Dr. Gary Null & The Missing Link
By far the best secular and practical approach to health and wellness, as well as socio-political commentary, can be heard Monday through Friday at noon to 1 p.m. Eastern, on WBAI 99.5 and on Prn.fm online about an hour later.
Born and raised in the rust-belt state of West Virginia, Gary Null speaks openly about his need to shrug off the white “trash” moniker and white “supremacist” history of his hometown, yet still nostalgically reaching for a simpler time in America — and by no means Donald Trump’s America of old. So as a youth he determined to carve out a progressive future, turning down a lifestyle that indulged in large daily servings of fat back pork ribs, 20-inch cut New York strip steaks, and six pack Natural Light Beers that were supposed to nourish blue-collar lumber workers, but instead shortened their lifespan, broke families, and ultimately snuffed out any remnant of a quaint Appalachian life.
The Gary Null Show, in the first fifteen or so minutes, does well in promoting easy and affordable natural, self-healing practices and common-sense health tips. For instance, on recent show he stated that non-sectarian fasting for 13 hours has been shown reduce breast cancer in women (8.31 show). That is eating an early dinner, say around 7 p.m., and not eating again — at least not whole foods; liquids are permissible — until breakfast the next day at 8 a.m. On another show he cited that diet and exercise can reduce the protein build up that leads to Alzheimer’s (8.30 show); while in a previous show he illustrated that calcium can lower your colo-rectal cancer risk (8.18 show); and in another show, yet, pointed out that mastication, chewing food slowly and deliberately, increases metabolism and decreases bloating.
In the second forty-five minute segment of his daily show, Gary Null also throws in a sober and in depth analysis of current affairs. Because like Mark Twain said, we should “never let schooling interfere with education.” Not only Twain, but also because Jay told Nas to smarten up on Takeover — so Nas did, and kicked knowledge on Ether. As such, Gary Null issues impressive socio-political tirades and comments and invites guests to discuss critical issues. He has a diverse range and eclectic perspective on a whole host of important topics: the deleterious looming Transpacific Partnership Trade Agreement, the C.D.C cover-up of autism studies, the high medical costs and low health outcomes, infant mortality increases, over 50% GDP for military spending, largest incarceration population per capita in the world, regressive GMO laws, unabated fossil fuels in lieu of renewables, expanded policing of children at schools, rampant racism in education and employment, debtors prisons, increase of SWAT teams for minor infractions, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s accurate assassination, Climate change and weather modification (8.12 show), The Clinton Foundation in Haiti, A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump’s America (8.16 show), and so on. To be frank, an hour of this show coupled with few other choice reports — ITM Trading, Max Keiser Show, etc. — is worth two months, three months, even six months of news from mainstream media! If you care about what is really happening in this country, it behooves you, Jigga, Twain, and Nas, to tune in and catch an episode once in a while.
Gary Null also owns a Whole Foods Store in Upper Manhattan, and often repeats on air, about tongue and cheek conversations with his 1% wealthy, mostly uninformed, far-removed from reality, liberal neighbors on the Upper West Side (UWS), that see the world “as it should be rather than as it is” — or, in the words of Gary Null, afraid to “look at the face of the savage” American “beast” system. The juxtaposition of his UWS experiences to his humble post-Depression beginnings in the very white West Virginia Appalachian state, typifies a Ross Perot independent and a Jill Stein progressive yearning for a better and fairer American society that can afford mankind to live in peace. Only he proposes an exclusively man-centered solution to the world’s ills.
Herein, at this last thesis, is where Gary Null and I take different paths — though judging from a recurring Negro spirituals “Oh, Happy Day” by The Edwin Hawkins Singers (made famous by Aretha Franklin) and Natalie Cole’s “This Will Be” opening to his show (7.27 show), I maintain that he reserves some faith in Christian Doctrine and Divinity. Still, his yoga and meditation remedies suggest a questionable dissociative, new-age approach to the problem of angry nations and the angry people in them. See, a Jill Stein Presidency will not bring salvation to earth — I trust Gary Null knows this — nor cure all its problems. Nonetheless reaching for his childhood innocence and grasping for Horatio and De Tocqueville’s America (and I’m sure to make a handsome living), Gary Null makes colorful exhortations of mankind to do better, while mankind is here on earth, through mankind’s own efforts. But despite this flailing utopic idealism, millions of listeners tune in often— including yours truly — and are right there with Gary Null, whence he proposes or challenges the system with real and tangible solutions.
Gary Null is the healthy, sharp, slick, piqued version of the guy from the Dos Equis commercials. He is optimistically skeptical about the future, holding out hope for black people and white people to live out King’s dream of playing in the yard together.
I wish that Gary Null would acknowledge the temporal limitations of mankind, and once include the primacy of health and wellness in context of Scripture. He may then have a more hopeful eternal message. Whether known to him or not, most of his healthy living attributes and tips go all the way back to Creation. The Genesis pre-fall and post-flood antediluvian diet in the respective Garden of Eden and by the plains of Mount Ararat was solely plant based (flesh was introduced after the flood as a temporary fix for the submerged fauna and flora). So too was the diet of Daniel and his acolytes at the hands of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, which eventually made the king a believer in the Hebrew boy’s God. Furthermore, Jesus turned water into wine and fed five thousand fish, but the new wine was from the fruit of the grape (not the old wine that David warned against) and fish that he created whole and clean to feed the hungry. While fish and other flesh may have been sufficient to consume two thousand years ago, since at least Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, which documented the poor standards of American food production and, certainly as Gary Null has said, since methane production via the meat and poultry production industry adds to climate disruption more than any other human activity, it is now definitely not safe to trust your local fisheries, meatpacking districts, and chicken spots today. In fact, it’s equally unsafe to depend on plant-based foods produced by commercial agribusiness companies such as Monsanto.
I think Gary Null, Twain, Jay and Nas would agree that a natural vegan and organic vegetarian lifestyle offers veritable meat substitutes that are wholesome, delicious, and of spiritual value. Overall, The Gary Null Show — excluding the transcendental meditation stuff — is a useful journey into progressive geo-politics and practical healthy living, that may best be understood within the philosophy of “pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, proper exercise, the use of water, and trust in divine power — these are the true remedies” of life. For, where the “the laws of nature, being laws of God, are designed for our good. Obedience to them promotes happiness in this life and aids in preparation for the life to come.” (Ministry of Healing, 127 & 146, E.G. White.)
