Update on the MAHA Movement: MAHA Institute

Recently, I attended HHS/MAHA Commission meetings in Washington, DC. It was packed with discussions, statistics, and hard facts as to where we are with the health of our nation, along with proposed solutions.

Before I share the good that will be forthcoming, I would like to offer a few hard facts:

1. 100 years ago, almost all our fat was animal fat. Today, 80% of our fat is toxic seed oils. These seed oils are also used in paint remover, rust remover, and other solvents.

2. Today, kids get 2 hours less sleep than just two generations ago.

3. There is an upsurge of fertility issues in individuals of childbearing age.

4. 77% of our military age young people are unable to meet the health requirements necessary to join the military due to a chronic health issue.

5. 70% of a child's diet is not even real food.

6. 100 years ago, there was no refined grain or sugar in people's diet.

7. In the 1960s, there was 1 injection in the first year of life. Today, there are 30-plus in the first year of life, and some of those are given within the first few minutes of life.

8. Almost 70% of all Americans are on at least one daily prescription medication (this is true of 49% of children and 38% of people aged 20-29 years). Approximately 20% of Americans are taking psychiatric medications, and that number is rising monthly.

9. American children ingest or eat 25% of the world's pesticides.

10. 3,201 kids in America will be diagnosed with prediabetes today alone!

11. We have more pediatric cancer than any other country in the world. 

12. Studies indicate that when children are exposed to high levels of air pollution, they show early signs of heart damage, including increased blood pressure, arterial stiffness (which increases the workload on the heart), inflammation, and oxidative stress (which leads to chronic inflammation that damages blood vessel walls and disrupts normal heart function).

13. In early COVID, when schools shut down, 5G cell towers and boosters were placed on the rooftops of our schools. We do not know what this excessive exposure has done to our children because there have been no studies to confirm or deny the damaging effects of EMR on humans. These studies have all been shut down by the industry that promotes them as safe and effective.

Our current system is tied to archaic statutes and concepts, such as the food pyramid developed in the 1960s to encourage grain sales. Over the years, many other statutes have been put in place by lobbyists to protect respective industries. For instance, a farmer cannot legally say that animal fat is a healthy fat. Many foolish laws block the path to good research and funding. If we know the truth, we can begin to work to turn around the health of our nation. 

School lunches are designed according to the archaic food pyramid. The federal food reimbursement system will kick out any reimbursements for fresh fruits and vegetables. There are no reimbursements for whole chickens; the system will "kick it out," but chicken nuggets are accepted. NO fresh or local food can be put in the system. But here’s the good news: the system guidelines and software are being completely rewritten to include local fresh food. This will be completed by January 2026.

Our food is toxic, our houses are toxic, our air is toxic, our medicines are toxic, and our water is poison. So where do we begin? When the MAHA Institute panelists were asked, "What is the single most important thing that can be addressed today?" the answer was unanimous: remove pesticides from our food! While that might be a place to start, this movement will take all of us stepping up to speak the truth and make our voices hear in our various areas of influence. This is where the MAHA Institute comes into play. This organization has been created to help usher in this bold movement to reclaim the health of our nation.

MAHA INSTITUTE IS DEDICATED TO:

Rebuilding America's Health Policy & Infrastructure

The MAHA Institute will source, engage, and motivate people with the skills and political will to heal this nation. Our goal is to reform the political, regulatory, and legislative environment to realign it with the first principles of the United States of America.

AMERICA IS AT A WATERSHED MOMENT

The people have risen up for their health and freedom

Americans have been handicapped by years of apathetic and now atrophied civic capacity. MAHA Institute will be a source of knowledge and power for those Americans, and a source of personnel for the new administration.

Catalyzing Civic Engagement

They will empower citizens to participate meaningfully in public policy, government oversight, and national discourse.

Sourcing High-Integrity Americans

They will find & attract individuals interested in public service who can provide a good example and best practices.

In short, the MAHA Institute has been designed to represent the people, not government and corporate interests. MAHA Institute will serve to connect both large and small groups of people and organizations who have coalesced around this movement. This is truly a historic moment in time, and the MAHA movement has formed to wake people up across this country.

The objectives of this movement may sound insurmountable, but we serve a mighty God! We all need to be involved at our churches, in our communities, and with our friends and family to seize teachable moments to boldly speak the truth. Change is possible, and we can reverse the health of our nation. Evil wants to silence our voices, but we have all been given an assignment. Will you answer the call to speak the truth boldly?

Debbie Mize

Vice-President, Co-Founder

Kansans for Health Freedom

Chapter Coordinator, CHD-Kansas

Wisdom From a Former Senate Staffer and D.C. Worker

There is A LOT of power in constituent pressure on Members of Congress. 

I believe this is a once in a generation opportunity to expose rot and corruption and more people are awake than ever, it seems. Of course, the powerful lobbyists and interests have lots of money and campaign donations to spread around... BUT we also have a voice.

My personal opinion is, in each of our respective states, we who care about health, clean food, clean air, transparency, etc. MUST not rest. We must engage our elected officials weekly. Call the office and leave messages/speak with the staffer, attend townhall meetings, and ENGAGE! We can't rest just because one election is over. 

I have my senators' and congressman's local office phone numbers saved on my cell phone and I call them sometimes in the parking lot waiting to pick up my spouse. They log calls and voter positions. Large volumes of calls on X topic make an impact. Congressman Massie has said phone calls work better than emails.

Elected officials expect voters to tune out until the next campaign, but now is not a time to rest. Speak up frequently on those issues that matter to you and get 20 friends in your state to do the same. 

We've won a battle, but not the war.... Let's win the war!

A note from KSHF: As denoted by the title, this perspective is from a Kansas citizen who formerly worked in Washington, D.C.

Court Rules Against Hospital That Fired Woman for Refusing COVID Vaccine

This article was originally published by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. in The Defender.

Saint Luke’s Health Systems improperly fired an employee when it rejected her request for a religious exemption from the hospital system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the Court of Appeal of the State of Kansas ruled.

On Sept. 14, 2021, Sheryl Glean submitted an online exemption request from the hospital’s vaccine mandate, according to the court opinion issued on Jan. 17. Glean worked at Saint Luke’s South Hospital in Overland Park. Saint Luke’s runs 10 hospitals in Kansas and Missouri.

In her request, Glean said her religious beliefs include that her body is “holy.” She also said she talked with her church pastor about her decision to refuse the vaccine.

The hospital denied the request, the court said, “because it interpreted the language Glean used as expressing a concern about physical harm from the vaccine rather than a sincerely held religious belief against getting the vaccine.”

Saint Luke’s was wrong to interpret Glean’s request that way, the court said:

“Not only did she explain that her refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine is based on her religious views … [she] further evidenced the religiosity of her beliefs when she stated that she had discussed her concerns about getting the vaccine with the pastor from her church.”

The court pointed out that the Kansas law on COVID-19 vaccination requirements specifies that an employer “shall grant an exemption requested in accordance with this section based on sincerely held religious beliefs without inquiring into the sincerity of the request.”

In other words, the hospital was wrong for even questioning the sincerity of Glean’s religious beliefs regarding her request.

Ruling is the latest in back-and-forth legal battle

The Jan. 17 ruling is the latest development in a back-and-forth legal battle that started when Saint Luke’s fired Glean on Nov. 30, 2021, for failing to comply with the vaccination requirement.

Glean sued Saint Luke’s, alleging the hospital had improperly denied her religious exemption request under Kansas law on COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

The law, passed in 2021, requires employers that mandate the COVID-19 vaccine to exempt an employee who submits a written waiver request, as long as the employee states in the request that complying with the mandate would “endanger the life or health of the employee or an individual who resides with the employee,” or “violate sincerely held religious beliefs of the employee.”

The law defines “religious beliefs” as including “theistic and non-theistic moral and ethical beliefs as to what is right and wrong that are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views.”

According to the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Kansas Department of Labor sided with Glean, finding that Saint Luke’s had violated the law. However, Saint Luke’s petitioned the Johnson County District Court to review the decision.

The district court decided in Saint Luke’s favor, ruling that Glean hadn’t demonstrated a sincerely held religious belief.

But the Kansas Court of Appeal disagreed. It reversed the district court’s decision, noting that “the district court improperly heightened the requirements under the statute and ignored the context in which they were made.”

‘Another step forward in the ongoing legal fight for justice’

Commenting on the Court of Appeal’s ruling, William D. Mize, an attorney on the board of Kansans for Health Freedom (KSHF) and a member of the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Kansas Chapter, said:

“This result reflects the efforts of Kansans for Health Freedom and others in 2021 to protect Kansas employees from the actions of employers like St. Luke’s who chose to terminate them for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine.”

KSHF, CHD Kansas and others pushed to pass the 2021 Kansas law ensuring religious exemptions to the COVID-19 shots, he said.

Lindsey Berning, a also a member of CHD Kansas and KSHF, said Kansas lawmakers intentionally included verbiage in the law about how employers should not question the sincerity of an employee’s religious beliefs. “The sort of mistreatment and discrimination by St. Luke’s is exactly what the lawmakers intended to avoid by adding this verbiage.”

She added:

“Employers do not have the right to grant or deny a religious exemption request based on their own evaluation of what someone’s religious beliefs are or how ‘sincere’ those beliefs are. Doing so would sabotage the integrity of having a religious exemption in the first place and go against the concept of freedom of religion entirely.”

Attorney John Coyle also criticized the district court for improperly “scrutinizing” Glean’s stated religious beliefs. Coyle represents a New Jersey nurse who sued her employer for refusing to grant her religious exemption request from the hospital’s flu vaccine mandate.

Coyle called the Court of Appeal’s decision “another step forward in the ongoing legal fight for justice on behalf of employees who were discriminated against on the basis of their religious objection to their employer’s COVID vaccination requirement.”

“Keep fighting for your rights,” Coyle said. “History will judge harshly those who stood on the wrong side of this.”

Stop the Broadband Deployment Act!

“A new federal bill that threatens to eliminate all state and local control in cell tower and small cell placements is still making its way through Congress. Proposed bill H.R. 3557 aims to expedite the deployment of wireless and other communications facilities through a massive federal power grab that strips away state and local control in permitting and regulatory review processes – the very mechanisms designed to protect citizens from the threats posed by wireless facilities.

If H.R. 3557 passes, it will result in a truly unrestricted proliferation of cell towers and small cell installations near schools, playgrounds, and homes without any local or community input.

Click Here to Learn More and Take Action

Cell towers and small cells endanger our health, damage the environment, and jeopardize our privacy and autonomy. Despite these threats, H.R. 3557 systematically removes state and local jurisdiction, prohibits temporary suspensions of installations and eliminates critical regulatory safeguards such as environmental and historic preservation reviews.

We cannot afford to lose all local control and must not allow the wireless and telecom industry to expand unchecked based on misguided and one-size-fits-all federal laws. We must stop this advancement of corporate interests at the expense of the health, safety and well-being of people and the environment.

Help us #KillHR3557 by telling your Congressional representative to oppose H.R. 3557, the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2023.”

2024 Health Freedom Bills

As the new legislative session approaches, we find nine health freedom bills left over from the last session that may be considered in the 2024 session. Three of these are in the Senate and six are in the House. Since four of the House bills have SB numbers, we assume that these bills died in the House last session. 

In the Senate, SB 12 deals with stopping child mutilation by our medical providers, SB20 would expand vaccine exemptions, and SB173 would allow for the purchase of over-the-counter ivermectin.

In the House, SB6 would restrict the KDHE from issuing orders relating to infectious diseases and quarantines, SB233 would provide for a civil action against doctors performing gender reassignment, SB314 would prohibit the KDHE from requiring a Covid vaccine to attend childcare or school, SB315 would require daycare, schools, and employers to accept religious vaccine exemptions and would also repeal the meningitis vaccine requirement for student housing, HB2126 would authorize over the counter ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and HB2161 is a patient's rights bill that would insure most visitation for a patient.

Remember, any legislation in the House must go through Rep. Brenda Landwehr and Rep. Dr. John Eplee, the Chair and Vice Chair of the health committee so it is very important that we all mail postcards to House leadership to impress on them the importance of appointing new leadership that will protect our Constitutional rights to Individual health freedom.  Find all the details for this Call to Action here. Then we need to contact Senator Gossage to encourage her to move the Senate bills in her Public Health and Welfare committee. 

Of course, as happens during legislative sessions, there will likely be maneuvering to combine some of these bills and bills yet to be filed, so we must remain vigilant to follow these bills as they move through the 2024 Legislative Session. Bookmark the link to our Freedom Bill Tracker so you can follow each bill’s progress throughout the session!

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