Make America Healthy Again: Dr. Robert Redfield Endorses RFK Jr.'s Vision

Make America Healthy Again: Dr. Robert Redfield Endorses RFK Jr.'s Vision to Shift from a Disease System to a Health System as HHS Secretary
" I'm gonna, to take a second to just reinforce what Bobby Kennedy has sort of put on the table that it's time for us to make America healthy again. I think it's shocking to me when you go from the time when his uncle was president and we had a 1 to 3 percent obesity rate."
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"And now we're looking at anywhere from a 40 to 70 percent obesity rate, depending on what group you look at. It's shocking when we had a chronic disease, among the American public that might have been, say, less than 10%. And now we're looking at chronic disease as the rule, not the exception for most Americans living with chronic disease."
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"One of that chronic disease is obesity or hypertension or type 2 diabetes or mental illness or or drug use disorder. These are serious or reactive airway disease. We're a sick country. And as the senator commented, what we've done, if we go back and try to dissect what we've done in my 50 years as a physician or 45 years as a physician, is we've progressively built a disease system. We've not built a health system."
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"And I think what's exciting about Kennedy, because he's obviously very passionate about what what he's about, and passion's important. You gotta really believe. And the other thing that's important about Kennedy is he actually believes it's doable."
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"I talk about his uncle when he said he was gonna put a man on the moon, you know, in 1962 before the end of the decade. We had no idea how to do that scientifically. But he obviously galvanized the country and the thing that was more important, he actually believed it was gonna get done."

"And then 1969, we put a man on the moon. Kennedy believes we can make America healthy again. I'm obviously committed to helping him accomplish that. As a physician, nothing could be more exciting than to flip this switch, from a disease system, and the senators hit a number of it."

"That's what we have right now. We have a disease system. We pay for illness. Everything's there for as long as you're sick, the system works. We need to flip the switch and and and have it a health system so that we pay for wellness. And, I think that to me is what's really exciting. And it's doable."

"I mean, I think the low hanging fruit as someone who sees the complexity with, chronic human disease, and I'll I'll defer to the next panel. I do think there's low hanging fruit in correcting what we put in our body."

"You know, when you really study what's happening with highly processed foods and how they end up end up contributing to obesity substantially, maybe getting rid of highly processed foods and some things could actually flip the switch pretty quickly in in in changing, the percentage of the American public that are obese."

"Maybe use of some of the, drug treatments that we have that can confront obesity to get people flipped back into the right direction. We can argue about it. But definitely, obesity is a big problem. And so I'm I think it's an exciting time for me because I do think if we continue the momentum that Kennedy has, he gets his team in place. He'll get the American public behind him."

"Moms and dads, I have 14 grandchildren now. I want my grandchildren healthy. I want them healthy. And right now, if they follow the course of what's happening, they're they're on a course for not being healthy. So I I I think that to me is exciting."

"Make America healthy again. I think we've gotta focus on it, both on the agricultural side, but all in the medical system side. The system's gotta change from a disease system to a health system and they couldn't agree with the senator more. Part of that is we gotta put doctors back in top of making America healthy again."

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