Stand for Health Freedom Petition — "Alternative” health is on the chopping block - stop the elimination of NCCIH! (posted 05/14/26)

The following is copied from an email received 5/14/26. Please consider signing this petition.

For years, Americans have been told there’s “not enough evidence” for nutrition, chiropractic care, supplements, acupuncture, and other non-drug approaches to health.

Now the federal government wants to eliminate the very agency responsible for researching them.

The White House’s proposed budget would shut down the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), the only NIH center focused on whole-person, non-pharmaceutical health research.

Send Congress a message today:

Americans do not want drug-centered medicine to have a monopoly on healthcare.

TAKE ACTION:

NCCIH has helped build the scientific support for non-drug and non-addictive approaches to pain care, including therapies that have helped reduce reliance on opioids during the opioid crisis.

The center has also funded research into supplements, whole-person health, and how nutrition, lifestyle, and integrative therapies affect the body. Its research has even helped the Veterans Health Administration expand “Whole Health” care for the men and women who served our country.

Because NCCIH focuses on prevention, nutrition, and non-drug therapies instead of pharmaceutical development, it has often been overlooked during budget fights. But at a time when Americans are demanding more health freedom and more focus on root-cause healing, this should be the moment we expand this research, not eliminate it.

Tell Congress today: Americans want research into all approaches to health, not just pharmaceutical ones.

Yours in health freedom,

Stand for Health Freedom