Beth Clay Health Freedom, Rights of Consumers to Choose Their Pathways of Health

Hosted By Marti Oakley

Guest:  BETH CLAY
Ms. Clay is a health freedom advocate and former Senior Professional Staff Member who lead the health care oversight team on the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight with then Chairman Dan Burton of Indiana. The investigations and conducted hearings included looking at the role of complementary and alternative medicine in our health care system, dietary supplement regulation, the over medicating of very young children labeled with ADHD, vaccine injury and the epidemic increase of rates of autism spectrum disorders.

Background: Ms. Clay first became known in the complementary and alternative medicine community from her work both in the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine and subsequently the United States Congress. She was recruited from the NIH to lead a Congressional inquiry looking at the role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in our health care system. This would expand to look at the implementation of dietary supplement health and education act of 1994. In addition to the government officials who were called before the Committee,

While working for Congress, Ms. Clay served as a member of the US Delegation to the CODEX Alimentarius Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (A WTO level regulatory authority). She has since worked to limit the restrictive impact of CODEX on vitamin and mineral supplements in the United States.

She remains active philanthropically on veterans and children’s health issues. She serves as an International Human Rights Commissioner with the Citizens Commission for Human Rights (www.cchrint.org).