Crunchy conservatives want to 'Make America Healthy Again'

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

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Summary

Have you or someone you love been confused by the push to 'Make America Healthy Again'?

Side effects may include:
- Being inundated by uncredentialed wellness influencers and crunchy mommy bloggers selling supplements
- Feeling perplexed by how RFK Jr. went from an 'environmental champion' to an anti-vax conspiracy theorist
- Or maybe seeing the names Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz more and more in your feeds?

Then you, my friend, are in dire need of our new series - The ROAD to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA). For the next few of weeks, we're delving into some of the origins, conspiracy theories, and power grabs that have led us to this moment, and what it could mean for our health.

This week, we take on the crunchy conservative - but not without some help! Brittany sits down with co-host of the Conspirituality podcast, Derek Beres, and biomedical scientist, Dr. Andrea Love, to uncover how crunchy went from more liberal hippie tree huggers to more conservative conspiracy theorists.

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0:00.0	A couple months ago here at Planet Money, we stumbled across our favorite kind of economic mystery.
0:06.1	Jack, what is this?
0:08.3	A deal that seemed way too good to be true.
0:11.5	What I'm seeing here, at least, is that it's very high clarity.
0:15.1	Join us on our adventure to find out exactly how much a diamond is worth.
0:21.7	Planet Money from NPR, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.5	Hello, hello.
0:29.0	I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:32.7	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:45.3	Yeah. what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Have you or someone you love been confused by the push to make America healthy again?
0:53.3	Side effects may include being inundated by uncredentialed wellness influencers and
0:58.8	crunchy mommy bloggers selling supplements.
1:02.1	Feeling perplexed by how RFK Jr. went from an environmental champion to an anti-vax
1:08.4	conspiracy theorist.
1:10.5	Or maybe seeing the names Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz,
1:13.0	more and more in your feeds.
1:15.1	If that's the case, then you, my friend,
1:17.4	are in dire need of our new series.
1:23.5	The Road to Make America Healthy Again.
1:26.5	Don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again?
1:33.4	For the next few weeks, we're delving into some of the origins, conspiracy theories, and power grabs that have led us to this moment.
1:41.2	And what that could mean for our health.
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