Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue
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.
Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue
Latest Episodes
The Frog That Changed Biology | Ep. 062
If life is electric, how would we know? We cannot see the current itself, yet every heartbeat, every thought, every muscle contraction, and every signal exchanged between cells depends on it. From the moment life begins until the moment it ends...
The Spark That Changed Everything | Ep. 061
The body depends on electricity every second of every day. Every heartbeat, every thought, every breath, and every conversation between cells relies on it. Yet despite its central role in human biology, we rarely stop to ask what happens when t...
The Most Important Structure Nobody Talks About | Ep. 060
Every second of every day, your cells are making decisions. They decide when to grow, when to repair, when to adapt, and when to hold back. Yet few people ever stop to ask the obvious question: how does a cell know what to do in the first place...
How Does an Emotion Become Biology? | Ep. 059
Grief is one of the most natural experiences we will ever have. So is sadness. So is fear. When loss arrives, the emotions that follow are not evidence that something is wrong. They are evidence that something mattered. We are meant to feel the...
What Hormones Tell Mitochondria To Do | Ep. 058
A football coach never touches the ball, yet every play changes because of the signals coming from the sidelines. Hormones are much like that coach, directing messages throughout the body. ATP may fuel the players on the field, but mitochondria...