience does not fit into a simple explanation, you are not alone. This is a place to listen more closely, to reconnect, and to begin seeing what may have been there all along.