YouTube star Doctor Mike has warning for RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement

Social media prima Doctor Mike shared his thoughts successful a caller interrogation connected the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) question and however helium believes the question tin beryllium improved. 

Board-certified doc and YouTuber Dr. Mikhail Varshavski has been outspoken astir his criticisms of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. However, helium told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation that helium would "without a doubt" beryllium unfastened to sitting with Kennedy if fixed the opportunity. 

The Make America Healthy Again committee chaired by Kennedy has been "tasked with investigating and addressing the basal causes of America’s escalating wellness crisis, with an archetypal absorption on puerility chronic diseases," the White House explained to Fox News Digital astatine the opening of the 2nd Trump administration.

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Doctor Mike said of the MAHA movement, "I deliberation the question has ignited a bully speech successful that we're talking astir health. So I similar it for that."

But the doc is skeptical of the movement's methods. Doctor Mike applauded the tendency to bounds the magnitude of ultra-processed foods consumed by children, but believes the problems with these foods spell beyond the constituent list.

"The crushed wherefore ultra-processed nutrient has been truthful harmful to america arsenic a nine is not due to the fact that there's 1 circumstantial chemic recovered successful each of these foods. It's due to the fact that the foods person been engineered successful a mode wherever they marque you consciousness bare precise soon upon eating them, truthful they don't satiate you," helium said. "Two, they're usually bare calories, meaning that determination are not bully micronutrients successful them." 

He believes the overconsumption of these foods is partially liable for the obesity epidemic facing America today, and truthful argues that the occupation is with overconsumption alternatively than simply what is successful these foods.

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"I privation to beryllium arsenic utile and applicable arsenic possible," helium said. "That's what household medicine does. We find applicable solutions for analyzable problems with our patients. And focusing and nitpicking connected circumstantial chemicals won't get america there."

A board-certified household medicine doc with 14 cardinal YouTube subscribers, helium makes videos focused connected providing entertainment, accusation and answering questions connected a assortment of health-related topics. Doctor Mike immigrated to the United States from Russia with his household astatine the property of 6.

Doctor Mike doesn't judge focusing connected ingredients volition effect successful "drastic changes." 

"These manufacturers are inactive trying to get kids to devour ultra-processed foods. That's their fiduciary responsibility. They privation to marque wealth for their shareholders. But what we person to bash is displacement that incentivization distant and really enactment laws connected the books, guidelines connected the book, wherever it's not conscionable a handshake statement and saying, delight signifier retired these ingredients, but marque definite what we're phasing retired volition really help," helium said.

Doctor Mike uses his YouTube transmission to supply wellness accusation to millions of his subscribers, but besides believes authorities agencies request to instrumentality a relation successful acquisition to assistance Americans marque amended dietary decisions. 

"We request to bring backmost acquisition surrounding nutrition labels. And this needs to hap connected a monolithic scale. Like I tin bash it connected my societal media each time long. But if the authorities agencies are present participating successful this research, if it's not making its mode to mediate schools, inferior precocious schools, precocious schools colleges, we're doing a disservice to our children," helium said.

Doctor Mike wrote a Fox News op-ed successful May astir his opinions of RFK Jr. and the absorption of the HHS, stating "our nation’s wellness strategy is successful shambles, and the enactment of HHS plays a pivotal relation successful fixing this disaster."

Doctor Mike alleges that Kennedy, known for his vaccine skepticism, shares aesculapian "misinformation," and doesn't judge helium is the close idiosyncratic to pb the department. 

"Today, I accidental that Kennedy is the incorrect idiosyncratic to pb HHS. The integrity of our nation’s wellness agencies demands enactment grounded successful facts, research, and transparency — not misinformation," Doctor Mike said. 

However, helium is unfastened to talking with him.

"I deliberation nary substance however overmuch you disagree with someone, the archetypal measurement is to find communal ground," Doctor Mike said. "And if there's genuinely an appetite for wanting to marque radical healthier, wanting radical to marque amended decisions for themselves, I'm each for it."

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MAHA moms - HHS property league connected nutrient dyes. (Ashley DiMella/Fox News Digital)

The MAHA committee is focusing connected 4 argumentation directives to reverse chronic disease, including providing Americans transparency connected wellness information to "avoid conflicts of involvement successful each federally funded wellness research;" prioritizing "gold-standard probe connected wherefore Americans are getting sick" successful each federally-funded wellness research; moving with farmers to guarantee nutrient is healthy, arsenic good arsenic affordable; and expanding wellness sum and attraction options "for beneficial manner changes and illness prevention."

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Reached for comment, an HHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "Targeting harmful additives isn’t 'nitpicking,' it is simply a indispensable archetypal measurement successful confronting a breached nutrient strategy that’s fueling America’s chronic illness epidemic. As highlighted successful the MAHA report, our nation's children are progressively neglecting the full foods indispensable for their wellness arsenic the depletion of ultra-processed foods has surged. More than 1 successful 5 U.S. children implicit property 6 are obese—a 270% summation since the 1970s.

"Meaningful, systemic alteration requires much than wide advice; it demands bold enactment and accountability. That is precisely what Secretary Kennedy is delivering."

Fox News' Ashley J. DiMella and Emma Colton contributed to this report.