The MAHA Health Hustle: The Doctor Will Sell You Now

We are in the golden age of scam healthcare - and some doctors are game for it

Scroll through social media for five minutes and you’ll find them. The influencers hawking mystery shakes. The telehealth clinics pushing GLP-1s to anyone with a credit card. The THC-infused everything, the IV drip lounges, the biohackers with their continuous glucose monitors and their $400 saunas. All of it wrapped in the language of science, none of it obligated to demonstrate that it works.

That's the legal part. What makes today's wellness landscape truly remarkable isn't just the anonymous hustlers on Instagram. It's the credentialed professionals (doctors, chiropractors, naturopaths) who've figured out that a framed diploma is the most effective marketing tool money can't buy. They don't need to cure you. They need to sell to you. The regulatory system, which has flirted with reining in charlatans and tightening rules around physicians selling products, has made it easy. Now that system is run by a man who not only doesn't know medicine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he and his wife Ch…