Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that he would note Dr. Casey Means for the American general surgeon, replacing his former choice, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, after questions emerged on his references.
The means were important in the movement “Make America Healthy Again” defended by the secretary of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In a Publish on social networksTrump said the means would work closely with Kennedy “to ensure successful implementation of our program in order to reverse the chronic illness epidemic and ensure great health, in the future, to all Americans.”
Means describes himself online as an “former surgeon who has become an evangelist of metabolic health” who “strives to create a happier and healthier world and planet”.
Here is what we know means “his point of view and what his opinions are on various health subjects.
Medical training
Means graduated from the University of Stanford in 2009 with a baccalaureate in human biology and a doctorate in medicine from the Stanford School of Medicine in 2014, according to its Linkedin profile.
She was a resident doctor at Oregon Health and Science University in order to become a surgeon in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, also known as the head and neck surgeon, but she abandoned her fifth year.
“During my training as a surgeon, I saw how broken the health system is and exploiting and left to focus on how to keep people out of the operating room,” she wrote on her website.
Dr. Casey means, an influencer of well-being, attended a confirmation audience for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Social Services, at the Capitol de Washington, on January 29, 2025.
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The means have continued to study functional medicine, which seeks to prevent diseases and disease. It is not certified in a medical specialty.
THE Oregon medical advice Currently lists its medical license as inactive.
After her release from the residence, she was a guest speaker in Stanford for less than a year and an assistant editor of the International Journal of Disease inverse and prevention for two and a half years, according to Linkedin.
During her career, she co -founded levels, an application that allows people to follow their food. In addition to biometric data such as surveillance of sleep and glucose, to see how their food has an impact on their health.
Accelerate
Means wrote a book with his brother, Calley Means, entitled “Good Energy”, which was published in May 2024 and would take a look at the reason why the Americans are sick and how to repair it.
The means and the brothers and sisters appeared on podcasts, including Tucker Carlson Show in August 2024 and the Joe Rogan experience in October 2024.
In the program by Tucker Carlson, Casey means that birth control is “prescribed as candies” and that Ozempic has “maintenance on the American population”.
The brothers and sisters increased in the Trump campaign And among the Trump allies, including Kennedy. They appeared to a September 2024 Round table on health With Kennedy organized by Senator Ron Johnson, R-WISC.
“The message I am here to share and repeat is that American health is destroyed,” said Casey, said during his opening remarks. “It is destroyed because of a chronic disease.”
Meanwhile, Calley is currently means as a main advisor to the White House and employee of the special government. He worked closely with Kennedy and praised many of his health proposals.
Controversial views
Casey means that “the points of view reflect those of Kennedy by emphasizing the fight against the epidemic of chronic disease, creating a healthier food supply and expressing the skepticism of the vaccines.
She called for the elimination of ultra-transformed food in school lunches and pleaded for organic and regenerative foods in school meals.
The Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks during an event with President Donald Trump to sign decrees and proclamations in the White House Oval Office, on May 5, 2025, in Washington.
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In 2021, she Written in an article on X This glucose “as a molecule has caused more destruction of the spirit and the human body than any other substance in human history”.
Glucose is a natural molecule which our body depends on energy.
Casey Means expressed skepticism about the safety of infant vaccines and called for more research on the “security of cumulative effects” of vaccines during the continuation of the calendar of centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she wrote in her Newsletter Good Energy.
“There is proof more and more than the total load of the current calendar of extreme and growing vaccines leads to health reductions in vulnerable children. This must be studied,” she continued.
She also criticized the administration of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants, which is Recommended by the CDC.
There is currently no evidence suggesting that infant vaccines or the current CDC vaccines are not safe.
Katherine Faulders of ABC News and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
