For over three decades I have been practicing holistic medicine. Over this time period, I have seen a steady, steep decline in the health of our population. During these years, I have been writing books, articles and newsletters about why Americans are so sick and what we can do to reverse this trend. If we do not reverse this decline, I am certain that I will witness the fall of our country. We simply have too many sick people, both children and adults. Either we change course with what we are doing with health care or we will go bankrupt. Sometimes it seemed so bleak, especially during the COVID-19 crises when the Powers-That-Be repeatedly lied to us about vaccines, masks, therapeutics, and social distancing . Those who spoke out against government tyranny were silenced with the full power of the US Government coming after them.

The times are-a-changing.

Now, I am more excited than ever that we will conquer America’s declining health issues.

On Thursday May 22 2025, I and my daughter Dr. Jessica Brownstein, were honored to be a guest of Secretary Kennedy (RFK Jr). at the White House for the official announcement of the first Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report. [i] President Trump issued an executive order (1412) February 13, 2025 to establish the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. This study was to be completed within 100 days of the order. This presentation was the culmination of a lot of hard work.

The first part of the meeting consisted of RFK Jr. introducing the report and the commission members who assisted him. The report is a 68-page document with over 500 footnotes. RFK Jr. stated that this report is a call to action to make our children healthy again. He pointed out that the declining health of our children is an existential crises and how the US, as a country, fares much worse on every single healthy indicator compared to other Western countries. The MAHA report identifies four potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease:

· Poor diet

· Aggregation of environmental chemicals

· Lack of physical activity and chronic stress

· Overmedicalization

Our children are sick. Over 70% of teenagers cannot meet federal physical activity guidelines. Most do not qualify for military service as they are too sick. More than 1 in five US children are obese. In our children, obesity has increased by 270% since 1970. Our obesity rate is double that of our G7 peers. Over 350,000 US children have diabetes. Autism, which used to affect 1:10,000, now affects 1:31 by age 8. There is much more bad news about the health of our children in the report. I was not surprised by any of it—I see it occurring daily in my practice.

There are many other issues identified in this report. This report is accurate and is a good starting point. I encourage everybody to read this report and I hope every school in the US makes reading this report a part of the educational process.

RFK Jr. let each commission member speak about their thoughts about this report and the health of America’s children. It was mind-blowing that every single commission member—including five (FIVE!) cabinet Secretaries as well as other high-ranking officials were all on the same page that our children’s health is at a crossroads and we need to take drastic action to reverse the downward spiral. It took me by surprise how united these high-ranking officials were. It feels as if the majority of President’s Trump’s cabinet is fully on-board with Making America Healthy Again.

The Commission members talked about their children (and grandchildren) and how important it was for their children to lead healthy lives. Everyone should watch these proceedings. I find it hard to believe anyone could object to identifying the underlying causes of the declining health of US children and developing solutions to the problem.

The report also mentioned the growing childhood vaccine schedule. Before 1986, during the first year of life, US children were given three injections. Now, they are subjected to 29 shots—including in-utero vaccinations. Show me where our children are healthier for expanding the vaccination schedule nearly 10x. Just as I wrote to you in my last blog post, there are zero long-term, randomized, double-blinded placebo-controlled studies of any childhood vaccine as well as zero studies looking at the safety of the entire childhood vaccine schedule. We keep increasing the number of vaccinations of our children without properly studying whether it is safe to do so. That is not science.

Vaccine supporters state that it is unethical to withhold a vaccine that has known benefits, therefore we cannot do randomized, placebo-controlled studies. We should have done the appropriate studies before they were licensed, but that ship sailed. Now, we can do large studies comparing vaccinated with unvaccinated populations. These studies have been completed in smaller populations, and they consistently report unvaccinated children suffering less chronic illnesses such as asthma, eczema, allergies and neurodevelopmental disorders when compared to the vaccinated. If the Powers-That-Be don’t want to do the proper randomized, blinded studies, then the next step is compare vaccinated with unvaccinated populations. We have the data to do that, and the CDC was tasked with doing such studies decades ago but has failed to do so. With RFK Jr. at the helm, I am sure such studies will be forthcoming. Moving forward, any new vaccine should be required to undergo the appropriate safety study before licensure.

The MAHA report also detailed the corporate capture of our Federal agencies. There are too many ties to Big Food and Big Pharma in previous administrations. The corporate capture is ending.

The report mostly deals with identifying underlying issues causing our children’s health crisis. It provides guidance on how to reverse this decline such as:

· A shift to whole, unprocessed foods

· Unbiased research independent of corporate influence to restore trust in basic science

· Encouraging exercise, less screen time

President Trump acknowledged the declining health of our children. He stated that this was unacceptable, and he tasked RFK Jr. for finding the cause and providing direction to get out of this crisis.

For over three decades, I have been lecturing, writing and studying about how to help my patients become healthy. Over those decades, I felt like I was spinning my wheels as I could clearly see the declining health of our country. During my medical career, America has become sicker and sicker while spending more and more money on health care. Until now, health care has been mis-named. It was really sick care. Now, thanks to RFK Jr. and President Trump, we have the Federal Government acknowledging the problems and developing a cogent plan to provide a new path so that we can Make America Healthy Again.

On Thursday, May 22, things changed for the better. Our federal government has decided, for the first time, to work for us and to figure out how to make us healthy. It was a proud moment for Drs. Brownstein and all Americans.

I am excited about the changes coming. We can do better and we will do better. I am sure of that.

Let’s work together and we can solve our sick culture problems. Failure is not an option. I am ready to do my part!

LET’S GOOOOOO!

~Dr B