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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.doubled down on his support for non-pharmaceutical health treatments during a recent podcast appearance, saying, “We’re going to end the war at the FDA against alternative medicine.”
Speaking on the ultimate Human podcast with host Gary Brecka, a “renowned Human Biologist, biohacker, and longevity expert,” according to the website, Kennedy said he would fix the U.S.Food and Drug Administration’s bias against the following: stem cell treatments, chelating drugs, vitamins and minerals, amino acids, peptides, and hyperbaric chambers.
“Our position is that the FDA has a job: Just do the science on these kinds of issues and then tell the public what they’ve learned from the science … but don’t tell physicians what they can and cannot prescribe,” he said. And as far as the patients go,he said,”If you want to take an experimental drug … you ought to be able to do that.”
RFK Jr. added, “We don’t want to have the Wild West. we want to make sure that data is out there. But we also want to respect the intelligence of the American people” to decide what treatments will benefit them the most.
He acknowledged that, with this approach, there will be “charlatans” as well as “people who have bad results” from various alternative treatments.
“But ultimately,” he said, “you can’t prevent that either way, and leaving the whole thing in the hands of pharma is not working for us.”
Brecka called Kennedy’s pronouncements “music to my ears.”
Below, what you need to know about the alternative therapies RFK jr. is advocating for.
stem cell therapy
What is it: It’s a way to repair diseased or injured tissue in the body using stem cells-cells that can self-renew or become other types of tissues-typically grown in a lab, manipulated, and then be implanted into the patient.
What it does: Though it’s considered to be largely experimental,the FDA does permit stem cell therapies for blood and immune disorders. Leukemia, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, and multiple myeloma, for example, are also often treated this way, with bone marrow treatments, which are backed by decades of science. Other types of the treatment are still in clinical trials,while more and more wellness centers are offering the treatment for unapproved reasons,using cells drawn from the patient’s body and injected back in without manipulation for everything from autism and ALS to Parkinson’s and better skin,according to the New York Times.
Kennedy told Brecka that he received the treatment for his voice disorder, spasmodic dysphonia, and that it helped him “enormously,” but that he had to go to Antigua to access it.
Risks: For starters, wellness clinic treatments cannot guarantee they are using actual stem cell, reported the Times. And improper injections can lead to a host of terrible consequences-clots, infections, blindness, and even the formation of tumors, which the FDA warned of in 2021.
Chelating drugs
What it is indeed: Chelation involves the use of certain chemicals to remove toxic heavy metals, such as mercury and lead, from the body; all FDA-approved chelation therapy products require a prescription and can only be used safely under the supervision of a healthcare practitioner.
What it does: Some alternative medicine practitioners offer chelation therapy, through pill or injection, as a way to treat Alzheimer’s, autism, diabetes, high blood pressure, or Parkinson’s disease, all of which are unapproved and risky.
Children’s Health Defense, founded by Kennedy, has written about chelation as a way to treat autism, which compares “autism with mercury poisoning” due to childhood vaccines that contained the preservative thimerosal (largely mercury) before it was removed in 2001. Some flu shots still contain the preservative, but, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “There is no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines.”
risks: The FDA warns specifically about using chelation therapy for autism, and notes, “Chelating important minerals needed by the body can lead to serious and life-threatening outcomes.” While minor risks may include fever, headache, muscle pain, and nausea or vomiting, severe reactions range from heart failure and kidney damage to respiratory failure and seizures, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Vitamins and minerals
What they are: Dietary supplements in almost every letter of the alphabet, from A to zinc, are over-the-counter pills or liquids that contain nutritional boosts of vitamins and minerals.
What they aim to help: Vitamin and mineral supplements aim to fill in with necessary nutrients that a person is not getting through food-though nutritionists believe that healthy food is the best source of such vitamins and minerals. Studies have found supplements may help with practically any issue under the sun-energyheart issues, cognitive functiongut health, sleepand more.
Risks: The U.S. food and Drug Administration regulates supplements, but doesn’t approve them for safety or effectiveness before they are sold to the public. Some may cause
