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Casey Means is President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next Surgeon General of the United States. On her “stylish” website, Means describes herself as a “medical doctor, writer, tech entrepreneur, and aspiring regenerative gardener who lives in a state of awe for the miracle of existence and consciousness.”
According to Andy Palmer in the Spectator, readers shouldn’t be surprised, especially if they remember back to the campaign. Means, 37 years of age, is a Stanford grad. She dropped out of a surgical residency in Oregon seven years ago to establish a Portland practice in “functional medicine.” Her medical license has been inactive since 2024. If confirmed as the new Surgeon General, she won’t be an active practicing medical doctor.
During the campaign, Dr. Means gave a series of extraordinary interviews, most notably with Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson. Means focused on the “chronic disease epidemic” in America, particularly among children.
Means, a critic of the for-profit medicine and the pharmaceutical industries, believes that we can trace the poor state of American health back to “metabolic dysfunction and a sedentary lifestyle.”
No one who’s been paying attention to MAHA should be surprised about her stance on vaccines. She doesn’t consider herself an anti-vaxxer but has spoken out against “vaccine injuries.” And there’s also quite a bit of talk about microplastics and the infertility crisis.
A Welcome Change
Mr. Palmer wants readers to be clear about Means, a kind of kooky West Coast lifestyle influencer. But her general health advice, he asserts, is good.
If you follow her diet, exercise, and sleep program, your chances of being healthy will go up significantly.
Means is a welcome change from photos of President Trump 1 standing in front of a vast McDonald’s buffet. Then there were the “dreary” Biden years with the “sinister Dr. Fauci covering up his role in unleashing a deadly plague upon the world.” Lest anyone forget Dr. Rachel Levine, the USPHSCC officer who parlayed a tragic Pennsylvania nursing-home COVID outbreak into an assistant secretary job at HHS. Remember Dr. Jerome Adams? Adams backed dubious pandemic health measures like school closures, lockdowns, and social distancing.
If that’s mainstream medicine, continues Mr. Palmer, then bring on the alternative.
Somewhere between the Big Mac and the Organic Valley, writes an optimistic Mr. Palmer, lies a healthy America where Dr. Casey Means can help us all live in metabolic peace.
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