Can We Make Health Bipartisan? | Fixing MAHA, SNAP & Food Policy

Realfoodology

Courtney Swan

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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270: I sat down with Ryland and Mollie Engelhart, farmers, filmmakers and real food advocates. This dynamic brother-sister duo is at the forefront of the regenerative farming movement, which they’ve explored in the critically-acclaimed documentaries “Kiss the Ground” and “Common Ground.” We’re talking about MAHA (and where it can improve), rethinking SNAP to include whole foods, and the dire challenges facing local farms today. Topics Discussed: → How can we make health and nutrition a truly bipartisan issue? → What changes does MAHA need to actually support real food reform? → How could reframing SNAP bring more whole foods to families in need? → Are corporations and the government helping or harming our food system? → What can we do to save family farms and strengthen local food economies? Sponsored By: → Timeline | Go to⁠ https://www.timeline.com/REALFOODOLOGY ⁠for 10% off your order of Mitopure! → Function Health | Function is a near-360 view to see what’s happening in your body, and my 1000 followers get a $100 credit toward their membership. Visit https://www.functionhealth.com/realfoodology or use code REALFOODOLOGY100 at sign-up to own your health. → Clearstem | Go to https://www.clearstem.com/realfoodology and use code REALFOODOLOGY at checkout for 15% off your first order. → BIOptimizers | For 15% off go to https://www.bioptimizers.com/realfoodology and use promo code REALFOODOLOGY. → Puori | Feel the difference for yourself, go to https://www.puori.com/REALFOODOLOGY and use the code REALFOODOLOGY at checkout for 20% off. → Everyday Dose | Buy any two Everyday Dose products at a Target store near you, and they’ll pay you back for one! Visit https://www.everydaydose.com/REALFOODOLOGYBOGO for more details. → Beekeeper’s Naturals | Go to https://www.beekeepersnaturals.com/REALFOODOLOGY or enter code REALFOODOLOGY to get 20% off your order. Timestamps: → 00:00:00 - Introduction → 00:05:26 - Make America Healthy Again → 00:17:50 - Where MAHA Needs Improvement → 00:24:36 - Making Health Bipartisan → 00:38:52 - Reforming SNAP → 00:53:09 - Saving Family Farms → 00:57:00 - Creating Community → 01:00:21 - Soda, SNAP + Corporate Collusion → 01:04:05 - Farm Supply Struggles → 01:06:24 - Advice for the Secretary of Agriculture Show Links: → Kiss the Ground (Documentary) → Common Ground (Documentary) Check Out: → Ryland Engelhart → Mollie Engelhart → Sovereignty Ranch Check Out Courtney: → LEAVE US A VOICE MESSAGE → Check Out My new FREE Grocery Guide! → @realfoodology → www.realfoodology.com → My Immune Supplement by 2x4 → Air Dr Air Purifier → AquaTru Water Filter → EWG Tap Water Database Produced By: Drake Peterson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're doing a live podcast today.
0:01.4	If you don't know who I am, my name is Courtney Swan.
0:03.6	I have my Masters of Science in Nutrition and Integrative Health.
0:07.5	I started to get really passionate about food and nutrition about 20 years ago,
0:12.9	and then I decided to go back to school about 14 years ago.
0:16.1	And real foodology is really just, it was born out of a desire to get the truth out. When I was in school,
0:23.1	I was learning a lot of things about the food industry that I felt like a lot of people didn't
0:27.7	know. And I really felt like I needed to get this information out and sound the alarms because
0:32.8	it's quite literally life-saving. What we're eating is everything. It determines our health in general.
0:38.6	So I started Real Foodology just as a food blog. And then when Instagram became really big,
0:43.7	I started going to Instagram and I was educating on Instagram. And then I started a podcast in 2020,
0:49.0	which I believe is the year that I met both of y'all. It was 2020, I think.
0:53.4	She came to volunteer at the farm is how I met her, but sheall. It was 2020, I think. She came to volunteer at the farm,
0:55.2	is how I met her, but she already knew Ryland. Well, I asked Ryland to come on the podcast because I saw
1:00.1	kiss the ground, and I was enthralled with that documentary. Regenerative farming has become
1:07.2	one of the most important things to me in my messaging because I believe that,
1:11.8	well, not even I believe, it's where our health really truly begins is how our food is grown. And so when I saw Kiss the Ground, I was like, I have to get Rylan on the podcast. So I had you on the podcast, and you were like, where do you live? And I was like, I'm in L.A. And then he told me to come out and meet Molly. He was like, oh, you got to go meet my sister, Molly.
1:27.6	You need to go out to the farm.
1:29.1	And then I went out and I volunteered to the farm.
1:30.8	And then we told me to come out and meet Molly. He was like, oh, you've got to go meet my sister, Molly.
1:27.6	You need to go out to the farm.
1:29.1	And then I went out and I volunteered to the farm.
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