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The speaker started their business 25 years ago.

Posted by The Health Ranger Report, Checked

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4 context
Said
1 time·
Confidence
35%
The Health Ranger ReportOct 22, 2026
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The post's speaker (Mike Adams, host of the Health Ranger Report) says 'when I started 25 years ago,' and the claim's paraphrase is faithful.

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What was said

… You've seen our facility here, you know, our food manufacturing and our studio and our laboratory and so on. If I had to try to start to build something like that today, if I were 20 years younger and try to build that today, I think it would be impossible. It was actually easier to do it when I started 25 years ago than it is today. I'm just being honest. Yeah, you know, for so, for somebody in their 20s and say, like, how do, how can I succeed like you succeed? How can I build a business like you built it? Like, dude, it's, it's hard today. It's harder. …
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What we found

Context. Natural News is described as founded in 2008, and the Health Ranger Store as opened in 2012, per the Wikipedia and company About Us pages; neither date is 25 years before 2026.[1][2]

Context. The BBB profile lists the Health Ranger Store's business start as 12/1/2019, which conflicts with the company's own 2012 opening date.[2][3]

Context. A Chris Beat Cancer interview says Adams ran a software company by age 30, but the sources do not date that venture, so it cannot be tied to a start about 25 years ago.[4]

Context. The sources do not identify which business the speaker means by 'what I built here' and do not state when any business started 25 years before the post.

Sources

4 sources: 4 not rated

  1. 1Natural News - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
  2. 2About Ushealthrangerstore.com · not rated · cited for: context
  3. 3Health Ranger Store | BBB Business Profilebbb.org · not rated · cited for: context
  4. 4Mike Adams - The Health Ranger, founder of Natural Newsyoutube.com · not rated · cited for: context

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