What America Needs for Better Health

First, the problem. Robert Malone, MD explains:

The MAHA agenda as defined in these two key planning documents identifies four potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress:

Poor Diet: The American diet has shifted dramatically toward highly processed foods, leading to nutrient depletion, increased caloric intake, and exposure to potentially harmful or unhealthy additives. Over 60% of children’s calories now come from highly processed foods, contributing to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.

Chemical Exposure: Children are exposed to an increasing number of synthetic chemicals, some of which have been linked to developmental issues and chronic disease. The current regulatory framework should be continually evaluated to ensure that chemicals and other exposures do not interact together to pose a threat to the health of our children.

Lack of Physical Activity and Chronic Stress: American children are experiencing unprecedented levels of inactivity, screen use, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress. These factors significantly contribute to the rise in chronic diseases and mental health challenges.

Overmedicalization: There is a concerning trend of overprescribing medications to children, often driven by conflicts of interest in medical research, regulation, and practice. This has led to unnecessary treatments and long-term health risks.

All indicators show that America’s health is failing, and the American people know we all need a dramatically new approach to healthcare in this country.

Now, Congress is required to do heavy lifting. To summarize:

They are grouped into five categories: 1) Food, nutrition, and consumer protection reforms, 2) Public health, medical, and regulatory systems reforms, 3) Agricultural, environmental, and process deregulation, 4) Agency restructuring and governance reforms, and 5) Oversight and systemic transparency reforms.

Malone has written a long comprehensive list of needed changes, with relevant links. Highly recommended.

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Desperate Doctors

Doctors in the U.S. are demoralized. They are trapped by corrupt institutions in every direction. Calley Means explains:

Doctors have the highest suicide rate and the highest burnout rate of any profession in America. It's not because they're working hard. We all work hard. And we know all missionaries who are working hard. It's that they got trapped in this system with a lot of debt. They came in for the right reasons, and they realized nobody's getting better.

So doctors want to be unleashed. The problem is the standard of care. The problem with that corrupt. medical research that says heart diseases, statin deficiency, and obesity, and Ozempic deficiency, that goes into the CMS, the Medicare-Medicaid guidance.

Now, we spend more on Medicare-Medicaid than the defense budget and the intelligence budget by far, and it's much faster growing. And what we have in America is that doctors are stuck in basically a top-down mandate. They basically are, they're not able to talk to a pre-diabetic child about food. There's no incentive for food. There's a bill right now saying that Medicare needs to cover Ozempic, $1,600 per person. Nothing in that bill for food.

So doctors, what's that? Per month. Per month, $1,600 per month. That's gonna be a trillion dollars. That's why Novo Nordics, this Denmark company, is the ninth most valuable company in the world. 90% of their profits are expected in the United States. Ozempic costs $80 a month in Germany and Scandinavia. It's totally rigged.

So the key point in the first year of getting the research right is that research funds and informs the standard of care guidelines for Medicare and Medicaid that then impact private insurance. It's so simple. But if we have an obesity and diabetes crisis among six-year-olds, maybe it's not working to drug them. Maybe doctors should be recommending dietary interventions.

Maybe we should be incentivizing exercise. You can do that from the medical system if you get the standards of care right. And frankly, a lot of this is bureaucratic. It's not even statutory. You don't even need Congress. We have outsourced billing codes in Medicare and Medicaid to the AMA, which is a lobbying group for pharma. And they outsource to medical groups like the American Diabetes Association and American Academy of Pediatrics that are literally pharma front groups.

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Illustration: Holding Opposing Ideas in One’s Mind Simultaneously

Entertaining conversation illustrating this quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “[T]he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." As Bill Maher argues, McDonalds tastes good even though it it not healthy food. BOTH of these things are true. Same thing for ice cream and many other foods. Most important these days, we can love other people even though we disagree strongly with some of their beliefs and opinions. Really.

But in modern times, many people are not admitting to things they know to be true because it is not approved by their respective tribes. We need to stop allowing emotions and social pressure to prevent us from saying things we know to be true. Only then will we be able to have meaningful conversations with each other.

As I've written repeatedly, embracing membership in a tribe reduces one's IQ by 50 points.

Additional note: I think Casey Means is courageous and brilliant. I highly recommend her new book, Good Energy.

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