By
🔴 Watch the extended version of this episode: https://ept.ms/3Pv0RaY
This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Calley Means. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on January 7, 2025.
🔵 Try Epoch Times now: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5
“We’re being lied to about chronic disease. That’s 90 percent of medical spending—92 percent of American deaths are chronic disease. Only 8 percent are infectious. And we have this system that profits from that. But what we could do, which is what President Trump and Bobby Kennedy talked about, is get to the root cause… We spend $4.5 trillion on medicine right now.”
In this episode, Jan Jekielek interviews Calley Means, co-author of “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health.”
He has been working in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement on a blueprint for reforming the public health establishment.
Calley Means: ”What’s happening right now is one of the most important moments in American history…. What’s happening now is absolutely historic. We’re going to see the biggest flurry of vigor and executive action, potentially in American history, at least since the New Deal. There is a mandate from President Trump, not a word of ideology. It’s curing the military industrial complex, the healthcare industrial complex, the education industrial complex. There is a huge directive to be disruptive. This is a once in a lifetime, once in a century, situation happening with the transition.”
CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:01 – The Problem with Chronic Disease and the Medical Industry
0:00:39 – Calley Means’ Background and Transition
0:02:59 – Discovering the Root Causes of Chronic Illness
0:05:00 – The Trump-Kennedy Connection and the MAHA Movement
0:09:03 – Transparency, Flexibility, and Trusting Patients
0:14:21 – The Massive Impact of Healthcare Inflation
0:16:16 – Key Reforms to Shift Incentives and Empower Doctors
0:18:54 – Doctors Profiting from Sickness and Resisting Change
0:20:00 – A Historic Moment for Disruptive Change
How complex drugs riddled with side effects are prescribed like candy: “If you have high cholesterol, statin doesn’t cure the issue, you know, high blood sugar, Metformin, you’re a little depressed, SSRI, these drugs are being prescribed like candy right now. It’s making money. It’s very profitable to really ignore the root cause and just be managing these conditions for life.
Means about vaccines and drugs: “It is actually wild when you dig into this, how little information is actually out on the vaccines we’re giving our kids, how stigmatized and attacked anyone is for even asking questions. Bobby Kennedy with President Trump are going to do unbiased research on every single area that impacts American Public Health. That’s what they’re going to do, and it’s going to be much, much wider than vaccines. You know, 50% of pharmaceutical trials that underlie FDA approval for this, for the $4.6 billion excuse me, the 4.6 billion prescriptions Americans get per year aren’t able to be replicated.”
“And then we have junk science. Just as a demonstrable fact, the two largest vaccine makers in America have settled $5 billion in criminal penalties. You know, you can have great public health advancements and still be skeptical and continue to do science. So that’s the big agenda for Trump. It is transparency. We’re going to let information out. We’re going to do new research on why we’re getting sick. We’re also gonna release the existing research. We’re gonna stop infantilizing the American patient. We’re gonna trust Americans that they’re trying to make the best decisions for their health and their kids.”
Calley Means about his former lobbying career and how he say corruption first hand: “When you’re done with the campaign, you go and lobby, you go consult, and you go back and forth, and you find yourself at these public affairs and lobbying firms… I was working with the Obama administration and Obama campaign people to help the biggest spenders in DC, pharma and the healthcare industry and so you just kind of find yourself there, and everyone’s talking about innovation and helping these industries. But, you know, I found myself helping food companies pay the NAACP to say that taking Coke and soda off of food stamps was racist. I found myself working for opioid makers, lobbying for pharma to pay off researchers to say that opioids weren’t addictive. I mean, the reason the food industry spends 11 times more on nutrition research than the NIH and the lifeblood of scientific research comes from the pharma industry. They’re not trying to advance unbiased scholarship. They’re trying to get a result.”
🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and special events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter
💛 Support us 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders
————————————————-
© All Rights Reserved.
Comments