How leaders of the MAHA movement benefit from anti-science advocacy and promise profits to industry

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAURA UNGAR, Associated Press

Two advisers to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat on a stage in California this spring, addressing an audience at a natural products industry trade show that drew tens of thousands of people from food brands, investment banks, supplement sellers and other companies.

Their message: The goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement will help your bottom lines.

“It blows my mind that I’m going to watch the Republicans carry the supplement industry and the holistic health industry and chiropractors and the acupuncturists into the promised land,” said Del Bigtree, according to video of the remarks obtained by The Associated Press. At the time, Bigtree was leading MAHA Action, one of the groups an A