MAHA Health Report Card Uncensored: The Failures, Wins & Charlie Kirk’s Last Mission | Alex Clark

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Alex Clark was one of the first people I had on this podcast to talk about MAHA from a political and personal perspective. A lot has happened since then, and this conversation is the update I've been waiting to have.

She comes with a report card - wins, losses, and a grade she's willing to give it. There are things she's genuinely proud of. There are things that have made her furious enough to give speeches at major conferences, and create petitions to fire federal officials. She's a lifelong conservative who wants people to vote red - and who also has no problem naming names when the people in power aren't holding up their end of the bargain. That tension is what makes this conversation worth listening to.

She also talks about Charlie Kirk. Not in summary - in detail. Where she was when she found out. What she saw. What she thought in the moments after. And what she's done since, including the fight she promised him she'd finish. That section of this conversation I'll leave to her.

A few of my favorite things we cover in this episode: 

• MAHA report card
• The White House MAHA commission visit: Dr. Oz, Bobby Kennedy, Dr. Makary, Paul Saladino, Vani Hari, Mark Hyman, and Gary Brecka in a room together in the rain
• Biggest MAHA win: the dietary guidelines flipped upside down — trickle effects on hospitals, schools, the military, and pediatrician advice
• Military food crisis: men and women leaving bases to eat McDonald's because the food served had mold in it — confirmed directly by Secretary Kennedy
• Hospital food reform: Trump admin threatening to pull Medicare/Medicaid funding from hospitals that don't clean up their food
• Other wins: Hep B removed from day-one birth vaccine schedule, Operation Stork Speed targeting baby formula, food dyes, and the SNAP soda conversation at the state level
• The GRAS loophole: companies can currently declare their own ingredients safe with zero oversight — closing it would be the most consequential food safety change in decades
• Alex's America Fest speech calling out pesticide liability shields — the White House called within minutes to demand an apology
• The Lee Zeldin petition: why a MAHA activist calling for the EPA director to be fired made headlines
• Glyphosate two-faced: Bayer makes a different, safer Roundup formula for the EU and sells a worse version to Americans — the same pattern as Froot Loops with Kellogg's
• The cotton EO exposed: announced as a MAHA win for natural fabrics — but it was conventional (not organic) cotton, a secret handshake with Bayer to ramp up glyphosate use
• The day Charlie Kirk was murdered: Alex walking out the door for her podcast anniversary dinner, the text from the cameraman, watching the videos refresh on X
• 2027 MAHA zeitgeist prediction: chemicals in clothing — PFAS, microplastics, lead, BPA in baby socks — the US hasn't updated clothing chemical laws since the 1940s
• Alex's engagement to Vance — one of 10 homeschooled kids, more MAHA than she is
• Lunin Water: glass-bottled, BPA-tested, heavy metal-tested — the cleanest bottled water brand she found at Expo West

Products Mentioned:  

• Culture Apothecary podcast by Alex Clark (wherever you listen to podcasts)
• Loonen Water (glass-bottled, BPA-tested, heavy metal-tested still and sparkling water - found at Expo West, available on Amazon)
• Sylvan Table (Detroit area, farm-to-table, seasonal — Alex's best healthy restaurant in America)
• The Charlie Kirk Show (continued by Andrew, Blake, and Mikey at Turning Point USA)

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In Health,

Dr. Will Cole