Digital Social Hour
The Truth About Big Pharma and America's Health Decline | Brigid Rasmussen DSH #1288
Tue, 01 Apr 2025
Is Big Pharma profiting off America's health decline? 🏥💊 Join Sean Kelly on Digital Social Hour as he sits down with Brigid, COO of MAHA Alliance, to uncover shocking truths about Big Pharma, the overprescription epidemic, and the alarming rise in health crises. From mental health misdiagnoses to food system failures and the fight for transparency, this conversation is packed with valuable insights that will leave you questioning everything. 🌍💡 Brigid shares her journey working alongside Bobby Kennedy and President Trump to create the groundbreaking MAHA movement—focusing on making America healthy again by tackling the root causes of chronic disease and empowering communities. 💪🍎 Hear how grassroots support is driving change, from addressing school lunches to fighting for informed choices in healthcare. Don't miss out—watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation to stay informed on the latest health and political shifts! 🚀 Let's make health a priority together. 💬🔥 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Mental Health Crisis 00:28 - Brigid Rasmussen 03:05 - Maha Movement 07:38 - Maha Legislation 12:49 - China Buying Up Farmland 15:22 - Make America Healthy Again 19:23 - Kellogg's Petition 27:32 - Censorship 34:25 - Howie’s Political Journey 39:59 - Mental Health Awareness 42:28 - Infant Mortality Rate 47:24 - Upcoming Events and Initiatives 48:07 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Brigid Rasmussen https://www.instagram.com/brigidrasmussenn/ https://www.instagram.com/mahaalliance/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #alternativemedicine #medicaldecisionmaking #foodanddrugadministration #publichealth #mentalhealthjustice
Chapter 1: What are the main concerns about mental health in America?
One, yes, mental health is at an all-time low, but it's also just increase of diagnosing teenagers when they have depression or anxiety. It's like that's often a very situational thing. Why are we putting kids in a box and then prescribing them something that they're then learning to externalize their ability to self-regulate and self-soothe and be resilient?
Chapter 2: Who is Brigid Rasmussen and what is her role in MAHA?
Okay, guys, got Bridget here, COO of Maha Alliance and Maha Action. A lot going on in your world. Thanks for coming on.
Oh, yeah. Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah, I'm sure you're all over the place lately.
Yep, exciting times. DC a lot, Austin, Texas, here in Vegas, LA, all over the place.
Nice. How long have you been with Bobby and the movement?
So I started working with Bobby in April of 2023 when he announced that he was running for president. And, you know, it was a small group of us figuring out how to set up a campaign website and file paperwork with the FEC, that kind of thing. And then his big announcement speech in Boston, which really is when things really took off.
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Chapter 3: How is the MAHA movement addressing America's health crisis?
And then shortly after he announced his independent presidential run in Philadelphia, I believe October 2023. He asked me to be his chief of staff and sort of take a more, more of a leadership role on his campaign, which was incredible. So yes, April, 2023 started working with Bobby directly.
Yeah. You guys had an uphill battle from there.
Definitely. It was huge. And it was more and more uphill the farther we got in terms of things like ballot access. You know, for independent candidates, you don't just automatically get on the ballot. You have to collect a certain amount of signatures in each state. It's a unique experience.
requirement in each state from, you know, how big the paper size of the petition has to be to the color ink that's used.
Wow, the color of the ink matters.
Yeah, yeah. And the DNC sued us, I want to say, a dozen or more times for things like the starting collecting signatures before you have a vice president announced or where, you know, districts for collecting signatures, zip codes, you know, you have to, in New York, for example, you have to have a certain amount in each borough. It's crazy.
So, you know, it was an uphill battle, but it was also such an incredible one. You know, our grassroots support was really the backbone of the movement. By the end of the campaign, we had 100,000 plus active volunteers out in crazy weather conditions, collecting signatures, tabling at parades, I was driving through the middle of nowhere, Colorado once on a Saturday afternoon.
And there was this group of maybe a dozen volunteers holding a banner over a freeway that said RFK for president. So, you know, while we had those hurdles of being an independent campaign, we had this passion and fiery movement like never seen before. And that same movement is now, you know, getting behind Maha related legislation and helping us on the ground. Yeah.
Continue to get the word out and grow.
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Chapter 4: What role does Big Pharma play in America's health issues?
Yeah, something like that. It's crazy. You know, kids are being prescribed SSRIs at a crazy rate too. Adults are on tons and tons of prescription medications. It's like, why is that the norm, you know?
Why is it that when a kid goes into their pediatrician for a checkup and they say, oh, I'm feeling kind of depressed or, you know, the teacher says that they're, you know, off the walls, they can't focus. Why is the first thing to put somebody on Adderall or Lexapro or things like that that are just not safe for kids? Then, you know, there you have it, a forever customer.
When I was in college at Rutgers, Adderall was so easy to get.
Yeah.
Like everyone in my hall had it.
It's easier to get than spinach.
Yeah. No, probably.
I went to Pepperdine University, which is pretty conservative and a dry campus and all of that. And it was still, I mean, everywhere. It was everywhere. It's a big problem with college athletes too. They're getting Adderall prescriptions and then they're allowed to take Adderall to increase their performance. It's... across the board, a huge issue.
It's the accessibility of these things, antidepressants, stimulants, you name it. We've got to think about root causes. And when a kid is having trouble in school, why not look at what they're eating or how much exercise they're getting?
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Chapter 5: How are school lunches impacting children's health?
It's crazy. Yeah. That's concerning.
It's so concerning. Yeah. And then, yeah, again, they're not prioritizing the health of the American consumer, you know, the same way that a small farmer would.
Yeah. I mean, last thing I heard was they own the second most farmland in America.
Yeah.
China.
Yeah. I believe that.
That's crazy. It's crazy. And Bill Gates is first.
Right.
And who knows what he's up to.
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Chapter 6: Why is foreign ownership of American farmland concerning?
They're essentially saying if they have one stamp of approval once that... that should be they should have legal protection because they'll go bankrupt if they get sued which is just insane it's like well you should go bankrupt like you should you know so people ask all the time they're like
reporters will ask me, what do you have to say to big companies that are really worried about going out of business? And I'm like, they have nothing to worry about as long as they're not knowingly harming the American people.
Yeah, that's the key word, knowingly, right?
Yeah, knowingly. And yeah, they shouldn't have anything to worry about. Bobby is not going to make junk food illegal. He's not going to wipe away pharma. He hasn't yet. He's not going to. He's just going to ensure that people know what they're putting in their bodies and big companies aren't profiting off people being sicker and sicker.
Yeah. Yeah. Was the make people healthy again always the main selling point from the start or did that kind of come along later?
You know, it's funny because I had never heard make America healthy again. We played around with like make earth great again on the campaign, which people really liked.
Yeah.
But it wasn't until August 23rd, 2024, I'll never forget, Bobby joined President Trump on stage in Phoenix and and said, don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again? And by the end of the day, people were selling merch, people set up websites, like it really took off. Um, and now I can't imagine Maha not being something that we say every day.
Um, it's so recognizable, you know, I wear my hats at the airport and things like that. And everybody's like, I love Maha, you know, from both sides of the aisle, we've been at Republican conventions. Like I mentioned, we've been, um, at, we were at Expo West in LA with a lot of kind of more liberal leaning people and companies.
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Chapter 7: How is the MAHA movement gaining traction and support?
Yeah, the Kellogg's petition.
Yeah.
How many signatures did that thing get?
I think it ended up with like 300,000 signatures that they hand delivered to the Kellogg's headquarters, freezing cold, middle of nowhere, Michigan.
Yeah.
And then, you know, what, six weeks later, the FDA announces it's banning red food, red number six or red number five or something like that. It's that... shows us the power of this kind of grassroots lobbying, grassroots legislative advocacy. I mean, it really is so loud when people like that rally together. Yeah. Beautiful. And demand change.
Yeah. And then the heavy metals inside of the Lunchables, that was a big deal. I'm not sure if they changed their ingredients yet, but.
Yeah, Lunchables is a big one because, I mean, and Lunchables is similar to others where it's totally marketed toward kids. You know, they have like toys in there. It's like the bright colors. It's like food is not supposed to look like Play-Doh. It reminds me of like those little Play-Doh, you know, the kids like Play-Doh toys that are like, oh, make a, like it's like a restaurant model.
That's literally what Lunchables reminds me of, just plastic toys.
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