Dr. Deanna Minich reveals how colorful plant foods, fiber, and phytonutrients support detoxification, gut diversity, and healthier stress responses.

Dr. Deanna Minich joins the summit to unpack how colorful foods, phytonutrients, and fiber support detoxification at every level—from gut binding and microbiome diversity to gene expression and antioxidant activation. She explores how stress, hydration, cortisol, and lifestyle rhythms shape our ability to clear toxins and stay resilient, offering simple ways to bring more color, nourishment, and balance into daily life.

Deanna Minich, MS, PhD, CNS, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP), is a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, teacher, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries. Throughout the years, she has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™), which has now become oriented towards groups, workshops, and retreats. She is the author of seven consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications. Her academic background is in nutrition science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences (nutrition focus) from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1999). For a decade, she was part of the research team led by the “Father of Functional Medicine,” Dr. Jeffrey Bland, and has served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The Institute of Functional Medicine, as well as on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association. Since 2013, she has been part of the faculty for the Advanced Practice Module in Environmental Health offered by the Institute for Functional Medicine. She has been teaching a graduate-level course in metabolic detoxification at the University of Western States.