Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Reforms in Child Vaccination Schedules; Pete Hegseth Wants a High-T Armed Forces

The media is very angry that Trump and RFKJr. want the vaccine schedule to be based on children's health, not Pfizer's fiscal health.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. It also directs the nation's health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied, and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, since that is not currently an option in the United States.

The renewed focus on vaccines marks a departure from the Trump administration's recent efforts to emphasize less controversial health policies related to healthy eating, drug price negotiations and medical fraud crackdowns ahead of November's midterm elections.

"Less controversial"? The left has opposed all of these proposals, including the ones they used to support. I saw media headlines asking if ultraprocessed foods, full of chemical preservatives and additives, were really bad for you like RFKJr. says.

Motherf***ers, you've been decrying ultraprocessed foods for fifty f***ing years. Now of all a sudden you're not so sure?

Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit.

Oh dear, in the two months between vaccinations a child might encounter some of these largely-controlled diseases.

Childhood vaccines -- and how and when to give them in combination -- go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.

Trump called the announcement a "major victory for parents rights, religious and constitutional rights, and for the gold standard science."

Trump's order specified that the schedule take account of the medical practices of other "peer, developed countries." In other words, other rich, advanced countries that aren't shithole countries with their heads up their asses.

In other words: Europe and Japan.

Because Europe and Japan aren't as vaccine-crazy as the American establishment wants this country to be.

But this article doesn't mention that, because they don't want to admit to readers there are disputes about the American vaccination schedule, and those disputes are found in advanced, wealthy countries.

And they do that because the "elites" do not believe in science or even democratic discussion. They believe in authoritarianism, and they like to claim "all of the experts" agree with us on this, so shut up, peon, and do what your superiors have commanded.

It is deadly to this argument to admit that the experts in other advanced countries disagree.

So they just don't even mention that.

But the media is here to inform you, right?

Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. The order also includes several changes to the childhood vaccine schedule that his health department has already attempted, but that have been blocked by a federal judge. A White House official who insisted on anonymity to brief reporters said Trump was within his right to provide his own recommendation through the executive order and said the lawsuit blocking the health department's schedule was a separate issue.

Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the announcement spreads uncertainty, fear and confusion where "there doesn't need to be any of that." He disputed Trump's recommendations and said previous ones should stand.

Oh well we certainly wouldn't want any "uncertainty" about what our Medical Experts have decided is best for us, would we? They got everything 100% right during covid, right?

The media is also freaking out because Pete Hegseth declared that good testosterone levels are good for military performance, and obviously the women and soyboys of the media react to testosterone like scraggly genderfuck vampires react to garlic.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for "testosterone deficiency" among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their "absolute best."

The screenings will be conducted annually as part of service members' required medical screenings for those 30 and older, he said. Troops under 30 can volunteer to be tested. In a video on social media, Hegseth said receiving testosterone replacement therapy would be voluntary.

In the video, Hegseth simply refers to troops, though it appears he is talking about only testing men in uniform for hormone irregularities.

Good Lord, they can't even let a program to test for testosterone be about men. They want to know why they're not screening women for testosterone, too.

The move comes as other Trump administration officials have begun to advocate for men to have easier access to testosterone replacement therapies, but the messaging from Hegseth and others blends known science on the hormone with broader, and less substantiated, claims.

When asked what conditions Hegseth was looking to address with the new policy, the Pentagon referred to Hegseth's remarks in the video that mentioned keeping troops "strong, resilient and capable" and that the rigors of the modern battlefield demand "maximum psychological and mental readiness."

Over the past several years, special operations troops -- and specifically Navy SEALs -- have come under scrutiny for their use of testosterone and similar substances to enhance performance.

The death of a SEAL recruit during training in 2022 led to a discovery of substances in his possession, including testosterone, and revealed far more rampant drug use among the elite program than was previously acknowledged.

A year after the recruit's death, the Navy said it would begin a drug-testing program to screen for "any hormonal substance, chemically or pharmacologically related to testosterone, that promotes muscle growth."

Hegseth said his new initiative is "not about artificial enhancement."

The Pentagon did not respond to questions about what research or academic studies underpinned the move. It also didn't say if female troops would be able to be evaluated for estrogen-based therapy as they entered perimenopause.

Sign.

What's the number of post-menopausal women in the military? A couple hundred?

You know, the great bulk of the military is 1, Male, and 2, ages 20 to 40?

And does a deficiency in estrogen reduce performance?

I'm not saying that estrogen replacement isn't important for women. As I understand it, it improves women's lives and was wrongly withheld from women for decades due to flawed studies suggesting it was dangerous.

But we cannot talk about men's issues for one single fucking second without the left shrieking But what about the hundred and fifty postmenopausal women in the military?!! WHAT ABOUT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO MATTER?!

Testosterone levels in men decline naturally with age and have long been linked to issues like erectile dysfunction, low libido, mood changes and weight gain. But experts have debated for years how to diagnose those problems and whether they should be treated by replacing the hormone.

Hegseth's announcement comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump administration officials are moving to make it easier for doctors to prescribe testosterone. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration proposed easing prescribing limits on testosterone gels, pills, patches and injections.

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But many influencers and proponents of Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" movement tout testosterone as a way to look younger, build muscle and stay mentally sharp -- although those uses aren't accepted by most medical experts.

Again, what would we do without experts?

In other health news: There's a trend of AWFULs getting extra covid boosters they don't need just to own the CHUDs.

Oh, and cause a miscarriage, too.

But I don't think these women are likely to be pregnant.

Supposedly "Japanese walking" -- walking at a very brisk, athletic pace for three minutes, then strolling for three minutes, and repeating -- is a very efficient exercise.

It's called Japanese walking, and it's popping up everywhere from group chats to doctors' offices this summer. The idea started with exercise scientists in Matsumoto, Japan, who have spent almost two decades studying it, long before anyone filmed themselves doing it for social media. What makes it different from your usual walk is the timing.

You speed up, then slow down, then speed up again, switching every few minutes instead of holding one pace the whole time. No gym membership, no equipment, just a sidewalk, a track or a treadmill and a willingness to change gears.
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The method comes from exercise scientists at Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan. It's simple. Walk briskly for three minutes, then slow down for three minutes, and repeat for about 30 minutes total.

A five-month study followed 679 middle-aged and older adults and found their peak aerobic capacity climbed by 14%, while a score measuring several disease risk factors improved by 17%. The gains leveled off once fast-walking time passed about 50 minutes a week, so more isn't necessarily better. Steady, one-speed walking over the same stretch of time didn't come close to the same results.

Why Doctors Are on Board

Doctors interviewed in widely read coverage this year say the pace switching pushes your heart harder than an easy stroll, without beating up your joints the way running can. The faster bursts may also keep your body burning a few extra calories after you've stopped walking, an effect linked to interval-style workouts in general.

There's a blood sugar upside, too. Muscles working harder during the fast stretches soak up more glucose, which doctors say could matter most for older adults keeping an eye on their blood sugar.

I'm going to try this. I used to try to walk really fast as exercise. Sometimes I could walk as fast as 13 minutes for a mile.

The problem with that is: It takes a lot of mental effort and concentration. Unless you are literally concentrating in motivating your body to walk much faster than it does naturally all the duration of the walk, you will inevitably just stop walking at that pace. Your body doesn't maintain that pace automatically. You slow down into your normal pace, not because you're tired (though it does take exertion) but just because your brain isn't telling your legs to walk as fast as possible.

You always have to keep mentally focused on keeping the pace as fast as possible, and frankly it's a bitch. If you want to just kind of think and daydream while walking, you're out of luck trying to maintain a fast pace. You will be thinking of walking fast and nothing else.

But... I do think I could keep that kind of mental focus for three minutes, before relaxing into a more normal gait. And then focus again for three minutes. Et cetera.

Keeping focused for 30-40 minutes is hard, but maybe just focusing three minutes at a time is doable.

I have no gains to report. Well, I guess maintenance gains.

Do you have any gains?

Marco Rubio doesn't. And he seems almost proud of that.

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