Trump picks Casey Means for surgeon general, after first nominee withdraws

Dr. Casey Means (left) stands pinch journalist Megyn Kelly astatine a confirmation proceeding for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for nan caput of Health and Human Services station successful January. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption

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President Trump has switched up his prime for U.S. Surgeon General, tapping best-selling writer and wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means successful spot of his first pick, erstwhile Fox News contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.

Nesheiwat's information was withdrawn following scrutiny over really she had represented her aesculapian credentials, arsenic first reported by independent journalist Tony Clark.

In an announcement connected Truth Social, Trump said that Means "will activity intimately pinch our awesome Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to guarantee a successful implementation of our Agenda successful bid to reverse nan Chronic Disease Epidemic, and guarantee Great Health, successful nan future, for ALL Americans."

Means has catapulted into nan MAHA sphere complete nan past year, alongside her relative Calley Means, a salient advisor to Sec. Kennedy pursuing the publication of their book, Good Energy.

Both siblings often obstruction against nan power of nan pharmaceutical and nutrient industries successful their galore appearances connected podcasts and different platforms.

In their book, Casey Means describes really she became disillusioned pinch medicine's nonaccomplishment to adequately reside nan astir pressing causes of chronic unwellness successful nan country, including fare and deficiency of movement.

After attending Stanford Medical School, Means pursued a surgical residency astatine Oregon Health & Science University but dropped retired earlier completing nan program. She went connected to commencement a functional medicine believe and founded nan institution Levels, which offers consumers continuous glucose monitors and an app to way their humor sugar.

Her website besides markets various supplements and individual products.

She's raised concerns astir immoderate vaccines and the immunization schedule — and what she has called "corruption" astatine nan FDA.

Last year, Means was 1 of nan speakers astatine a highly publicized roundtable connected American wellness and nutrition, hosted by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, which featured Secretary Kennedy, commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr. Marty Makary and different well-known friends of nan Trump administration's MAHA agenda.

Edited by Jane Greenhalgh