President Donald Trump’s health authorities want to take vitamins.
MEHMET OZ, a candidate for Medicare & Medicaid Services Center, promoted So So’s health status on behalf of a supplier with a financial stake by feeding the calf on the camera. Potential surgeon Janette NesheiWat sells his supplement.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Minister of Health and Welfare, has taken more vitamins than he can, and suggests that he will alleviate restrictions on vitamins and muscle construction peptides.
Affection of supplements can result in practical results in American health. In the late 2024 campaign, Kennedy insisted on the federal government. There was a wage “Public Health War” by suppressing various alternative therapies such as nutrients and peptides.
In February Trump announced Along with Kennedy, “American Healthy Again Commission” requires other ways for “fresh accidents” for nutrition, “healthy lifestyle” and chronic diseases. Kennedy spokesman did not respond to many requests.
Peter Cohen, a general intern at Cambridge Health Alliance, who studies supplements, said the supplement could help to help develop fetal development or prevent anemia. “I recommend supplements routinely,” he said.
Nevertheless, “there is no need for most of the use to improve or maintain health.” Light regulations allow supplements to make a claim for their benefits without sufficient evidence, COHEN said. “Before the FDA is sold, the supplement does not need to be tested or judged by the FDA.”
Consumer watchers, regulators, and researchers reported examples. Find traces lead and Other toxins In the supplement. And A 2015 Analysis I thought that about 23,000 emergency room visits visited for supplementation from the Federal Health Research Institute. (Responsible nutrition council, industry lobby group, I challenged the resultSome visits claimed that it was because of cancer and homogeneous drugs that could not be purchased without prescriptions that should not be included.)
Nevertheless, there are many Americans Preparation. The Internet forum is filled Bio hackerWeight Lifters and alternative medical lovers applauded Kennedy’s health minister with supplementary producers. Many hope to loosen their recognition as an unfair limit to this product.
Natural Products Association paid Trump’s health candidate as a victory of “health freedom”.
“For the first time in our industrial history, the best medical political nominations think it is important that Americans have the right to use nutritional supplements.” I wrote Kyle TurkGovernment vice president of the Association.
The world of supplementary users and Trump teams actually overlap when it is skeptical of traditional health systems.
“The use of supplements is part of the health populist movement,” said Callum Hood, a research director of Digital Deathing Center, a non -profit organization that pointed out influential people who study online disadvantages, criticize existing public health measures and provide alternatives such as supplements, powder or peptides.
For many supplementary lovers, Kennedy’s view is consistent with their dislike of their big pharmaceuticals and big food. It is characterized by corruptProfit from American health.
Kennedy promotes supplements as a key part of health. In an interview, which was recorded this month as the measles increased from measles that started in Texas, doctors said they had “very good results” by treating patients. Daegu liver oilIt can be delivered in the form of pills with steroids and antibiotics. (Separately he wrote In Fox News Parents added that they should discuss vaccination with doctors. “Vaccination decision is a personal decision.)
Kennedy said, “What we are trying to do is actually restoring the government’s beliefs, helping us help them, especially not directing what they need to do,” Kennedy said. Fox News Interview.
Kennedy talked about federal officials who deliver vitamin A to the affected community. He has made his past remarks as a former group of children’s health defense chairman.
“What is measles?” that To the audience At the Amish Country Fair in Pennsylvania in 2021. “Chicken soup and vitamin A. and none of them can be patented.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) advises people who contract measles to take vitamin A. Vitamin A can prevent blindness and death, but strongly urges all children to be vaccinated against the disease.
The image of natural well -being has long been an organic supermarket corruption, but it is a liberal type, but the use of supplements is both party and now slightly more popular with the Republican Party. According to a poll in IPSOS and AXIOS in December 2024, 63%of Republicans have consumed supplements every day or most of the day, with 58%of independent and 52%of the Democrats.
The supplementary company sometimes explicitly judges right -wing customers. The day before Trump’s inauguration, the brand Nugenix posted an advertisement on social platforms. X The slogan, “T-level again, makes the T-level great again.” (Adaptive Health, the parent company of Nugenix, did not respond to the request.)
Some industry observers believe that there was a movement of the infectious diseases. John Roulac, a California -based supplementer, said, “In the Covid era, the Democratic Party has become a science and founding party. In his words, the party and the elected officials were more likely to trust FDA and other large corporations and to discount potential contributions to health from supplements.
Roulac said, “There are people involved in healthy drugs and healthier lifestyle choices, whether they eat organic foods, use herbs, or take vitamins under RFK.
Kennedy and others in Trump’s orbit have found a especially warm reception among the largest supplement evangelists. Influential people who promote individual responsibilities in the form of vitamins and other products have provided many broadcasts to Trump’s newly painted health officials as the key to health.
Popular Podcast Host in 2023 LEX Fridman’s SHOW, KENNEDY Acclaimed It was in “good shape” and partially due to his vitamin therapy. “I eat a lot of vitamins,” he said. “I can’t list them at all because I can’t remember them at all.”
In November, Oz approved Kennedy’s name on his tiktok channel and in his next post Said to the viewer They need vitamin’s “alphabet soup” to protect the brain and to strengthen the organs.
Oz, who did not lead the CMS at the time, pointed out vitamin’s “trusted source”: iherb.
Federal Ethics Rules usually prohibit public officials to use their office for financial benefits. Last month, A A letter to the ethics official of the health institutionOz said he is an advisor to Iherb and has a financial stake in the company. He wrote not only plans to resign and sell from iHerb when confirmed, but also to re -examine himself from policy issues directly related to the company “until I sell it.”
Oz is expected to appear for the Senate Confirmation hearing this month. The spokesman for OZ did not respond to many requests.
Nesheiwat, who chose Trump’s surgeon, promoted BC boost, a combination of vitamins promising to strengthen the immune system and energy. The supplement that the advertising claims formalized by NesheiWat themselves supports her name and portrait in the package.
Read NesheiWat’s marketing quote.
The surgeon, who is considered a “national doctor,” does not establish a policy, serves as a spokesman for public health. In the BIDEN administration, the surgeon Vivek Murthy briefly explained the disease of alcohol, loneliness and social media.
NesheiWat, whose financial disclosure has not yet been disclosed, did not respond to her website and did not reply to the request for an opinion.
that It is unclear what movement is The executive may take it to strengthen the supplement. Industry officials say that the government hopes to make it easier for the government to buy vitamins and other products using health savings accounts. The FDA can also determine the manufacturer to make a more aggressive claim to the product’s health benefits.
Contrary to Kennedy’s claim to the “public health war,” the recent supplement industry has seen that property is increasing, and there is a lack of attempts to increase regulations by the pressure of supplement manufacturers.
According to the Nutrition Business Journal, the customer said, “The profits of the supplemental industry have soared because they have invested more in health. KFF Health News said that revenue has continued to increase since then, surpassing the initial industry’s expectations and increasing product sales to about $ 70 billion annually.
In the 1990s, one of the FDAs that wanted to suggest more stringent regulations in the business of a company was defeated by the industry and customers after lobbying the parliament.
“This was one of the biggest campaigns I can imagine,” at the time David Kessler, a FDA commissioner. Oral history.
Grace Sparks, a survey analyst at KFF Health News, provided research for the IPSOS-AXIOS poll.
KFF Health News It is a national newsroom that produces in -depth journalism about health problems and is one of the core operation programs. KFF Independent sources of health policy research, polling and journalism.
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