A Note from the Editor
The team at TopDoctor Magazine recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the future of the American healthcare system and how it affects our readers and American citizens as a whole. Our publisher and editing team, along with our partner Craig Handley from SocialClose Marketing and partners at Strive Compounding Pharmacy Nathan Hill, Zach Shurtleff, and Matthew Montes De Oca, all expressed the desire to change how health and wellness are currently being approached in the United States and recognized RFK Jr.’s concerted efforts to steer the country to better health.
James P. Bradley, a candidate for the US Senate in California, is a close friend of RFK Jr. Together, they are dedicated to fighting for health freedoms in California and across the nation. Mr. Bradley introduced RFK Jr. and provided insight into the ongoing conflicts surrounding government overreach on patients’ and doctors’ rights.
With over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Mr. Bradley has served as a senior executive officer, focusing on restoring the sanctity and protection of patient and doctor relationships while advancing medical innovations. He remains committed to his advocacy work alongside Mr. Kennedy, supporting the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative.
We are grateful to James for coming alongside TopDoctor Magazine and its goal to foster connections within the health and wellness community and empower our readers to make well-informed healthcare and lifestyle decisions by introducing us to RFK Jr.
At TopDoctor Magazine, we realize it will take a bi-partisan, all-hands-on-deck approach to MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN. We appreciate the fact that RFK Jr. was able to lead this effort by reaching across the aisle to Donald J. Trump to work together for the health of all Americans. This interview has the beginning of the answers to America’s health crisis, and we at TopDoctor Magazine are here to spread the common sense message of living a healthy lifestyle.
John Highland: Our doctors have expressed concern that they can’t keep their patients healthy under the current system. Healthcare is set up to be reactive rather than preventative, and there is clear evidence that it’s not the most effective approach.
What role will you play in the administration, and what can you do to change how America approaches healthcare?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: It’s all about addressing the cause of disease rather than simply treating the symptoms. There is virtually one cause of the chronic disease epidemic – corruption. The profit-seeking health agencies and medical cartels are no longer doing public health. Their primary motivation is advancing the mercantile interest of pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and hospital systems on Wall Street rather than actually making America healthy.
I’ve written five books on public health, but I don’t claim any particular expertise. I just want what I’ve written to be used by lawyers with legal expertise to identify and eliminate conflicts of interest in the public health space. Then, we can return to evidence-based medicine and evidence-based science.
J.H.: Given the chance, how would you fix healthcare and eliminate the corruption? What would you do, and what can our vast network help you do?
RFK Jr.: Each of the agencies has different factors of corruption. For example, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) spends about fifty percent of its budget on the industry, mainly on pharmaceutical companies. That is a very damaging conflict of interest where the leaders at that agency and the people working for it are reporting to their real bosses within the company. They are no longer reporting to the American taxpayers but to the pharmaceutical companies.
The Bayh-Dole Act was passed in 1980 and allowed individual scientists and NIH (National Institutes of Health) to collect royalties on drugs they help develop. Now, most new drugs approved by the FDA have come out of the NIH, but they’ve turned from being the gold standard of scientific research agencies to an incubator for new pharmaceutical products. It makes the NIH’s scientists and officials partners with the pharmaceutical industry. The obvious conflicts that arise from that system have subsumed the regulatory function of the agency, with the driving motivation now being for personal and institutional profit.
Let me give you an example of the Moderna vaccine. The NIH owns fifty percent of it, and six scientists at the NIH have margin rights for the patent. Those scientists will collect $150,000 a year, forever, as long as the mRNA vaccine is being sold. Those regulators are paying for their mortgages, children’s education, boats, cars, and alimony payments with the money from the Moderna vaccine. They are supposed to be looking for problems with the products. However, they now have tremendous individual financial incentives to overlook those problems and promote the product, whether or not it is efficacious or safe.
That ends up subverting public health because the regulators who are supposed to protect us have become sock puppets for the industry they’re supposed to regulate and instead partner with those companies to make a profit.
J.H.: If it’s so corrupt, how do you change that?
RFK Jr.: I try to formulate the best solutions for these problems that will not require me to go through Congress, which has its own conflicts of interest. The pharmaceutical companies are now the biggest lobbyists in Congress, about three times as much as the next biggest lobbyists, oil and gas, and then the military contractors. It’s tough to get through Congress, mainly because the pharmaceutical companies totally control the health committees.
Getting rid of that royalty arrangement altogether will be difficult, but through the action of HHS (Department of Health & Human Services) administrators, we can actually reduce those royalties to a few dollars a year rather than $150,000 a year and effectively get rid of the royalty system, which is what I will do.
J.H.: We had Dr. Harvey Reich from Yale quoted in the magazine during COVID-19. Dr. Reich and some of the other best doctors in the world were speaking on the pandemic, and the media and other medical professionals wouldn’t even listen to what they had to say. In fact, much of what he said wasn’t controversial, yet a major social media company shut us down for six months for posting about different modalities that later were proven to help.
How do we make sure that doesn’t happen again? How do we get them to listen to real doctors?
RFK JR.: The censorship that’s taking place in the mainstream and social media is also driven by profits. Most of those companies, including Facebook, get huge revenues from pharmaceutical companies every year. During COVID, they were able to shut down any discussion of alternatives like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine or any of the repurposed pharmaceuticals that were demonstrated to be effective against COVID.
Because of this, the public didn’t hear about alternatives, and doctors were discouraged from using them. Some were even delicensed for prescribing them, all because the pharmaceutical companies in power wanted only one solution: the new COVID vaccine.
That caused enormous damage to public health, particularly in this country. We had the highest death rate from COVID in the world. That’s one of the reasons the United States had 16% percent of the COVID tests, even though we only make up 4.10% of the world’s population. And that’s because Americans were discouraged from doing the things that could actually reduce COVID deaths enormously.
We did everything wrong during COVID. Shutting down the entire country did nothing to stop COVID. In fact, it probably dramatically increased COVID deaths. If we had practiced the standard recognized countermeasures to isolate the sick, protect the vulnerable, and let society keep operating, we could have used this tremendous resource of a worldwide connected internet to identify interventions that were actually working. If we had the fifteen million front-line doctors worldwide receiving uncensored access to information in real-time every day and updating the COVID protocols, COVID would have been nothing more than an annual flu. It was the government intervention that made COVID so lethal.
J.H.: We collaborate with Rob Fletcher at Muscle & Fitness+ and many of the gym owners who work with them. During the pandemic, we heard from them and others in the health and wellness space expressing concern that people couldn’t go exercise. The government shut down gyms, cycling studios, beaches, and multiple outdoor spaces, which were the only way for some people to get outside. We couldn’t go to farmers’ markets to get organic foods, and thousands of chemicals have corrupted the food we could get in the stores that were allowed to remain open.
The problem was that people needed to get out, exercise, get the sunshine, and eat correctly to stay healthy but were restricted from doing so because of government intervention and corruption allowed by the FDA.
What will your first day in office look like? What changes can you make so the American people can eat healthier?
RFK Jr.: We have a whole list of executive orders that will get us away from some of the worst chemical food additives. Hopefully, we’ll get some cooperation from the food companies. For example, Kellogg’s uses chemicals in American food products that they don’t use in Canadian or European products.
Fruit Loops in Canada and the UK have no chemical dyes in them. Those dyes cause ADHD, are carcinogenic and have negative neurological impacts, yet they are still using them here. Kellogg’s promised ten years ago to remove all the chemical dyes from its products, but they never did. They remove these chemicals everywhere else in the world except the United States. They are mass poisoning the American people, knowing that they have an alternative.
Not only will I meet directly with the CEOs of these companies, but I will also get the Attorney General involved, litigating against them for the injuries they’re causing the American people.
J.H.: Big pharma and food lobbyists present one of our political system’s most significant issues.
Are you planning on presenting any regulations to reduce their influence in politics?
RFK Jr.: That is a very heavy list because that’s part of American democracy. You are allowed to lobby your government. We can call them out for what they’re doing. We can expose the corruption and talk about it openly, which is not discussed openly under the current administration. We can inform the American people that these are companies that are mounting a chemical warfare campaign against America’s children. I also appeal to the companies themselves and say, “Let’s figure this out collaboratively so that we don’t have to come after you legally or use various powers to protect our children from your bad behavior.”
J.H.: It’s essential to lead by example. We do an article every month called Super Ager with Dr. Ken Davis, a 70-year-old bodybuilder who is an excellent example of healthy living.
How do we get the rest of the country to move in that direction? What can be done to encourage Americans to take responsibility for their health and live lives that don’t require constant medical intervention?
RFK Jr.: We need to make it a national priority, like my uncle did. He had The President’s Council on Physical Fitness (PCPF). We need to get physical fitness back in our schools as a priority. We need to get our children moving, and we need to get the cell phones out of our schools altogether. Until the bell, there should be no cell phones in schools.
We should have the same recommendation we did for cigarettes for cell phones. The harm from them is well documented. I brought the case to The Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., which ordered the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to start from scratch with cell phone radiation testing. They’ve allowed Americans to be harmed by the dangers of cell phone radiation for 20 years. They haven’t updated their testing since the 1990s, even though there have been over 10,000 studies that show terrible, terrible harm from cell phone radiation.
J.H.: There was an act in 1986 that gives Big Pharma some legal immunity in adverse events.
Is there anything we can do to prevent them from getting away with what they are currently getting away with, like covering up lawsuits?
RFK Jr.: There should be no immunity from liability. It’s a heavy lift for Congress to try to reform the 1986 act because Congress and the Senate are so dependent on pharmaceutical money. There are things you can do within the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in terms of vaccine recommendations that can actually reduce the liability shield coverage for pharmaceutical companies. That has to do with how the vaccines are recommended. If there are advisories that give physicians discretion, that liability shield is removed.
Nathan Hill from Strive Compounding Pharmacy and his team also had the opportunity to talk with RFK Jr. and ask questions concerning compounding and the future of healthcare within the pharmaceutical industry.
Nathan Hill: Thank you for everything you are doing to make America healthy again. Zach and Matt from our executive team and I are all ecstatic about someone who’s finally taking a stand against Big Pharma and government overreach.
We couldn’t be more excited about your stance on what’s been discussed, such as the different chemicals and toxins, seed oils, and harmful chemicals in our environment and food supply. I know many important topics are in the upcoming election, but we’re focused on this nation’s health care. As it’s declining, we’re seeing many regulatory bodies with conflicts of interest.
We’ve seen firsthand as a compound pharmacy that it’s not always in the patient’s best interest; it’s profits over patients. We focus on that as a compound pharmacy that makes personalized medicine.
Your mission here is incredible, and we fully support it. You’ve been a great example of an active lifestyle and staying healthy. Zach, our VP of marketing, has one question to ask you concerning compounding.
Zach Shurtleff: We couldn’t be more proud to be in the position we are right now to help promote this tidal wave of people waking up to the realities of health. You inspire us, and we’re trying to embody those values in the way we run our business.
What role do you see personalized medications and compounding pharmacies play in making Americans healthier? With the changes you’ll be promoting in the future and getting rid of systemic corruption, what role do you think compounding pharmacies will play in helping to make Americans healthy again?
RFK Jr.: I personally use compounding pharmacies. Compounding pharmacies are the ideal in our healthcare system. I think even mainstream medicine is increasingly recognizing that we need to be moving back toward individualized medicine rather than cookie-cutter treatment for diseases. Our bodies are all different, and the cookie-cutter method is just making us all sicker.
The FDA has mounted a war against compounding pharmacies and against products that actually make people better but are outside of the pharmaceutical paradigm. This includes many products that you know to be useful but are banned with no sense at all simply because they challenge the pharmaceutical monopoly.
One example is chelation therapies, which are so critical when our bodies are as overloaded by inflammation and toxic substances as they are now. There are proven benefits of removing lead, mercury, aluminum, other heavy metals, and pesticides from our bodies. Instead of encouraging people to do this, pharmaceutical companies have weaponized the FDA and shut down any competition outside their patented medication. In our new paradigm, compounding pharmacies will play a key role in making America healthy again.
Z.S: How are we actually going to drive this change? How are we going to change consumer behavior? Money is power, right? These Big Pharma companies have so much money, and that’s part of what’s fueling their ability to seize and keep control.
We see an essential role as a compounding pharmacy: to inspire, educate, and inform the average person, like you do, in a way that actually shifts consumer behavior. It changes spending habits and encourages people to go to a compounding pharmacy first instead of following the system.
How should companies like us and compounding pharmacies, in general, partner with you or with others to promote this future we want to strive for? What could a partnership like that look like?
RFK Jr.: What I’d love to see from you is a long list of all the beneficial compounds you are selling that have been banned or discouraged by the FDA over the past decade. The Trump administration is committed to decentralizing medicine, decentralizing monopoly control of our businesses, and encouraging individual entrepreneurs rather than national chains. That is very consistent with the whole concept of individualized medicine.
Decentralizing healthcare puts medicine back in the hands of the individual doctor and creates a good doctor-patient relationship. The doctor can make health-driven recommendations, like writing prescriptions for gym memberships or organic food, and Medicare and Medicaid are going to pay for those things. Instead of paying $1,600 a month for Ozempic, they’ll prescribe organic foods to people and provide medical treatments that are actually going to help them.
One of the phenomenons we saw put on steroids during and after COVID was this centralization and control of actual medical decisions. For over 2,400 years, since Hippocrates, there has been a sacred relationship between a doctor and a patient, where you knew if you went to that doctor, he was treating you as an individual. He was not treating you to make society better. During COVID, we saw that flipped on its head to protect society as a whole and not the individual.
The doctor became the agent of the government and international health care policies. That is very, very dangerous. We saw this in the 3rd Reich in Europe. You get very bad results whenever doctors become the agents of state policies.
In Europe, we saw mass experimentation. We saw doctors given the responsibility of rooting out people with genetic diseases and people with intellectual disabilities. These doctors had to file yellow card reports for patients who were homosexuals or had intellectual or physical disabilities, and the regime classified them as ‘useless eaters’. They were sited for elimination through death camps or work camps. Virtually every doctor in Germany went along with this system. There were no complaints from any of the medical associations or medical schools.
In Japan, the same thing was happening. There was a total centralization of medicine. Virtually every doctor in Japan became involved in the development of bioweapons and human experimentation. Thousands of people had been given deadly diseases, and their body parts were sent around to every medical school. All these doctors in Japan became complicit in experimentation on human beings. This is what happens when you have centralized control of medicine. That’s why this individualized relationship between the doctor and patient is so sacred and important to preserve.
Compounding pharmacies are a critical component of that relationship because they allow doctors to step outside the pharmaceutical paradigm and practice individualized medicine. It’s not something being mass-marketed because it’s a solution to your particular problem. If you go to a compounding pharmacy, they will make something just for you that your doctor prescribes.
If we want a truly democratic society, an entrepreneurial system, and a society that celebrates our individualism rather than a society that says we are all servants of the state, it begins with compounding pharmacies.
Concluding Notes
The team at TopDoctor Magazine has remained committed to the mission to Make America Healthy Again. We are excited that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the country toward a healthier future and invite others to come alongside the health and wellness community to help drive change in the individual lives of each American.
Your vote could make the difference in this election. Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) is a powerful grassroots movement that represents the interests of the vast majority of the people of the United States. If you want to help Make America Healthy Again, please donate today at mahanow.org/donate. Thank you!
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