US EditionOn podcasts, Trump’s surgeon general pick touts organics, questions vaccines and talks spirituality
- President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means, a 37-year-old health influencer, as surgeon general in 2024, highlighting her public podcast statements.
- Means, who dropped out of medical residency, advocates a root-cause approach to chronic disease linked to lifestyle, diet, and environmental toxins, aligning with Robert Kennedy Jr.'s priorities.
- She criticizes birth control pills and obesity drugs like Ozempic for encouraging reliance on pharmaceuticals while urging reduced consumption of pesticides, ultra-processed foods, refined sugars, and seed oils.
- On multiple podcasts, Means described COVID-19 as a metabolic disease affecting those with lifestyle-related issues, condemned vaccine mandates, and called for radical dietary and spiritual reform to address health crises.
- Her views suggest a surgeon general role focused on questioning medical orthodoxies, emphasizing prevention through diet and spirituality, and challenging existing vaccine schedules and FDA safety assessments.
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In a world of odd “spiritual” beliefs, Dr. Casey Means is no outsider. In fact, she is an effective channel for them. Means and her brother, Calley, are Stanford-educated medical professionals whose work focuses on functional medicine — the sort of root-cause and wellness interests that drive the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. The siblings act as healthcare lobbyists and, more specifically, top advisers to Health and Human Services Secre…
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On podcasts, Trump’s surgeon general pick touts organics, questions vaccines and talks spirituality
President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, has appeared on numerous wellness and right-wing podcasts over the past year.
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