Wellness Populism at HHS

RFK Jr. framed airport kids as suffering 'mitochondrial challenges,' a wellness-verse trope not recognized in pediatrics. The article argues this is coded signaling to an alt‑health base and shows how Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) rhetoric is entering official health messaging. — If wellness-populist frames guide federal health communication, they could steer research priorities, public trust, and clinical guidance away from evidence and toward movement narratives.