Dr. Casey Means (left) stands with journalist Megan Kelly at a affirmation listening to for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the secretary of Well being and Human Providers submit on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29.
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President Trump has switched up his choose for U.S. Surgeon Normal tapping best-selling writer and wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means instead of his preliminary choose, former Fox Information contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.
Nesheiwat withdrew her nomination following scrutiny over how she had represented her medical credentials.
In an announcement on Fact Social, Trump mentioned that Means “will work carefully with our fantastic Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to make sure a profitable implementation of our Agenda in an effort to reverse the Power Illness Epidemic, and guarantee Nice Well being, sooner or later, for ALL Individuals.”
Dr. Means has catapulted into the MAHA sphere over the previous 12 months, alongside her brother Calley Means, a outstanding advisor to Sec. Kennedy following the publication of their e-book Good Vitality.
Each siblings usually rail in opposition to the affect of the pharmaceutical and meals industries of their many appearances on podcasts and different platforms.
Of their e-book, Casey Means describes how she grew to become disillusioned with drugs’s failure to adequately handle essentially the most urgent causes of power sickness within the nation, together with weight loss program and lack of motion.
After attending Stanford Medical Faculty, Means pursued a surgical residency at Oregon Well being & Science College however dropped out earlier than finishing this system. She went on to begin a practical drugs apply and based the corporate Ranges, which gives customers steady glucose displays and an app to trace their blood sugar.
Her web site additionally markets varied dietary supplements and private merchandise.
She’s raised issues about some vaccines and the immunization schedule — and what she has known as “corruption” on the FDA.
Final 12 months, Means was one of many audio system at a extremely publicized roundtable on American well being and vitamin, hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, which featured Secretary Kennedy, commissioner of Meals and Medication Dr. Marty Makary and different well-known allies of the Trump administration’s MAHA agenda.
Edited by Jane Greenhalgh