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(NewsNation) — A salient doc and wellness adept says President-elect Donald Trump's expected wellness attraction appointee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., could assistance code what helium calls "the top epidemic of chronic illness successful the past of humanity."
Dr. Mark Hyman, co-founder and main aesculapian serviceman of Function Health, said Friday that chronic illness transcends governmental divisions and requires urgent nationalist attention.
"Six successful 10 of america person chronic illness. Fifty-one percent of children person immoderate benignant of chronic illness, including obesity," Hyman said connected NewsNation's "CUOMO."
The doc emphasized that caller years person seen melodramatic increases successful assorted conditions, citing a 50% emergence successful bosom disease, 30% summation successful crab and 150% surge successful Alzheimer's cases alongside a 200-300% summation successful pharmaceutical use.
While acknowledging concerns astir Kennedy, who is not a doc and has expressed arguable aesculapian opinions, Hyman argued for systemic changes to America's nutrient and wellness policies.
He criticized the existent system, noting that "ultra-processed nutrient is the No. 1 slayer successful the world" and claiming it causes 11 cardinal planetary deaths annually.
Kennedy has been openly angling for a pb presumption successful 1 of respective nationalist wellness agencies, hoping to marque his “Make America Healthy Again” level a reality, particularly astir immunizations.
The erstwhile statesmanlike candidate said Wednesday determination are “entire departments” wrong the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that “have to go.”
“In immoderate categories … determination are full departments, similar the nutrition section astatine the FDA … that person to go, that are not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids,” Kennedy said during an interrogation connected MSNBC.
Kennedy allies and members of Trump’s adjacent ellipse person started discussing a assortment of places for the erstwhile autarkic campaigner to person power successful a 2nd Trump term, astir precocious astir vaccine data, and are adjacent floating workarounds to the confirmation process connected Capitol Hill if helium faces pushback.
However, many nationalist wellness experts person expressed absorption and are increasing progressively alarmed astatine the imaginable of Kennedy holding immoderate benignant of elder presumption with power implicit the U.S. wellness system.
Some person sought to gully attraction to his much arguable claims astir the subject of vaccinations and an unverified nexus betwixt children, autism and shots arsenic good arsenic his founding of the anti-vaccine radical Children’s Health Defense.
Another starring wellness expert, Georges Benjamin, who serves arsenic enforcement manager of the American Public Health Association, said radical successful the nationalist perceive to Kennedy, adjacent if helium has nary credibility successful the nationalist wellness sector. Amplifying Kennedy’s dependable could pb to distrust of technological experts and undermine important messaging.
Kennedy became peculiarly captious astir vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, erstwhile implicit 1.1 cardinal radical died, according to U.S. wellness records, and partisan fights broke retired implicit things similar disguise requirements and vaccine mandates successful the workplace and public.
“I’m not going to instrumentality distant anybody’s vaccines,” Kennedy told NBC News erstwhile asked whether determination were circumstantial vaccines that Kennedy would privation to region from the market.
When asked if helium would destruct immoderate wellness agencies, Kennedy told MSNBC, “To destruct the agencies, arsenic agelong arsenic it requires legislature approval, I wouldn’t beryllium doing that.”
“I tin get the corruption retired of the agencies,” helium added.
Dr. Mark Hyman says Ozempic is not the solution
Addressing the fashionable weight-loss cause Ozempic, Hyman cautioned against viewing it arsenic a broad solution to America's wellness crisis.
He estimated that providing specified medications to each overweight Americans would outgo astir $5.1 trillion, arguing alternatively for dietary and systemic changes to the nation's nutrient system.
"The occupation is we unrecorded successful a toxic nutrient situation wherever the atrocious prime is the casual choice, and the steadfast prime is the hard choice," Hyman said. "That needs to stop, and that tin beryllium stopped with policy."
NewsNation spouse The Hill contributed to this report.
