Vice President JD Vance opened up about his most “MAHA” beliefs while chumming it up with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
Lauding the “MAHA crowd” for asking “the right questions” about the food we eat and the medicine we take, the former senator told the audience he thinks of Ibuprofen as a “useless medication.”
“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 shared.
”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,” he added. “It’s not anti-medication, it’s anti-useless-medication.”
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Ibuprofen, which is sold under the brand names Advil, Motrin and more, is an over-the-counter, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug which works by blocking an enzyme that produces the hormones that cause inflammation, pain and fever.
Vance’s crunchy declaration comes on the heels of a controversial and medically questionable White House announcement about risks associated with acetaminophen, another one of the most commonly used over-the-counter remedies for aches and pains.
In late September, RFK Jr. and President Donald Trump held a press conference to warn people that using Tylenol, one of the countries most popular brands of acetaminophen, during pregnancy led to higher incidents of autism in children.
A veteran critic of vaccines, Kennedy Jr. has long linked vaccinations to autism and, in October, made the baffling claim that circumcised children are twice as likely to be autistic when compared to their peers.
Those links have been largely debunked by scientists, who claim genetic anomalies and environmental factors have the most impact on if a child has autism.
The CDC found that autism affects 1 in 31 American children today.