Derek Beres

YOU NEED MORE PROTEIN BRO! Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall’s book, Food Intelligence, explores the roots of the wellness industry in non-scientifically backed protein supplements, and shows why you’re almost definitely getting enough protein.

Insurance companies don’t cover CGMs for prediabetes? Yet another reason MAHA is not about actual preventive care.

Once again, RFK Jr uses his government podcast to promote anti-science rhetoric.

Cory Booker pitching Blue MAHA ain’t it.

Naturopathic influencer is against socialized medicine because…

Sorry UK, you created Russell Brand, you’re going to have to deal with him.

Powdered testicles are NOT a “functional” way to get peptides. Also, Magellan just had to get in frame today.

The new USDA requirement for SNAP-authorized stores is going to give low-income communities, which already suffer the worst health outcomes, even less access to food. MAHA has never been about health.

The back door way Trump and Kennedy are trying to reduce the number of vaccines and cut social program costs.

The only existential crisis here is RFK Jr.

Wellness influencers never let fear of a virus go unmonetized.

Just as anti-vax activism is as old as vaccines, the anti-psychiatry crowd has been around for generations. This is just the latest incarnation.

MAHA continues to block actual science from happening.

I talk to lawyer and strategist Dax-Devlon Ross about what this week's ruling on the Voting Rights Act means for America. In this clip, he explains why "colorblind" doesn't mean what the right is pretending it does. Full episode here: derekberes.substack.com/p/voting-rig...

Casey Means is out and MAHA is flailing.

How will MAHA’s wellness influencers pivot left when the time comes? 🤔

Turns out RFK Jr loves getting that pharma money.

The one certain thing from the Correspondents’ Dinner.

ICYMI here’s MAHA’s #1 Christian laying down his deep biblical knowledge. Enjoy.

Wellness influencers are horrible, broken people. Seriously.

Unsurprising that RFK Jr doesn’t know how math works either. Repeating it on multiple days doesn’t somehow make it correct. Even the “rise” isn’t right.

When a chiropractor says the “greatest health book ever written is the bible,” you know you’re in for a treat.

Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry, out today. www.derekberes.com/well-enough....

Next up on MAHA Books is…anti-parasitics for cancer treatment 🙄🤬🖕🏼

MAHA is doing generational damage to public health.

Worst Subway Takes ever but Kareem still nails it.

Biohackers might have gotten it wrong???

Emmy nomination! My reporting with Alexander Stockton for @nytimes.com is nominated for “Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Getting that sweet Pfizer money since wellness activists claim they’re dropping off boxes of ticks on farms to ensure we’re all gonna need that Lyme jab (which doesn’t exist yet).

YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT PFIZER IS DOING

MAHA’s SNAP restrictions have nothing to do with health.

Always a chiropractor…

My review of Russell Brand’s new book on Christianity.