Tuesday was a huge day for MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — with the release of the official Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy. Around August 18, a draft of the strategy was leaked to the press, which previewed some of the report's focus: defining ultra-processed foods, targeting pesticides, and increasing public awareness on health aims. 

Tuesday's official document included those things, but was more reflective of the forward-facing alliance of all the government agencies: Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) working in concert with the private sector to change the health outcomes of American children.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission today released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy, a sweeping plan with more than 120 initiatives to reverse the failed policies that fueled America’s childhood chronic disease epidemic. The strategy outlines targeted executive actions to advance gold-standard science, realign incentives, increase public awareness, and strengthen private-sector collaboration.

Chaired by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Commission is tasked with investigating and addressing the root causes of America’s escalating health crisis, with a focus on childhood chronic diseases.

“The Trump Administration is mobilizing every part of government to confront the childhood chronic disease epidemic,” Secretary Kennedy said. “This strategy represents the most sweeping reform agenda in modern history—realigning our food and health systems, driving education, and unleashing science to protect America’s children and families. We are ending the corporate capture of public health, restoring transparency, and putting gold-standard science—not special interests—at the center of every decision.”

The 20-page report is less a how-to guide and more action aims; less specifics, and more strategic. This alone had the usual "experts" upset or deeming the strategy document a "nothingburger." What was expected were more regulations and another food pyramid, and what was delivered was a structural blueprint with each agency responsible for building a section of the structure.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deemed the strategy an "all of government approach" before he outlined what brought the country to this "existential crisis."

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With the sad news was the good news that President Donald Trump is committed to addressing it. 

"I am so grateful that I work for a president that is willing to run through walls to stop this, and to heal our kids.

"These are bipartisan reforms, many of them would be unthinkable two years ago. We are focusing narrowly on nutrition and metabolic health, food quality, cumulative exposures, gut microbiome, precision agriculture and mental health."

Some of the more revolutionary concepts presented involved removing regulations to allow for mobile grocery units, the ability to build markets faster in areas designated as food deserts, and streamlining the process for farm-to-school and farm-to-the-community initiatives. In terms of partnership, the USDA and EPA will work with the private sector and independent farmers to promote and incentivize solutions that will focus on soil health and stewardship of the land.

Both NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Administrator Dr. Marty Makary expressed excitement over finally being freed to address and research root causes of chronic disease, rather than the medication Habitrail currently being employed. Bhattacharya touted the strategy. "What this report represents is a path out of that nightmare scenario," he said.

"How can we keep our kids healthy? What we have in this report is a commitment of this administration to address those questions with gold standard science and to provide answers to them so that, when we look back years from now, we’ll say this was the dark days. And in fact, now America’s children will look forward to a brighter future, healthier, and will live longer lives than we at the table will."

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Makary confirmed this and spoke to the light at the end of the tunnel for medical professionals. 

"The medical community is thirsty to talk about the root causes that we don't talk about because historically it's just not been a part of the NIH agenda until now. The NIH sets the funding agenda for research in every university hospital in the country. And we've not talked about these big issues until today. And that's why I got off the hamster wheel and responded to this vision of Secretary Kennedy and President Trump, and I'm very grateful.

"Now for the first time we're talking about the microbiome, and food as medicine, and micronutrients, and soil, and microplastics. And all types of topics that we know are central to the health of kids — screen time, for instance."

Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neil spoke to the failure of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the need to rebuild trust and refocus the mission.

"Over the past 15 years sadly, CDC presided over rising chronic disease and flatlining longevity. And trust in our public health agencies collapsed. Together we're working to refocus CDC to its original 1946 mission of protecting America from infectious disease. To do so we must earn the trust of the public through integrity and radical transparency.

"We know chronic disease made COVID especially deadly because of the interaction between infectious disease and chronic disease. The tools that are meant to fight disease, such as vaccines, antibiotics, and therapeutics can save lives, but can also trigger adverse events in some patients, and that truth must no longer be denied or distorted. We are bringing transparency and research to this critical connection."

Others in the MAHA Commission roundtable made comments on the strategy document, then the cabinet heads took questions. The three main concerns expressed through the reporters' questions: 1) there was not much in the report that addressed the elimination of pesticides; 2) guns are the number one health concern, yet they were not mentioned in the report; and 3) why is HHS reinventing the wheel on vaccine injury?

EPA's Zeldin addressed the pesticide concern, pointing out that the EPA was cracking down on the importation of illegal pesticides and employing the use of drones and AI to help lessen and even mitigate the need for pesticide use. 

Kennedy spoke to the question of firearms, saying it was, "complex question. It's not an easy question." 

Kennedy made it clear that it's not about the gun: "It's the violence we're concerned with," he continued.

"When I was a kid, we had comparably the same number of guns. Nobody was doing that — walking into buildings and shooting strangers. We had gun clubs at my school. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people."

Kennedy made the connection between the number of firearms in the U.S. being comparable to Switzerland, but that country last had a mass shooting 22 years prior. 

"So, there are many, many things that happened in the 1990s that could explain these. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs, which in our country is unlike any other country in the world… And we are looking at that at NIH. So, we are doing studies now. We’re initiating studies to look at the correlation and the potential connection between over-medicating our kids and this violence."

Kennedy ended with the response to the question on vaccine injury, and it was a mic drop moment.

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"We are recasting the entire program so that vaccine injuries will be reported, they will be studied, that individuals who suffer them will not be denied, or marginalized, or vilified, or gaslighted, it will be welcome, and we will learn everything that we can about them so we can improve the safety of these products."

Critics are latching on to what is missing in the MAHA Strategy document and how Big Ag and Big Pharma co-opted the results. What they fail to see is that the past eight months have been tearing the former agencies and their damage down to the studs; now, with this multi-agency alliance, the rebuilding can finally begin. 

The link to the MAHA Strategy can be found here.

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