MAHA: The Silver Lining???

While stomping for Kamala Harris, I had to consider the possibility of former president Donald Trump winning the election and returning to the White House. My major consolation was that Trump would honor his commitment and allow Robert F Kennedy, Jr to bring his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement to Washington, D.C.

https://www.mahanow.org

Kennedy/MAHA

Per a MAHA email I recently received:

Kennedy is ready to lead a transformative mission to overhaul America’s public health system. With a vision for bold reform, he’s set to dismantle corruption, restore true science, and address our nation’s chronic disease epidemic head-on.

Here’s the plan:

1. End Corruption in Health Agencies

For too long, Big Pharma and food industry giants have controlled the agencies meant to protect us. We need to sever these corrupt ties and bring the agencies back to the people.

2. Bring Back Real Science

Public health decisions must be grounded in real, unbiased science—not corporate agendas. Agency standards must be rooted in facts, accountability, and true data.

3. Reverse America’s Chronic Disease Epidemic

Chronic illness has soared, especially among our kids. This is a fight to give every child a healthy future.

MAHA is a tremendous and growing movement including a team of politicians like Senator Ron Johnson and the Who’s Who of functional medicine doctors and health and wellness influencers including Vani Hari aka the Food Babe.

The Food Babe

Hari recently collected an astounding 400,000+ signatures for a petition to force Kellogg’s to keep an earlier commitment to her and its customers.

https://foodbabe.com/babyshark/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZdhFa4AE2A8S_cK4S1f4msqkLphHjycshalIqCSPVP7Uys6Hm5hUqttpI_aem_3KSUQvm-gm6SM7lagHlJdg

“In 2015, Kellogg’s announced plans to remove artificial colors and artificial flavors from their cereals by the end of 2018,” Hari’s petition reads. “It's now 2024 and Kellogg’s still sells several cereals with artificial colors and flavors in America, all of which target young children.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/2015/08/05/kellogg-artificial-colors-and-flavors/31165105/

“Even worse, Kellogg’s continues launching NEW cereals for children filled with artificial ingredients, such as Minecraft Frosted Flakes and Disney's Little Mermaid Cereal.”

When executives at Kellogg’s ignored the petition delivered to its front door by Hari, other MAHA principals, hundreds of people, and a ton of press, she called for a boycott which is gaining traction and having an impact.

Calley & Casey Means

Other principals of the MAHA movement include siblings Casey Means, MD, and former food and pharmaceutical consultant Calley Means, co-authors of the New York Times best-selling book, “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Glucose, Metabolism and Limitless Health.”

https://www.caseymeans.com/goodenergy

The siblings have been obsessed with understanding the root cause of the U.S. metabolic disease crisis since losing their mother to pancreatic cancer in 2022. That journey is detailed in Good Energy.

Calley is also co-founder of Truemed, a company that stands to explode if fitness trainers, lifestyle coaches, and other wellness entrepreneurs can get paid via Medicare and even Medicaid, diverting these healthcare dollars from pharmaceutical and other interventions that don’t address the root problems in chronic disease to preventable healthcare options.

https://www.truemed.com/about

“Our mission is to make true medicine affordable,” according to the Truemed site. “Ninety-five percent of all medical costs occur after we are sick. This is so normalized, that most don’t realize how unnecessary it is. True medicine is the antidote. Exercise and supplements are sometimes the best medicines to prevent and reverse the specific conditions plaguing American life.

“To fix healthcare, we need to spend less money on pharmaceuticals and procedures, and more money on exercise, supplements, and lifestyle interventions that heal and keep people healthy.”

Calley is the marketing guru and the tip of the MAHA spear of a proposed massive restructuring of government agencies, healthcare systems, the food industry, and pharmaceutical systems. He helped Senator Ron Johnson coordinate a Senate hearing in September featuring Kennedy, the Calleys, Hari, and over a dozen other top health and wellness influencers. In a 4-hour pitch, they laid out a very compelling, statistics-laced, and story-filled case against the chronic disease epidemic in our country and the systems that perpetuate Americans’ increasing sickness, suffering, and premature death seemingly for profits.

https://rumble.com/v5fy7bv-american-health-and-nutrition-a-second-opinion.html

End the Chronic Disease Epidemic Senate Hearing/American Health And Nutrition: A Second Opinion

I attended this empowering hearing. After learning about the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) provision in early 2022, I became a food justice activist launching a blog and petition: CloseGRAS.com. Decades ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blessed food companies with the authority to decide what additives are safe to use in our food supply in the GRAS provision of a 1958 amendment to a 1938 law.

Fast forward, we now have 10,000+ additives in our food supply—99 percent of them have no studies. According to Kennedy, an estimated 1,000 additives in products on grocery store shelves and in our pantries are deemed unfit for human consumption and banned in other countries. To put this in perspective, the European Union (EU) has 338 additives registered for use in food products.

E3 Signature Programs/Close GRAS

I am elated to be a part of the MAHA movement educating, empowering, and enlisting clients through my E3 Signature Programs including my masterclass highlighting everyday toxins and ways to minimize exposure to them and my Close GRAS initiative to support legislation mitigating toxins.

I live in Harlem where I see the impact of chronic diseases like obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, dementia, and cancer daily. We are dying too young in my neighborhood. So I truly hope that Trump keeps his commitment to Kennedy as his transition team works to build his Cabinet.

Unfortunately, there is already a cloud on the horizon of this silver lining. Last night, I came across this video of great concern to the citizens who voted for Trump at the behest of Kennedy. Donald Trump, Jr. seems to play down Kennedy’s role in the incoming administration.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCJtcPuRNqt/?igsh=YmloaHpmbDdrYnQ2

I know that Kennedy is taking a beating in the mainstream media. I hear about the Trump transition team’s concern that he may not be able to get a security clearance. Apparently, that’s going to matter this time around (shade). If Kennedy merely eliminates conflicts of interest across the board, health outcomes in our country will change exponentially making many of us healthy for the first time. Will Trump honor his word? Stay tuned.