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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome back everyone, Doctor John Wykow filling in for Michael
Patrick Seales on Michigan's Big Show. It's a privilege and
a pleasure to be with you today. Many of you
probably have heard my voice on the show. I've even
hosted the show occasionally in the past, but I'm often
a guest and we talk about what's going on in
the world of healthcare, medical issues, and my approach is
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an integrative, functional approach to try to find root causes
of chronic disease. So I'm really excited to speak with
our next guest, Tony Lyons, the director of the MAHA Action,
a national movement dedicated to reversing chronic disease epidemic that
is just causing so much havoc to the US public
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health policy and costs. So please help me join and
welcome mister Towny Lyons. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you so much to us a little bit about
what you're doing with MAHA, and and you know, I
know that I understand the problem we have, but help
our listeners understand the magnitude of really what's going on
with chronic disease in the United States and what your
group and Robert Kennedy and MAHA is trying to do
to change that trend.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, So, you know, we have the sickest people on
the planet even though we spend three times the amount
of money that any other country spends. So we've got
just an embarrassing record. We have millions and millions of people,
millions of children also suffering from a whole host of
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chronic disease that people just didn't suffer from before, and
that all around the world are in just much much
lower rate.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So, you know, we're the richest, most powerful country on earth.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
We should have the best health.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Health outcomes, and we don't. So the issue is, you know,
why is this happening and what can we do to
stop it? And you know, one of the reasons that
it's happening, the most important reason.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Is that so many of our products have become delivering
mechanisms for toxins, whether they are drugs or food, or
pesticides or vaccines or virtually anything else. That we just
have a system that allows big companies to kind of
prey on the American public and to deliver these toxins
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to them for the sole purpose of making more money.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think you're virtually you hit the nail on the head.
When I was early in my practice, I was training
in family medicine. As I got into the real world
of practicing, I found that my ability to help someone
with chronic disease it was really limited. I really the
tool I had was to prescribe more medications, and there
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was no training about nutrition, lifestyle, toxicity, these types of things.
These are just words I just did not know, and
it was very frustrating, and that led me down a
path of functional and integrated medicine. I left the conventional
world twenty years ago and never looked back. But I
think that in my early training, I thought that big
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pharma was really the evil force out there. But as
I've come to learn and what I believe now is
really big food. Can you talk a little bit about
how the big food industry is really contributing to chronic
illness in the United States?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think, well, you know, when you look at at
each of these products and each of these different product areas,
you sort of get the point that it it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Matter what area it is.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What the product looks like, whether it's food, medicine, like
I said before, you know, vaccine, use, pesticides, or almost
anything else, and with food, you know, you see more
and more that people have to focus on what's in it,
not what it looks like. So it's possible to have
a strawberry that's really healthy for you, or to have
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a blueberry or raspberry, but you know, you can have
something that looks exactly the same that just is covered
in toxic cancer causing pesticides, and so it's very difficult
for the public to see the difference. And that's where
you really have to have radical transparency. And that's what
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you're getting with the new administration, is that they're really
looking to inform the public of what's going on and
what the truth is about all kinds of things. So,
you know, the idea that you can look at something
and have no idea what's happening to you or what's
going into your body, that's a very scary thing. So
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we need to inform the public about all kinds of
different things that they've been prevented from from seeing and
from learning. And when you have that, then I think people,
by the millions will start to make better decisions and
will start to really exercise personal freedom, and then I
think they will look at things like health, nutrition, you know,
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physical activity, sunlight, all kinds of things that have such
a big impact on them. And the idea that you're
just going to become more healthy by having a certain drugs.
You know, that I think is is going to have
to change.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There our listeners, We've got about a minute left here.
Tony's just maybe a couple of things that they could
do today to improve their pathway to getting healthy. What
a couple of simple things that maybe they can do.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
You know, one thing I think is, you know that
the simple things really matter, that that everybody ought to,
you know, take a long walk every day. Everybody ought
to get sunlight every day. Everybody should look at the
you know, at the products that they buy, look at
what the ingredients are, and and focus on common sense
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that most of these things really are simple. If a
product has twenty ingredients in it, colors, sugars, all kinds
of things, it's just not something you should be buying.
And it doesn't matter whether it has packaging that looks
healthy or inviting. So, you know, those are things that
I think would get people started.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Easy things to do. I always tell my patients too.
I said, when you buy fresh produce, if you're not
able to buy organic, that's fine, but take it home,
put it in the sink, add a little water and
vinegar soca for a couple of minutes for instant and
you'll just be amazed at the stuff that comes out
of the berries and the fruit. It's just really scary
to see what's on them. Tony has been a privige
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talking to you. How can people find out more about
your Maha Action group.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, they should go to Mahaaction dot com or follow
us on substack, which is the Maha Report.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Thank you, Zary much for joining us on the show again.
God bless you in the efforts that you're putting forward.
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