I first became intrigued by the MAHA Moms about 8 months ago. As I disentangled the groups with similar concerns and names — Moms Across America, MAHA Mommas and MAHA Action, among others — I discovered the MAHA Moms Coalition, a “national phone tree” committed to mobilizing Americans to advocate for all our children’s health, a group committed to “people, not profits.”

This Coalition, which has more than 10 million monthly online visits, seemed both aligned to HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and also, according to its website, dedicated to a larger, more inclusive vision: of comprehensive and, wherever possible, non-pharmacalogical approaches to self-care and mutual help; rigorous environmental clean up; the healthcare needs of all of us, including poor and marginalized people; and the power and decision-making authority of all Americans.

Their positions and programs were very similar to the ones which I had been writing about, developing, and advocating for 50 years, to the kinds of change desired by the 95 million adults who National Institutes of Health (NIH) has estimated are using non-reimbursible alternative and complementary forms of healthcare.

When these moms came out publicly against President Donald Trump’s February 18, 2026 Executive Order facilitating the manufacture of glyphosate, the carcinogenic weed-killer, to which RFK Jr., who had previously sued its manufacturer, meekly acquiesced, I was impressed. When, after MAHA Mom leaders were black-balled from Administration meetings and they doubled-down on their principled resistance, the deal was sealed. I had to know more about them.

The differences between us seemed, at least superficially, great. Still, we had so much in common. I wanted to find out who these women were, and if there was a way I could work with them, and also engage others who wanted similar change, but were uneasy about a number of Secretary Kennedy’s policies.

It turned out they were Orange County healthcare providers who identified and advocated as mothers. They had met at the MAHA Ball celebration during Trump’s Inaugural, and they seemed, like Kennedy, skeptical of government engagement in health.

I’m a dad, to be sure, but more visibly, a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist who was for many years a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health. I was chosen by a Democratic President and Senator to be Chair of an NIH advisory council, and a White House Commission.

And yet, like me, they were........

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