Why Your Health Should Compound Like Your Wealth with Nathalie Jorge

Dec 22, 2025

Nathalie Jorge, CEO of Companion Health and a pioneer in preventative medicine, discusses the importance of treating health like wealth—built through daily decisions. She reveals how chronic stress can lead to long-term health issues and contrasts conventional medicine with functional care focused on root causes. Nathalie outlines five pillars for lasting health and explains how gut health impacts mood and decision-making. Her insights on the crucial role of fiber and the value of health coaching provide practical steps for reclaiming health.

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INSIGHT

Health Compounds Like Wealth

Health compounds like a retirement account built by daily credits and debits.
Small daily choices accumulate over years to determine long-term disease risk.

ANECDOTE

Family Illness Sparked A Career Shift

Nathalie Jorge traced her career into functional care after her daughter developed cyclic vomiting syndrome.
Dietary and environmental changes improved the child's symptoms and transformed the whole family's health.

INSIGHT

Limits Of Conventional Medicine

Conventional medicine is volume-driven and excels at acute care like surgeries and prescriptions.
It often lacks capacity to address chronic root causes, driving physician burnout and patient dissatisfaction.

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How are daily habits shaping (or sabotaging) your long-term health outcomes?

In this episode, you’re invited to think about health the same way you think about wealth—something that compounds through daily decisions, not last-minute fixes. Also, Suneera’s guest, Nathalie Jorge, shares why chronic stress, burnout, and disease are often decades in the making, and how functional medicine addresses what traditional systems miss.

Nathalie Jorge is the CEO of Companion Health and a healthcare innovator focused on preventative, functional medicine. With decades of entrepreneurial experience, she helps individuals reclaim agency over their health through personalized, root-cause care.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

(02:15) Why health functions like a compounding investment built through daily credits and debits.

(05:45) How burnout in conventional medicine impacts doctors and patient care.

(08:31) The difference between conventional medicine and functional, root-cause care.

(10:04) Why chronic stress has become normalized.

(13:32) The five foundational pillars Companion Health uses to support long-term health.

(14:11) How gut health influences mood, resilience, and decision-making.

(18:06) Why fiber plays a critical role in balancing the microbiome and reducing inflammation.

(23:39) How health coaching provides accountability, clarity, and sustainable behavior change.

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Thank you to Nathalie Simmons Jorge for being on our show!

Connect with Nathalie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliejorge

Learn more about Companion Health: https://www.companionhealthnc.com

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