Jillian Michaels: There are 'financial incentives' on RFK Jr. pushback
What this video covers
A Rob Schmitt Tonight panel (Newsmax) with Michaels and Max Lugavere, host of The Genius Life podcast, about a Kennedy-backed initiative to restore nutrition training in medical education — a proposal some officials have declined to endorse. Michaels backs it with a history lesson and an argument about money in medicine, and the segment closes with both guests supporting the administration’s push, through the Save America Act, to bar gender-transition surgeries for minors.
Key points
- Michaels claims that at the turn of the 20th century doctors were taught nutrition, and that John D. Rockefeller had it removed from medical schools so he could patent petrochemical pharmaceuticals — a change she calls deliberate and long overdue for reversal.
- Lugavere argues the vast majority of chronic conditions burdening Americans — obesity and type 2 diabetes among them — have their origins in diet and lifestyle, so more nutrition training for doctors is, in his words, a win, and not a partisan or ideological issue.
- Asked about pushback against Kennedy’s agenda, Michaels says: “I think that there are financial incentives behind the pushback because there’s no money in prevention, but there’s a heck of a lot of money in treatment.”
- She argues the gap in doctors’ nutrition education is itself evidence of the problem, saying doctor after doctor reports having received zero training in it.
- On the Save America Act’s provisions against gender-transition surgeries for minors — and New York Attorney General Letitia James’s effort to force NYU Langone to reinstate its program — Lugavere supports the administration’s approach, saying, “keep your hands off of our country’s children.”
- Michaels adds that the American Medical Association and the governing body for plastic surgeons have, in her account, reversed course and will no longer perform these surgeries, and she attributes the practice to financial incentives.