🐄 AOC wants in on MAHA

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Read online 👋 Welcome to Healthy, Again. I'm Max, and this publication is all about taking your health back: real food, holistic thinking, and time-tested wisdom, for you and your family.     1 AOC is courting the MAHA crowd SOUND OFF     2 Less sugar as a baby, less cancer at 60     3 Your bedtime melatonin, tied to heart failure POP QUIZ     4 Keto beat the "healthy" diet on a fatty liver       01  AOC is courting the MAHA crowd The face of the left is now courting RFK Jr.'s movement. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she meets with MAHA activists and works with them, calling the fight over "extraordinary corruption in our agricultural system" nonpartisan. A KFF poll shows why: 41% of Americans identify with MAHA, a bloc neither party can write off. She will stand with them against Big Food. She will not follow them on vaccines. Half a movement is easier to join than the whole thing.         02  Less sugar as a baby, less cancer at 60 A new study found that babies exposed to less sugar were healthier and less likely to get cancer. Britain rationed sugar until 1953, and when it ended, the amount in the average diet nearly doubled. Researchers compared 64,000 people born just before that jump against those born right after. The ones born under rationing had 69% less liver cancer and 36% less breast cancer decades later, and their cells aged about 2 years slower. Same country, same genes. The only difference was sugar, before they could walk.         TOGETHER WITH ALLEGIANCE GOLD The #1 RMD Mistake Retirees Make Most retirees take their RMD the traditional way — in cash. An in-kind distribution may help you avoid selling at the wrong time. Learn How         03  Your bedtime melatonin, tied to heart failure A new study followed 130,000 adults with insomnia. The ones who took melatonin for a year or more were about twice as likely to develop heart failure. They were also 3.5 times more likely to land in the hospital for heart failure, and nearly twice as likely to die within 5 years. The study only found a link, not a cause, and the heavy users may have been less healthy to begin with. Still, it sells on every drugstore shelf with no prescription and no warning. Worth a second look before your next dose.         04  Keto beat the "healthy" diet on a fatty liver Fatty liver is just what it sounds like: fat building up inside the liver. It is one of the most common liver problems in the country, and it quietly raises the risk of diabetes and worse liver disease. A new study tried to reverse it with food alone. Researchers fed 42 people either keto (almost no carbs, mostly fat) or the Mediterranean diet (vegetables, olive oil, fish, whole grains) for 5 months, and held every group to the same 10% weight loss. Keto still cleared far more fat from the liver, 67% versus 45%. Half the keto group shed their prediabetes too. Everyone lost the same weight. The carbs were the difference, not the calories.         ✿ QUICK HITS — ON OUR RADAR RFK Jr. had 2 measles deaths kept off the national count. Pennsylvania logged 2 measles-related deaths in unvaccinated residents, but Reuters reported Kennedy's team pushed to leave them off the CDC tally, which still reads zero for 2026. Injectable epinephrine was recalled nationwide, but not EpiPens. American Regent pulled 3 lots of epinephrine, the shot that stops severe allergic reactions, after finding glass and plastic inside the vials. Hospital supplies only, not consumer EpiPens. People with more teeth lived longer after pancreatic cancer surgery. Patients with at least 21 of their own teeth survived about 5 years after surgery, versus just over 3 for those with fewer, likely a sign of better overall health. A single gut bacterium was linked to a stronger grip. Older adults carrying Roseburia had 29% stronger hand grip, and mice given it gained about 30% grip strength over 8 weeks. Artificial sweeteners were linked to more diabetes, not less. Across 721,000 adults, the heaviest users had 31% higher odds of type 2 diabetes than the lightest.         TOGETHER WITH HEAR.COM The Future of Hearing is the Horizon IX from Hear.com The right hearing aids benefit more than your ears — they also improve your brain's processing power. That's why experts recommend Horizon IX, the "miracle" hearing technology from hear.com. This advanced device is built for modern life, using German engineering to separate speech from background noise. More than half a million happy customers are living better than ever, thanks to effortless conversations with discreet, all-day comfort. You can join them right now with a 45-day, no-risk trial. Choose your state and check if you qualify for a 45-day no-risk trial.         ✯ WILD STORY Here is a strange one. Researchers found that a bacterium living in the urinary tract can make its own testosterone. In the lab, the microbe took DHEA, a hormone building block the body already produces, and turned it straight into active testosterone. Here is why that matters: prostate cancer usually feeds on testosterone, so a standard treatment is to shut the body's supply off. But if bacteria are quietly brewing it right there at the prostate, the tumor may keep getting fed no matter what the rest of the body does. It has only been shown in a dish so far. Still, it points to a hormone factory hiding in the body that nobody knew to look for.     *Indicates content from our sponsors THE COMMUNITY SECTION     ✿ SOUND OFF Story one is the left reaching onto MAHA turf. Your turn: Do you believe the left actually cares about MAHA? Yes No Neither         ✿ POP QUIZ Poison-control calls for young kids swallowing melatonin jumped how much in the last decade? Up 50% Up 150% Up 530%         ✿ POLL RESULTS — FROM LAST EDITION Do you trust the doctors' groups more than the CDC on vaccines? 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Neither (95) 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ No (80) 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yes (36) It's all the same players making the recommendations, just under a different umbrella. — Frank I don't trust either. They've all been trained to reach for drugs instead of preventing the problem. — Ellen I'm 82 and a retired nurse. The older I get, the more I distrust the profession. — Nancy   211 votes         ✯ ONE GOOD THING A newborn kitten in Texas took a 76-mile road trip nobody meant to give it. It had crawled up into a car's engine in Rocksprings and only turned up when the driver reached Kerrville and heard crying under the hood. Animal control, a local rescue, and staff at a nearby hospital pulled the front grille off the car to reach it. The kitten came out warm, hungry, and completely fine, now safe with Kerrville Pets Alive. It picked a good car.       Don’t want more emails? Unsubscribe here →   Thanks for reading. Take care of yourself, and forward this to someone who needs it. — Max   © 2026 Healthy, Again. 228 Park Ave S, #29976, New York, New York 10003, United States Unsubscribe