Hyping his “Make America Health Again” bona fides, Vice President JD Vance said that he doesn’t take a “useless” common medication that is used by millions of Americans.
The veep’s comments came at a “Make American Healthy Again Summit” with Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C., HuffPost reported.
“I’m like one of these crazy people, the one way in which I’m more instinctively MAHA is that if, if I have, you know, a back sprain, or I slept weird and I woke up with back pain, I don’t want to take ibuprofen,” Vance said.
The vice president said, “I don’t like taking medications. I don’t like taking anything unless I absolutely have to. And I think that is another MAHA-style attitude. It’s not anti-medication, it’s anti-useless medication.”
Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory sold under brand names like Advil and Motrin and taken for headaches, dental pain, muscle aches and other pain-relief needs.
Vance said, “We should only be taking stuff, we should only be giving our kids stuff, if it’s actually necessary, safe and effective.”
USA Today reported that Vance said that Americans should look more closely at the medications they have at home.
“We really do have medications that I don’t think maybe they’re not solving the chronic disease epidemic. Maybe, hell, some of them are causing the chronic disease epidemic,” Vance said. “We’ve got to be asking more critical questions about what we’re putting in the bodies of these kids.”
President Donald Trump earlier this year warned that the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the popular pain reliever Tylenol, is associated with an increased risk of autism.
The president said that pregnant women should not use Tylenol.
Tylenol and medical experts fired back that there is no evidence of a link between Tylenol use and autism.
Tylenol packaging has long warned that pregnant women should only take the product in consultation with their doctor.
RFK Jr. has come under fire for his controversial statements about vaccines, autism and other health issues.
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