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Jonah Dallas Yakel alias Hashtag CIRS Cartel

TikTok · 6922559673934480390

Practice location

11791 W 112TH ST

OVERLAND PARK, KS 66210

Bottom line

Mostly evidence, with a few persuasion patterns mixed in.

  • Of 22 health claims, 5 run counter to or conflict with the published evidence, and 17 were not independently checked.
  • Primary persuasion tactic: Diagnosis-by-hashtag bucket.
  • Stated credentials look inflated relative to the advice given.
  • Gives advice beyond what their license covers.
Dr. Trust Me Bro says

Jonah Yakel is doing the classic chronic-illness keyword dragnet: Alzheimer’s, Lyme, mold, autoimmunity, anxiety, depression, and CIRS all tossed into one little hashtag stew. Very efficient if the business model is making every confused patient think their diagnosis is hidden somewhere inside a functional-medicine funnel.

30/100

Moderate signals

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Score breakdown

40/100
Credentials
The title on the marquee is doing more work than the credential behind it. This doc bro is selling a bigger doctor than they can actually back up.
41/100
Manipulation
The post uses a dense pile of serious-condition hashtags to provoke fear and curiosity without making a testable claim, which is softer than an explicit scam but still classic attention engineering.
18/100
Sales funnel
No supplements, labs, or booking links are visible, so the direct monetization signal is low; still, the chronic-illness hashtag net is a recognizable lead-gen move for future consults or programs.
40/100
Grift map
Scare and search traffic -> chronic illness audience capture -> likely future consult or protocol upsell, but this clip stops at the capture stage and does not yet show the downstream money step.
80/100
Evidence gap
Mainstream evidence does not support treating Alzheimer’s, autoimmune disease, MS, Crohn’s, celiac disease, or rheumatoid arthritis as hashtag buckets for vague functional-medicine branding; those are distinct diseases with specific diagnostic standards and evidence-based management.
28/100
Bro energy
The brand vibe is very much doc-bro search-traffic harvesting for brain fog, mold, Lyme, and autoimmune content, but the absence of an explicit funnel or product pitch keeps it below peak grift territory.

Direct answer

Jonah Dallas Yakel is licensed in Kansas as a chiropractor (DC), not as an MD or DO, and Kansas's chiropractic scope statute (K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)) limits that license to musculoskeletal care, not the diagnosis or treatment of systemic disease. Even so, they advertise diagnosing or treating #CIRS, #depression, #lupus, #celiac, and #brainhealth, conditions that belong with rheumatologists. Those same pages route patients toward paid programs that Jonah Dallas Yakel profits from.

Key findings

  • Cherry-Picked Evidence: The post throws a long list of serious, contested, and highly marketable conditions into one pile without any actual evidence or explanation. That is classic attention capture: name the scariest disorders first, then let the hashtags do the selling.see section ↓
  • Claim "#brainhealth": not supported by peer-reviewed evidence.see section ↓
  • Claim "#cognitivedecline": not supported by peer-reviewed evidence.see section ↓
  • NPI registry confirms Jonah Yakel as Chiropractor (DC) in Kansas (NPI 1619145026).see section ↓
  • Jonah Dallas Yakel shows credential inflation relative to stated vs likely credentials.see section ↓
  • Dr Jonah Dallas Yakel is marketed with a doctor title, but reviewed credentials indicate Chiropractor (DC) rather than an MD/DO physician license.see section ↓
  • Against Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) scope rules (K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)), these advertised activities appear outside Jonah Dallas Yakel's license (including conditions they merely list as ones they treat): #CIRS, #depression, #lupus.see section ↓
  • 22 of 22 advertised activities fall outside permitted Chiropractor scope in KS.see section ↓

Claims & evidence

22 advertised conditions or treatments fall outside their license scope. Each box leads with state-board scope notation; literature cross-check follows when we matched a specific claim. Every card carries its receipts: the quoted wording, a live source link, and an archived copy.

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #CIRS.

#CIRS

No specific health claims of theirs were cross-checked against the literature.

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#CIRS

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #depression.

#depression

No specific health claims of theirs were cross-checked against the literature.

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#depression

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #lupus.

#lupus

No specific health claims of theirs were cross-checked against the literature.

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#lupus

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #celiac.

#celiac

No specific health claims of theirs were cross-checked against the literature.

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#celiac

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #brainhealth.

#brainhealth

Supports
The influencer’s claim is just the hashtag “brainhealth” and does not contain any specific, testable statement (for example, about a treatment, supplement, diagnostic, lifestyle practice, or risk factor). Therefore, none of the indexed papers can be said to specifically support this vague claim. More broadly, there is extensive high‑quality evidence that many factors (blood pressure, lipids, physical activity, cognitive training, nutrition, sleep, and treatment of neurodegenerative disease) affect brain health and dementia risk, but this general concept is too unspecific to map onto the claim as written. Systematic reviews and major guidelines on dementia prevention and treatment support the general idea that brain health is an important and legitimate medical focus, but they do not validate any particular intervention associated with this hashtag.
Contradicts
Because the claim consists only of the tag “brainhealth” with no attached recommendation, mechanism, or product, there is nothing concrete for available evidence to contradict. The indexed trials and reviews address topics unrelated or only tangentially related to brain health (DNA sequencing in clinical practice, anesthesia adjuncts, oral surgery healing, treatment of cryptosporidiosis in AIDS, ivermectin for COVID‑19, regenerative endodontics, lipid‑lowering angiographic outcomes, and EGb 761 dementia trials). None of these directly refute the broad notion that brain health is important; they simply do not speak to any specific claim that might be implied by the hashtag.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medicine recognizes brain health as an important concept encompassing cognition, mood, neurodegenerative disease risk, and neurological function across the lifespan. Major guidelines on dementia, stroke, and mental health emphasize modifiable risk factors (cardiovascular risk control, physical activity, diet, sleep, avoidance of neurotoxins) as evidence‑based strategies that influence brain health. However, professional bodies also emphasize that specific interventions, drugs, supplements, or technologies marketed under a “brain health” banner must be evaluated individually through rigorous trials and systematic reviews; the hashtag itself carries no evidence‑based meaning. The mainstream position is that brain health is a valid clinical and public‑health focus, but one must be cautious not to infer efficacy or safety of any particular product or practice from the mere use of the term. Deterministic PubMed cross-check found no matching indexed studies for these terms (absence of indexed evidence is not evidence against the claim).
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#brainhealth

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Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #cognitivedecline.

#cognitivedecline

Supports
The influencer claim is just a hashtag (#cognitivedecline) and does not contain a specific assertion (for example, about a cause, treatment, or prevention strategy), so there is no concrete claim here that can be directly supported by the four index trials provided. High-quality evidence from guidelines and systematic reviews shows that cognitive decline and dementia are strongly associated with modifiable risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, smoking, harmful alcohol use, sedentary lifestyle, social isolation, hearing loss, and unhealthy diet, and that managing these factors can modestly reduce risk.[11][7][8][9][16][19][21] Major guidelines from WHO and others state that multidomain lifestyle and risk-factor interventions (physical activity, tobacco cessation, healthy Mediterranean-like diet, weight management, blood pressure and diabetes control, cognitive training, social engagement) can help prevent or delay cognitive decline and dementia, although effects are typically modest.[3][5][7][9][11][20] Systematic reviews and trials of cognitive training, resistance exercise, and multidomain programs report small but positive effects on global cognition in older adults with normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment.[2][4][6][10][12]
Contradicts
Because the influencer content does not specify any proposition (for example, that cognitive decline is inevitable, that a particular supplement cures it, or that a single factor fully explains it), there is no explicit statement that can be directly contradicted by the four index studies. High-quality evidence does contradict several common influencer narratives about cognitive decline: major guidelines explicitly do not recommend routine supplementation with vitamins B or E, omega-3 fatty acids, or multivitamins/minerals for risk reduction in the absence of deficiency, due to lack of benefit and potential harms.[3][5][11] Evidence also indicates that single-factor or short-term interventions have limited impact; multidomain, sustained approaches are more plausible, and even these provide only modest risk reduction rather than dramatic prevention or reversal.[2][6][9][20] There is no robust evidence that currently available interventions can fully stop or reverse age-related cognitive decline or definitively prevent dementia in most individuals, which contradicts any absolute or cure-like claims often made in influencer content.[6][9][15][17][18]
Mainstream view
The mainstream medical and scientific view is that cognitive decline and dementia arise from a combination of nonmodifiable factors (age, genetics, family history) and multiple modifiable risk factors (cardiovascular, metabolic, lifestyle, psychosocial, and environmental).[8][9][11][16][18] Current high-quality evidence and major guidelines agree that there is no cure for most dementias, but a substantial fraction of risk—on the order of one-third to nearly half—may be preventable or delayable through management of modifiable risk factors across the life course.[3][5][7][9][11][20] Recommended strategies include maintaining regular physical activity, avoiding tobacco and limiting alcohol, following a healthy Mediterranean-like or similar diet, managing hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and obesity, treating depression and hearing loss, and promoting cognitive, social, and sensory engagement.[3][7][8][9][11][19][21] Cognitive training and other nonpharmacologic cognitive interventions are considered reasonable options to help maintain or modestly improve cognitive function in healthy older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment, but they are not regarded as stand-alone cures and their effects are generally modest and short to medium term.[2][4][6][10][12] Overall, mainstream medicine views cognitive decline as partly modifiable but not fully preventable, emphasizes multidomain, long-term risk reduction, and discourages unproven quick-fix solutions or supplement-based cures.[3][5][6][9][11] Deterministic PubMed cross-check found no matching indexed studies for these terms (absence of indexed evidence is not evidence against the claim).
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#cognitivedecline

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Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #demenia.

#demenia

Supports
The influencer’s claim is too vague (“#demenia”) to map to a specific intervention, risk factor, or treatment, so it cannot be directly supported or refuted by the indexed papers; none of the listed trials or reviews specifically evaluate a broad social media hashtag claim. [13][14] High‑quality evidence and guidelines do exist around dementia diagnosis, pharmacologic and non‑pharmacologic management, and prevention, but they support specific, defined statements (for example, that cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine are effective for symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer’s dementia, or that multidomain lifestyle interventions can modestly reduce dementia risk), not an undefined influencer claim. [11] The systematic review and meta‑analysis of clinical dementia trials with EGb 761 shows clinically meaningful improvements in activities of daily living and global endpoints at a dose of 240 mg/day, indicating some evidence for this specific extract in dementia care, but again this does not validate a general hashtag claim. [9][10]
Contradicts
Because the influencer’s statement is essentially just a hashtag without a substantive assertion about dementia (no claim about a treatment, cure, prevention strategy, or causal mechanism), current evidence cannot be said to directly contradict it; instead, the problem is that the claim is unspecified and therefore not testable against data. [9][11] Where influencers often imply simple cures or dramatic reversals of dementia, that kind of message would be contradicted by mainstream evidence showing that dementia is generally chronic and progressive, with available interventions offering symptomatic relief or modest risk reduction rather than cures.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medical and scientific consensus is that dementia is a clinical syndrome with multiple etiologies (most commonly Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia), characterized by progressive cognitive and functional decline, typically requiring a combination of pharmacologic treatments (such as cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in Alzheimer’s disease) and structured non‑pharmacologic interventions (rehabilitation, cognitive stimulation, caregiver support). [10] Large trials and systematic reviews support multidomain lifestyle interventions (diet, physical activity, cognitive training, vascular risk factor control) as modestly effective for reducing dementia risk or slowing cognitive decline, particularly in at‑risk populations, but these do not amount to a simple, guaranteed prevention or cure. [11] Specific agents like standardized Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 have meta‑analytic evidence of benefit on cognition, activities of daily living, and neuropsychiatric symptoms at appropriate dosing, and expert consensus positions it as a possible adjunct therapy aligned with guideline‑based care, not a standalone cure. [9] Overall, mainstream practice emphasizes evidence‑based, guideline‑concordant treatment and realistic expectations about what current therapies can and cannot achieve in dementia.
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#demenia

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Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #alzheimers.

#alzheimers

Supports
The influencer’s tag #alzheimers by itself is too vague to constitute a specific medical claim, but if interpreted as implying that Alzheimer’s disease is preventable or modifiable, there is moderate evidence that certain interventions can lower risk or modestly slow progression. Large systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational and randomized studies show that physical activity, vascular risk-factor management, and homocysteine-lowering with B vitamins are associated with reduced Alzheimer’s risk or improved cognitive endpoints, although causality is not fully proven.[11][12][19][22] Narrative and systematic reviews also support that healthy dietary patterns (Mediterranean, MIND diet) and broader lifestyle bundles are linked to lower dementia or Alzheimer’s risk and may delay onset.[6][8][10][14][15][21][24][25] Recent high-quality trials of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (e.g., lecanemab, donanemab) demonstrate a clear but modest slowing of cognitive and functional decline in early-stage Alzheimer’s, which supports the idea that pathophysiology-targeted treatment can alter disease trajectory.[15][18][20][21] Consensus guidance from major agencies emphasizes that multifactorial lifestyle interventions, combined with optimal management of cardiovascular risk and emerging disease-modifying drugs, represent evidence-based strategies to reduce risk and slow progression, even though none fully prevents or cures Alzheimer’s.[11][14][15][19][21][22][24][25]
Contradicts
The generic hashtag #alzheimers could be interpreted as implying cure or complete prevention, and high-quality evidence contradicts any claim that Alzheimer’s disease is currently curable or that any single intervention can definitively prevent it. Multiple authoritative reviews and guideline-level summaries explicitly state that, to date, no randomized clinical trial has conclusively demonstrated that any intervention of any kind can prevent dementia or Alzheimer’s.[14][21][22] Reviews of diet, exercise, nutraceuticals, traditional Chinese medicine, and other nonpharmacologic interventions consistently find observational and mechanistic support but emphasize that evidence is encouraging yet inconclusive, limited by study design, heterogeneity, and lack of long-term randomized trials.[5][6][8][9][10][11][19][21][22] Even disease-modifying therapies such as anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies show only modest slowing of decline, not reversal or cure, and are restricted to early-stage disease with significant safety and access considerations.[15][18][20][21] Fact-checking analyses further refute specific influencer narratives that nicotine or other single agents can cure or robustly prevent Alzheimer’s, highlighting that such uses remain experimental and unapproved.[23] Overall, current evidence contradicts any strong influencer claim that Alzheimer’s is fully preventable or curable through simple lifestyle changes, supplements, or off-label substances.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medical and scientific consensus is that Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with complex multifactorial causes, including age, genetics, and modifiable vascular and lifestyle risk factors. There is no cure at present, and no intervention has been proven in randomized trials to definitively prevent Alzheimer’s, but certain strategies are considered evidence-based or promising for risk reduction and modest slowing of progression.[11][14][19][21][22][24][25] Standard of care includes symptomatic pharmacologic treatment (cholinesterase inhibitors, memantine) and, in selected early-stage patients, disease-modifying anti-amyloid therapies that modestly slow decline.[15][18][20][21] Major public health and guideline bodies recommend a comprehensive approach: control of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risks, regular physical activity, cognitively stimulating activities, smoking cessation, moderation of alcohol intake, and adoption of healthy dietary patterns such as Mediterranean or MIND-like diets to reduce overall dementia and Alzheimer’s risk, with the caveat that evidence remains encouraging but not definitive.[11][14][15][19][21][22][24][25] Influencer content implying simple cures or guaranteed prevention is not aligned with this mainstream position. Deterministic PubMed cross-check found no matching indexed studies for these terms (absence of indexed evidence is not evidence against the claim).
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#alzheimers

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Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #functionalmedicine.

#functionalmedicine

Supports
No high-quality evidence in the provided index papers supports the isolated claim “#functionalmedicine” as a specific medical assertion. The only potentially relevant indexed item is a systematic review on EGb 761 for dementia, which is about a specific herbal extract rather than functional medicine as a whole . [13][14]
Contradicts
The claim is not a substantive medical proposition, so it cannot be directly supported or contradicted by the indexed papers. [13][14] The available index list is mostly unrelated clinical-trial or review items, and none provide evidence that “functional medicine” as a broad category is an evidence-based, standardized medical discipline. The absence of direct peer-reviewed evidence in the provided index list makes the claim unsupported rather than contradicted.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medicine treats functional medicine as a loosely defined practice style rather than a distinct evidence-based specialty. Individual tests or treatments used by some functional-medicine practitioners may be evidence-based if supported by separate guidelines or trials, but the umbrella label itself does not have a consistent, high-quality evidence base. [13][14]
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#functionalmedicine

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Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #inflammation.

#inflammation

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#inflammation

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #toxins.

#toxins

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#toxins

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #mold.

#mold

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#mold

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #moldillness.

#moldillness

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#moldillness

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #lymedisease.

#lymedisease

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#lymedisease

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #chronicillness.

#chronicillness

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#chronicillness

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #chronicinflammatoryresponsesyndrome.

#chronicinflammatoryresponsesyndrome

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#chronicinflammatoryresponsesyndrome

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #chronicinflammation.

#chronicinflammation

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#chronicinflammation

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #anxiety.

#anxiety

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#anxiety

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #autoimmunedisease.

#autoimmunedisease

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#autoimmunedisease

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #ms.

#ms

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#ms

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #crohns.

#crohns

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#crohns

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Outside scopeListed service

Jonah Dallas Yakel is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure #rheumatoidarthritis.

#rheumatoidarthritis

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#rheumatoidarthritis

Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)

Manipulation

Critical

Cherry-Picked Evidence

transcript · cited

The post throws a long list of serious, contested, and highly marketable conditions into one pile without any actual evidence or explanation. That is classic attention capture: name the scariest disorders first, then let the hashtags do the selling. Likely motive: Signal expertise across many chronic diseases and pull in viewers searching for those diagnoses

#brainhealth #cognitivedecline #demenia #alzheimers #functionalmedicine #inflammation #toxins #mold #moldillness #lymedisease #CIRS #chronicillness #chronicinflammatoryresponsesyndrome #chronicinflammation #anxiety #depression #autoimmunedisease #lupus #ms #crohns #celiac #rheumatoidarthritis

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Critical

False Authority

transcript · cited

The hashtag suggests a medicine-adjacent authority role without showing any actual diagnostic or treatment evidence. Functional-medicine branding often functions as a credibility wrapper for claims about root causes, toxins, mold, and chronic illness that are not established by mainstream evidence. Likely motive: Borrow medical legitimacy while staying vague enough to avoid direct falsification

#functionalmedicine

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Commerce & grift map

This clip does not show a direct product funnel, but the condition-heavy tagging looks like top-of-funnel lead capture for chronic illness, cognitive decline, mold, Lyme, and autoimmune anxiety. That sort of audience targeting often precedes a sales path built on scare content, root-cause framing, and later consults or proprietary protocols.

Critical

No FTC-style compensation disclosure

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Credentials & scope

Glossary: Chiropractor (“Dr.”)

Stated: none · Likely: Chiropractor

Verified against the federal provider registry: D.C. · Chiropractor · KS license 0105307.

Jonah Yakel presents with a doctor title but the clip itself does not establish an MD or DO license. The disease-heavy hashtag stack strongly suggests broad medical authority claims across neurology, autoimmune disease, and chronic illness that would require very careful credential and scope scrutiny.

  • Chiropractor (DC), Doctor of Chiropractic

    Kansas DCs are regulated by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. Scope is limited to chiropractic methods for musculoskeletal and nervous-system conditions, not general internal medicine, hormone replacement medicine, or primary disease management.

    Confirmed against the federal provider registry

Permitted scope vs advertised

Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) · Confidence: low

Kansas chiropractic law defines chiropractic as the diagnosis and treatment of the human condition and all of its diseases by spinal adjustments, manipulation, or other chiropractic methods, while excluding prescription drugs, surgery, and obstetrics. The board’s published materials also describe chiropractors in Kansas as licensed by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts as practitioners of the healing arts. [2]

What this license permits

  • Spinal adjustment and manipulation
  • Musculoskeletal evaluation and treatment
  • Soft-tissue and rehabilitative care
  • Headache care within musculoskeletal scope

22 of 22 advertised activities fall outside permitted scope.

AdvertisedVerdict
Listed service #CIRS
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Outside scope
Listed service #depression
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Outside scope
Listed service #lupus
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Outside scope
Listed service #celiac
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Outside scope
Listed service #brainhealth
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #cognitivedecline
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #demenia
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #alzheimers
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #functionalmedicine
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #inflammation
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #toxins
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #mold
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #moldillness
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #lymedisease
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #chronicillness
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #chronicinflammatoryresponsesyndrome
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #chronicinflammation
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #anxiety
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #autoimmunedisease
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #ms
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #crohns
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope
Listed service #rheumatoidarthritis
Rule: K.S.A. §65-2871 (Kansas Healing Arts Act)
Not listed among permitted DC scope activities under the governing practice act.
Outside scope

Sources: Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, About Chiropractic (official)

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