Radio Interview with NHA Chair Paddy Fahy
May 2, 2023Therapeutic Products Act – Is it the final nail in the coffin for the natural health industry?
July 21, 2023Wellington Public Meeting on the Therapeutic Products Bill, 2 May 2023
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Natural Health Alliance hosted a public meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, on the impact that the Therapeutic Products Bill will have on consumers of natural health products in New Zealand and how it will affect the ability of people to manage their own health.
The Therapeutic Products Bill proposed that natural health therapies, the sort of things that consumers buy at a health shop and which are currently regulated through the Food Act, should be intensively regulated the same way that synthetic manufactured allopathic medicines such as vaccines or serums are regulated, this is despite the fact that no-one has ever died from using natural health products. The natural products industry is not the same as Big Pharma and the medical industrial complex. More than half of all Kiwis use natural health products in their daily lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Paddy Fahy
Paddy Fahy is the chairman of the Natural Health Alliance. Paddy has been in the natural heath industry for over 20 years and is well-known in the industry for his passion and commitment and believes in the power of natural remedies to aid better health. This battle to regulate natural health products is not Paddy’s first time opposing this unnecessary government overreach, he fought it in 2007 and again in 2017.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uhF2QCjTUQ”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1684453910553{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Lisa Hansen
Lisa Hansen is a Wellington-based barrister and solicitor and represents the New Zealand Health Trust. Lisa gave a detailed explanation of the legal issues the Therapeutic Products Bill will have on Kiwi consumers and health practitioners when it becomes law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adHCKgMom-g”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1684453910553{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Gary Moller
Gary Moller is a Wellington, New Zealand, based health practitioner and has been fully immersed in natural health remedies and preventative medicine since 1972, either studying or working in the field. He has three tertiary qualifications in Physical Education, rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Gary is a huge proponent of preventative medicine using natural products and has run a successful clinic for many years.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WphEmCL7Stw”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1684453910553{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Rt Hon Winston Peters
The Rt Hon Winston Peters is New Zealand’s longest serving politician, entering Parliament in 1979. He is the leader of New Zealand First political party, which he started in 1993 after leaving the then ruling National Party. Mr. Peters successfully overturned similar attempts to regulate natural health products in 2007 and 2017, and has thrown his support behind efforts to overturn the Therapeutic Products Bill.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPgT21GZsk&t=10s”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1684453910553{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Dr Bruce Dooley
American medical practitioner, Dr. Bruce Dooley, who now makes Takaka, Golden Bay, South Island of New Zealand his home, gave a presentation to the public meeting on the Therapeutic Products Bill held in Wellington, New Zealand, in May 2023. Bruce has been practicing Functional C.A.M. Integrative Medicine since 1990.
The Therapeutic Products Bill proposed that natural health therapies, the sort of things that consumers buy at a health shop and which are currently regulated through the Food Act, should be intensively regulated the same way that synthetic manufactured allopathic medicines such as vaccines or serums are regulated, this is despite the fact that no-one has ever died from using natural health products. The natural products industry is not the same as Big Pharma and the medical industrial complex. More than half of all Kiwis use natural health products in their daily lives.
Through Dr. Dooley’s work, he understood the influence that medical boards have on how health is practiced and managed in the Western world. In the mid 1990s, Bruce ran into opposition from the Florida Board of Medicine over his advocating EDTA Chelation Therapy for arterial disease. As a result of this battle and his being on the Board of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine (a 1,200-strong CAM physician organisation), he learned about the 110-year-old Federation of State Medical Boards. Attending two of FSMB’s annual meetings “undercover” in 1998 and 1999, he then gave testimony in Washington DC before the 2001 Clinton White House Commission on CAM and revealed FSMB’s massive control over the U.S. Medical Boards and their efforts to wipe out CAM and other natural therapies.
Bruce has a Bachelor of Science from St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia), a Masters of Science in Immunology at Villanova University (Pennsylvania), and earnt his Medical Degree at Thomas Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvmtjtAsM0A&t=1s”][/vc_column][/vc_row]