My grown-up MAGA/MAHA wishlist
(Sorry for the reference to one of the worst Christmas songs ever)
Today seems like a very good day for the world.
The inauguration of President Donald Trump (the sequel) has already shaken up not only America but the globe, as the realization of what his big win actually meant. Just a few of the hopes that have been generated include:
Hope that the first release of Israeli hostages the day before the inauguration will be swiftly followed by all of them released back to their families
Hope that social media networks will make good on recent pledges toward more free speech and less (entirely misnamed) "fact-checking"
Hope that organizations will continue stepping back from DEI and its woke obsession with people's ethnicity or sexuality, and shift back to merit-based approaches (best person for the job rather than the most "marginalized")
Hope for a long overdue slashing of government agencies (and subsequent end to some of them terrorizing parents who speak at school board meetings or pray outside abortion clinics)
Hope for more sensible anti-crime policies
Hope for and end to the border madness and a return of America to its citizens
Hope for policies to promote instead of squelch a booming economy
Hope for actual evidence-based health policy and a dismantling of the unholy alliance between Big Ag, Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Medicine
I'm sure you could add more to my list (feel free to comment with what I might have missed).
I want to focus on that last one, though. MAGA has been the President's calling card, but once he brought RFK into his fold, MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — took off on its own groundswell of enthusiasm.
I've got a list for that too. And I'm going to say a lot of things, make a lot of claims. I think they can all be backed up, and below I'll tell you where you can find out for yourself. So — hear me out!
My MAHA wishlist
Every community in America needs regeneratively-raised food. Regenerative means food is raised (animals) or grown (plants) using principles that protect and enhance our soil, which is where our health begins (or ends). Many small farmers are already doing this.
Government should stop subsidizing anyone who fails to implement these practices — i.e., all of Big Ag. Actually, government should stop subsidizing farmers period, but shifting financial support to the poeple who are doing it right would be an enormous step toward bettering our health.
Another bonus of stripping subsidies from Big Ag — they're the ones growing the crops that are most damaging to our health, primarily because they're financially incentivized to use genetically-modified seeds and toxic pesticides which are definitively, absolutely in all of our bodies now.
Yet another bonus of stripping subsidies from Big Ag: A hefty percentage of their crops go to Big Food — that small handful of companies that process "food" that ends up in your grocery store. Products full of toxic seed oils, high fructose corn syrup and other sugars, all designed to be addictively irresistible to consumers (and, pointedly, their children). We've all seen the statistics. America is fatter and sicker than ever, and there's a childhood obesity epidemic.
And here's where Big Pharma steps in, with drugs to help people lose the weight that their terrible diets packed on. Or drugs to calm down the children who can't focus in school because they're eating Froot Loops (sugar and dyes) for breakfast instead of eggs and bacon.
One step in the right direction here would be an immediate ban on pharma advertising (TV commercials). Only two countries allow this, and the U.S. is one of them. The media companies get huge revenue from this — which means they don't report on pharma scandals or problems.
When things get really dire and, for example, cancer is diagnosed, toxic chemotherapy drugs are pushed by a medical establishment that makes a fortune off those few treatments they prescribe (the others being radiation and surgery).
Effective, much cheaper alternatives are actively, maliciously suppressed by Big Pharma. Their tools include denigrating, mocking, or threatening doctors who step out of line. We saw this during Covid. In fact, that's where a lot of us first recognized the rot in the medical establishment. (See "How Covid protocols made us sicker.")
New leadership in health and medical-related government organizations must come from outside the current medical "cartel" — like Trump's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary (RFK), or the National Institutes for Health Director (Dr. Jay Bhattacharya) — both men utterly despised by the medical establishment and accused of that dreaded leftist label: "anti-science."
American medical consumers (that’s all of us) must stop blindly trusting their doctors. Yes, I mean that. Make sure they're worth trusting. Do your own research. Read alternative views. Study how people are getting and staying healthy now. (As promised, information on where to go for that information is at the bottom of this article.)
The uproar over how Covid was mishandled, and the disaster that was the Covid vax, have led to growing awareness that perhaps other vaccines are problematic. And it turns out, there's plenty of evidence that is the case. And that other established "standard of care" medical directives across a wide spectrum of maladies are similarly under-researched and not fully vetted.
Unfortunately, the way research is done in this country is also highly corrupted, with (again) Big Pharma or others with a financial interest funding the studies that doctors rely on for their choices. (It also doesn't help that the most frequent visitors to local doctor's offices are pharmaceutical sales reps.)
We need research to be transparently funded, truly scientifically-based, and results clearly reported. (In many cases, "science" reporters only skim a summary of a study, and then mis-report the findings.) One way to help clean this up is to eliminate the current revolving door between Pharma executives and the FDA or related government agencies.
Make America healthy again
Of course it doesn't really start with President Trump, or RFK. It starts with us, realizing that we've been lied to about the best ways to care for our precious, God-given bodies. You know — that temple for the Holy Spirit? (See 1 Corinthians 6:19.)
Time to take back your temple. My journey has started, and I've seen some positive results, for sure. But I had to step back from what I believed, what the "experts" were pushing, and think for myself.
I implore you to join me.
Where to go for more information
There is just so much out there. I subscribe to dozens of health/medical newsletters, and frankly don't have time to read them all every day. But I keep abreast of what's happening by reading as widely as possible.
Substack (where this blog lives) is home to the most well-regarded "medical contrarians" (most of whom were regular old doctors before they opened their eyes and realized they weren't healing anyone). Some of them are recommended on my blog home page.
Comment if you'd like more links, and I'll respond. Comment or message me if you have specific issues you'd like to study, and I can likely get you started.
Here are fifteen books that you may find helpful in reclaiming your own personal health (most of these are not Christian, so you're likely to find the inevitable reference to "how we evolved." Just mentally insert "how God designed us" and we're good!)
Quick final note: On any topic as broad as health, you're going to find some disagreements. The trick is to study as much as makes sense for you, and see where there's a lot of agreement. For instance, nobody reputable is still telling people to eat seed oils (vegetable oil, canola oil, soybean oil, corn oil, etc.)
Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means
Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin
anything by Dr. Robert Mendolsohn
anything by Dr. Mark Hyman
The Disease Delusion by Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Secrets of Underground Medicine by Dr. Richard Gerhauser
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
Butchered by "Healthcare" by Dr. Robert Yoho
The Circadian Code by Dr. Satchin Panda
Fast Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz (for women)
Eat to Beat Disease by Dr. William Li
Lies My Doctor Told Me by Dr. Ken Berry
A Better Way to Treat Cancer by Dr. Michael Karlfeldt
Lies I Taught in Medical School by Dr. Robert Lufkin and Dr. Jason Fung
Dark Calories by Dr. Catherine Shanahan
I've also covered a few health-related ideas here on the blog.
Can you tell my current research is related to circadian rhythm? 🙂