I was halfway through a three-week silent darkness retreat in a subterranean salt cave beneath Telluride when I received the notification. Usually, I keep my devices fully powered down to protect my pineal gland from cellular radiation, but my wellness concierge had flagged an alert of such profound national healing that it bypassed my firewall. President Trump had dismissed hundreds of top expert volunteers from federal science advisory boards. As the ambient hum of the Himalayan salt scrub washed over me, I felt a deep, resonant shift in the country's chakras. Finally, a leader willing to put the administrative state on a juice cleanse.
For years, the federal government has suffered from a chronic, undiagnosed condition: empirical inflammation. By recruiting thousands of so-called experts to constantly monitor pressing research issues of the day, the bureaucracy was quite literally obsessing itself into a state of disease. These panels of scientists, researchers, and data-addicts were acting as a hyperactive autoimmune response, attacking the free market with peer-reviewed white papers every time a corporation tried to introduce a novel chemical into our groundwater.
The researchers who were let go are now running to the legacy media, claiming that these cuts to science advisory boards will have long-lasting consequences. To which I say: exactly. When you eliminate toxins from your diet, the vitality you experience is absolutely long-lasting. What these dismissed academics call a consequence, I call a breakthrough in holistic deregulation.
As a clinician, I see patients every day who are paralyzed by information overload. They read a study about microplastics, and suddenly their cortisol spikes, their digestion stalls, and they are incapable of enjoying a simple meal out of a synthetic clamshell container. The federal government was suffering from the exact same anxiety disorder. The Environmental Protection Agency alone had dozens of advisory committees constantly whispering worst-case scenarios into the ears of policymakers. It is impossible to manifest economic growth when your advisory boards are trapped in a low-frequency vibration of risk assessment.
Consider the sheer negativity of the individuals who used to occupy these roles. These were people who volunteered their free time—a massive red flag indicating a severe lack of personal boundaries—simply to look at spreadsheets and point out flaws in industrial agriculture. I recently reached out to one of the dismissed scientists to try and help her process her trauma, and the interaction only confirmed how desperately this purge was needed.
We were literally just trying to ensure that industrial runoff doesn't mutate the local amphibian population or cause spontaneous hemorrhaging in toddlers.
Notice the fear-based messaging? The fixation on mutation? This is the exact kind of toxic catastrophizing that prevents the body politic from healing. If we constantly shield our children from every single industrial byproduct, how will their immune systems ever learn to adapt to a modern, deregulated environment? A little spontaneous hemorrhaging is often just the body's way of releasing stagnant energy.
The Trump administration's approach is actually deeply aligned with ancient Ayurvedic principles. By stripping away the layers of bureaucratic oversight, they are engaging in a form of regulatory fasting. Just as the human body enters autophagy when deprived of calories, consuming its own damaged cells to survive, a government starved of scientific advice will naturally begin to consume its own restrictive policies.
Last week, I had the privilege of touring the decommissioned headquarters of the FDA's Food Advisory Committee with a few forward-thinking allies in the administration. The space, once choked with the suffocating energy of clinical trials and additive regulations, had been cleared out entirely. The fluorescent lights were off. A single palo santo stick burned in the corner where the binder of artificial sweetener data used to sit. The emptiness was profound. It was a space where true, intuitive governance could finally breathe.
Over a macrobiotic lunch at the Trump International Hotel, I spoke with one of the architects of this beautiful dismantling. He explained that the dismissal of these hundreds of scientists was not an attack on knowledge, but rather a pivot toward a more somatic understanding of public policy.
Once you starve the federal government of empirical evidence for a period of 48 to 72 months, the state enters a natural process of autophagy, consuming its own restrictive environmental policies to survive.
It makes perfect sense when you remove the ego of the scientific method. Why do we need a panel of infectious disease experts telling us how to manage a pandemic when we can simply trust the natural frequencies of the free market? When the CDC relies on volunteer epidemiologists, they are outsourcing their intuition to people who are entirely disconnected from the healing power of corporate tax cuts.
And let us be honest about the concept of empirical data: it is inherently biased toward the physical realm. The dismissed experts at the National Institutes of Health were exclusively focused on the material manifestations of disease. They completely ignored the spiritual benefits of allowing a population to organically process a preventable illness without the crutch of early intervention.
The critics argue that without these science advisory boards, the government will be flying blind on issues like climate change and chemical safety. But flying blind is just another term for trusting your inner guidance system. When you close your eyes, your other senses are heightened. Without the constant, nagging data about rising sea levels, the administration is finally free to intuitively feel its way toward expanding offshore drilling, unburdened by the heavy, restrictive energy of consensus.
We are already seeing the incredible, rejuvenating effects of replacing these rigid academics with individuals who understand the power of belief. The new appointees to the remaining advisory boards are not constrained by traditional degrees or peer-reviewed publications. They are thought leaders, wellness influencers, and energy workers who understand that a clean environment is a state of mind, not a measurable metric of parts per million.
The previous board spent six months studying the efficacy of a malaria vaccine, when a simple intention-setting ceremony and a jade egg could have aligned the affected populations with a mosquito-free frequency.
This is the paradigm shift we have been waiting for. A government that stops asking what the evidence shows and starts asking what feels aligned with our highest profit margins. It is a beautiful, restorative process, and it requires us to silence the noise of the experts who have held us back for so long.
So, to the hundreds of scientists who received their dismissal notices, I say this: thank you for your service, but your journey with the federal government is complete. Take this time to go inward. Do your own research. Perhaps try a sound bath. And allow the rest of us to finally enjoy the pure, unadulterated wellness that can only come from total, blissful ignorance.