An author who builds archives.

Formation

Sayer Ji is an American author, investigative journalist and founder. In interviews he has said that part of his early childhood was spent in Dortmund, Germany, where his father, a scientist, worked at the Max Planck Institute, and that illness shaped his childhood. His father is the Rutgers cell biologist Sungchul Ji. The two collaborate on various projects and share an interest in the application of science, philosophy and biomedicine to healing; Dr. Ji’s work is gathered at The Human RNA Project. Of the turn toward nutrition he told NPR in 2021: “it really wasn’t until I was 17 that I learned some basic principles of nutrition and self care.” NPR

He studied philosophy at Rutgers University, graduating in 1995, with a focus on phenomenology and the philosophy of science; a profile in NDNR says he studied under the philosopher Bruce W. Wilshire. After a residency at Zen Mountain Monastery he spent five years as a counselor-teacher and wilderness-therapy specialist with youth programs in New Jersey and New Hampshire, then managed an organic market in Bonita Springs, Florida. The Naples Daily News profiled him there in 2006 under the headline “Health food store manager finds career by accident.”

The archive

In 2008 he founded GreenMedInfo, an open-access index of peer-reviewed research on foods, herbs, nutrients and other natural interventions, drawn from the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed. The library held about 23,000 research articles in 2016. The 2026 relaunch distinguishes three layers: 109,794 editor-curated studies, 455,750 linked to a substance or condition, and more than 28 million PubMed records indexed.

He has been an advisor to the National Health Federation since January 2016, and his writing has appeared in Truthout, The Wellbeing Journal, Wake Up World, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity and The Epoch Times. He co-authored The Cancer Killers: The Cause Is the Cure with Dr. Ben Lerner and Dr. Charles Majors, wrote chapter 11 of Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians (CRC Press), and published Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience through the New Biology with Hay House on March 31, 2020, with an endorsement from Christiane Northrup, M.D.

“This shift is nothing short of revolutionary.”

The label, and the answer

In March 2021 the Center for Countering Digital Hate named him one of twelve people it said were behind most anti-vaccine content in a sample of social media posts. Meta disputed the report’s method in August 2021, publishing that the twelve were responsible for about 0.05% of views of vaccine-related content on Facebook. Platforms removed accounts; YouTube removed his channels that March and, by his account, restored them in October 2025.

He answered by documenting the episode from primary records, first as a newsletter and then in court. He began publishing on Substack on August 12, 2024; by October 3, 2026 it carried 683 posts, including the eleven-part Poisoned, Not Infected series. In 2025 he became one of six named plaintiffs in Finn v. Global Engagement Center, dismissed with prejudice in July 2026 as a shotgun pleading without a ruling on the merits. Seven weeks later he introduced Restore the First.

The record, now

He chairs the Global Wellness Forum, launched in June 2025 with co-founders Dr. Edward Group III and Marla Maples. He is a Senior Advisor to MAHA Action and sits on the steering committee of Make Europe Healthy Again, launched at the European Parliament on October 15, 2025. He co-founded Stand for Health Freedom and served on its founding board from 2019 to 2024.

His next book, Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files, is published by Skyhorse Publishing with Children’s Health Defense in winter 2026. It applies the GreenMedInfo method to a new archive: the roughly 3.5 million pages the Justice Department released, each claim footnoted to a document a reader can look up.

Recognition

• Health Freedom Hero Award, National Health Federation, 2017. Voted by the NHF Board of Governors and shared that year with Corinne Buckley and Senator Rand Paul. NHF
• COURAGE-19 Award, November 21, 2021. By his account, from the organizers of the ReAwaken America Tour and Mikki Willis, producer of the Plandemic series, at a tour event he attended.
• Humanitarian Award, June 2, 2023. By his account, presented by Leila and David Centner, the founders of Centner Academy in Miami. The Centners host the Erased podcast, on which he has been interviewed.

Awards are listed only where a source can be named. For the last two, the source is Ji’s own account.

The through-line

I started by indexing studies and ended up auditing institutions. The method did not change: find the primary source, put it where anyone can check it, and say plainly what it does and does not show.