RFK is the New Secretary of Health and Human Services, and there’s a substantial amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the air. Is it warranted? Well, we’re gonna discuss that. Hello, welcome to the Cash Practice Solution Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Jay. Today we’re looking at MAHA’s impact on cash practices.
Let’s get going. What are RFK’s primary targets and how does it affect cash practice? Well, number one, he’s really focused on food and nutrition. He wants to get chemicals and pollutants out of our food supply, as contributors to chronic disease. Kennedy’s been known for a long, long time. I mean years, decades for touting healthier diets. He’s all about it himself. And now he’s got Cali and Casey Means and their work discouraging seed oils. He’s looked at pesticide heavy agriculture with all sorts of serious allegations and he just wants a more farm to table lifestyle. That’s what he’s kind of looking for. If you wanna think of a simple way to put it. No matter what, the things he’s saying are radical from the industry’s point of view, and he’s gonna have some serious challenges balancing the industry’s interests with what he considers the public health goals. He says that if we improve food in the United States, it’s gonna be an easy fix.
First of all, we’re just gonna say, what do the Europeans do? They ban so many ingredients. They’re just normal, red 40 and the like and this is the part that I think is fascinating because he’s not beating around the bush. He says the reason for it is corruption. It’s not because it’s convenient or a better choice or it’s just corruption.
He says the food industry and big ag producers control the FDA, so they’re not worried about public health. They’re worried about advancing the mercantile interest of those corporations, and he’s not pulling any punches. I mean, he’s going for it. So what we’re gonna see is food may come become a little bit more expensive, but it’s gonna get a lot easier to avoid toxins and create a culture of healthy eating, which we try to do every day.
And if in your practice you’re doing a health and wellness practice, I think it’s kind of the scourge of a health and wellness practice. It’s so hard to get people to that point. Because it’s difficult to find food like that, thats reasonably priced. You can’t do it. It’s hard. What’s gonna happen is that your patients will want nutritional counseling and support, which will create a tremendous segue into wellness programs at every level.
We talk about eating the rainbow and five servings a day of vegetables and fruits and if you’re like I am in my practice, patients don’t do it. But if we have an entire culture shift where that farm to table lifestyle becomes the focal point of what our administration’s doing, I think you’re gonna see changes and you need to be positioned for that.
You need to be ready to provide patients with that and your marketing materials, your in-office materials, nutritional supplementation, of course, will come along with that, but having a dietary protocol and eating plan for patients at every level is going to be something that’s really, really supported through this new MAHA movement. And we will be the beneficiaries in cash practice, which is primarily the center of health and wellness in this country. It’s gonna be an amazing opportunity. His other thing, I’m gonna mention a few of them, but his other biggie is ending the epidemic of chronic disease. Ending chronic disease was one of Kennedy’s first points in his independent presidential campaign before he joined up with Trump. Now as the HHS secretary, he’s promised results in two years. Like you’re gonna see a change in the rate of chronic disease in the United States in two years. And I think that’s a bodacious claim it’s one thing, to be able to see it is gonna be another. He says, during COVID-19, when we had all these excess deaths in the United States, it was because we have so many people with chronic illness, so many people who are obese and hypertensive and heart disease and uh, you know, severe diabetes. And outside of that, he said the Covid death rate would’ve been much lower. And I think I agree with him. He blames the disaster on the CDC, and he’s now over that as head of HHS. He’s over CDC and FDA, which brings me to my next point. He says, we have the sickest children in the world. The autism rate in American kids in his generation was one in 10,000. Now it’s one in every 34. You wanna talk about a motivator for people to say, wow, we need to do something about this chronic illness. So the effect, it will improve awareness of what it is to be healthy. So I had a patient say to me yesterday, you think it’s just because I’m getting old, I can’t remember things as well, I never allow that to be the case.
I know it’s not just because you’re getting old, you have a functional deficit. If people don’t know that [memory loss] is not an expected outcome of aging, they’re just gonna go with it. And I think with this process, with Kennedy being kind of beating the drum, that chronic disease is not normal. It doesn’t happen everywhere in the world. It’s really here that we have the highest rate of it. There will be an improved awareness of what it is to be healthy. So our whole integrative medicine, functional medicine, health and wellness will have a considerable opportunity and an impact because patients will be looking for it, acknowledging that it’s not really normal to be chronically ill, until you’re close to death, that’s not normal. And people live 10 or 20 or 30 years chronically ill, and that’s not good. They’ll recognize the risks. We’ll be in a position to be able to intervene, cap scores, stress tests, whatever we need to do to get it done and provide them with programs that are gonna help them get through that.
HHS controls CDC and the FDA. Yes! The FDA policies are under the gun. Kennedy reviews alternative health treatments as an important part of what the United States needs to get past the chronic illness problem, right? He is critical of the the FDA’s approach, especially with the alternative treatments like psychedelic treatment for post-traumatic stress, stem cell therapy and supplements. Psychedelics,you can see where there could be some confusion, but the data shows that it helps, that it’s undeniable. Stem cells, incredibly safe. It’s hard to imagine how you could create a rubric where stem cells would be considered a drug, but the FDA has done that. Your own stem cells, not somebody else’s, your own stem cells and supplements, which we know, properly made, are extremely safe.
He described the FDA as resistant to health innovations and claimed the quote, the FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This is the part that it would take a very spirited gentleman to do this. He wrote that employees involved in what he described as a corrupt system should preserve their records and prepare to be ousted.
So he means business. I mean he’s going after it. If we’re wise in cash practice, we’ll be able to move into that space. We’ve managed a lot of it quietly in the background, because we can’t make too much noise or you’ll get unwanted attention. So, Kennedy’s rhetoric questions FDA approved products like antidepressants and the information on vaccines. But all the experts in the world of regulation argue that it’s gonna be almost impossible. Untangling the FDA’s tentacles is gonna be a huge legal lift, but one could dream. I believe that this year stem cells are gonna be liberalized, I think you’re gonna have a lot more opportunity in the United States, using autologous stem cell. Stem cell from the individual themself, from live births, from healthy children, and from umbilical stem cells. With off-label use of medications, especially there, there have been lots of drugs that have been either outright prohibited, like GHB, which was a sleep medicine, which was just crushed by the FDA for no good reason. Or those suppressed like DMSO, which is used for joint pain and all sorts of circulatory problems and kind of a miracle cure, but it works. And, most recently peptides and we know that peptides are a game changer. All the GLP ones and all the stuff we’re seeing that is just life changing. They’re gonna become much more readily available and I think within a year. Kennedy’s timeline says that it’s gonna be within a year. [Good practitioners] We need to be positioned for that. The opportunity is if you wanna have access to knowledgeable clinicians who are free to deploy alternative treatments that don’t carry the risk of the regulatory system’s wrath. We’re there. I mean, we are there. We are gonna be able to have our fellow physicians and practitioners in a position where they can actually do work and they’re not gonna get beat up for it. They’re not gonna wind up in a courtroom or in a state capitol before a medical board, because the federal activity will be to uncensor and promote, which will make a very big difference.
If you wanna learn more about that, there’s a Make America Healthy again website. It’s mahaaction.com. It’s real simple. MAHA. A-C-T-I-O-N mahaaction.com. And they’ve got their whole Kennedy’s whole presidential team is there running the Maha thing. And it looks really good. They’re making a really serious effort.
And on that note, if you’re new to this kind of practice and you want to be prepared for what’s coming and it’s coming, no matter what anybody says, it might be a big lift. It might seem like it’s really gonna be hard to get there but we will get there. It’s going to happen. It’s gonna happen fast. If you’re new to this kind of practice and you want to take that quantum leap we have a practice platform that completely replaces a traditional EMR it uses smart intake, and a very responsible form of AI to optimize cash practice.
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