NOT long before the 2024 elections, Dr. Casey means letter for her Good energy Newsletter subscribers with a list of wishes related to health for the next administration.
There were priorities that echo those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Social Services: investigate toxins in food supply, encouraging healthy food purchases with food coupons, replacing industrial agriculture with regenerative agriculture.
“More than anything, I would like to see our future White House rally to be healthy and in good shape,” said a doctor that President Trump appointed May 7 for the US surgeon. Trump rejected his first choice, Dr. Janette Neshiewat, one day before she was to appear before a senatorial committee.
Means, who co-wrote Book 2024 Good energy: the surprising link between metabolism and unlimited health With his brother Calley means, holds many health beliefs that reflect that of Kennedy. She frequently writes on how drugs are too prescribed and that many modern diseases are caused by avoidable lifestyle conditions. She believes that children should be served more nutritious foods in school lunches, and she expresses skepticism about seed oils. And she thinks there are too many chemicals in the American food supply.
These similarities partly explain why she was appointed, said President Trump at a press conference on May 8. “Bobby really thought she was great, I don't know her,” said Trump, After a journalist asked On the choice. Means “pinned Publish is a celebration of the Kennedy's Oath ceremony in the White House, which she called a “magnificent and important day for America”.
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Means and his brother Calley, founder of Startup, are central figures In the Make America Healthy Again movement, and in the months preceding the elections, they appeared together on Joe Rogan And TUCKER Carlson Podcasts. Their father, Grady means, worked in the administration President Gerald Ford as an assistant to vice-president Nelson Rockefeller, political centrist.
In their 2024 book, the brothers and sisters make several points which would probably be adopted by the Democrats. The first is that nutrition and exercise play a huge role in our global health (one of the public health campaigns of Michelle Obama, Let's Move!, Has tried to reduce infant obesity by exercise), and that pharmaceutical and food industries have too much influence on daily Americans.
But some of Casey mean that “ideas are more controversial. In her interview with Tucker Carlson, she said that the contraceptive pills are too prescribed and that they report a “lack of respect for life”. She said that Ozempic has “a workforce about the American population” and convinces people that there is a magic pill that can save them from chronic health problems. And she wondered why babies in America obtained vaccines against hepatitis B after birth, a practice that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends.
She also questions the safety of infant vaccines, writing in her newsletter: “There is increasingly evidence than the total burden of the current and growing vaccines causes health reductions in vulnerable children”.
Although many doctors do not line up with means of means on medical problems, some say that the choice will help advance the health of the Americans.
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“I am happy to see a candidate for the general surgeon who focuses on food and diet exercises,” explains Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tofts University. “This is the first problem with which the health of the Americans is confronted.” Means criticized Mozaffarian in a past bulletin To direct a 2021 study This has evaluated the health of certain foods, denouncing it for being funded by companies that make ultra-transformed foods. (He refused to comment on the criticism.)
Means “a perspective on the importance of health and exercise is part of the field of functional medicine, which focuses on identifying and treatment of the deep cause of diseases rather than simply treating symptoms. He disrupts the focus on traditional prescription medication – which is a good thing, explains Dr. David Perlmutter, neurologist and defender of low -carbohydrate and functional medicine diets.
“What Casey brings to the spotlight is this perspective that we should really focus on health and keep people healthy,” explains Perlmutter, who has experienced means for eight years. “Our health care system now has very little to do with health. This has to do with the treatment of diseases. ”
Perlmutter appeared on a podcast Episode for levels, the technological company means co-founded in 2019 which helps users to follow their metabolic measures in real time thanks to the use of continuous glucose surveillance. (She is the company chief; It is not known if she would move from this role of general surgeon.) Means also appeared on the Podcast of Perlmutter. In 2021, the two co-wrote a spur In Medping TODAY, a website for health professionals, criticizing the Biden administration and federal directives so as not to recommend, in their opinion, a maximum threshold with low sugar added daily.
The means went to the university and the school of medicine at the University of Stanford. She started a medical residence in the Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Surgery department at Oregon Health and Science University, but abandoned her fifth year after having made, she wrote in her book, that she does not learn the deep causes of the reason why people fell ill.
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She was editor for the International newspaper for the inversion and prevention of diseasesA publication evaluated by peers that documents the science of nutrition and lifestyle, from 2019 to 2022. In this role, means poems, essays and works of art mainly published, according to Kim Allan Williams, editor -in -chief of the journal. “I cannot answer much except outside his eye for art and literature. She was great about it! ” He wrote in an email who wonders about his mandate there.
Means also tried poetry in his newsletter. A poem she wrote in April (With the help of AI, she notes) entitled “The plan of the well -being of the devil” begins: “If I was the devil, I would abandon the disguise – / no fork, no flames, just marketing lies.”
The poem addresses vaccinations, marketing and drugs, including stanzas that echo several discussion points adopted by the MAHA and Maga movements:
“I would give boys boobs through toxic foods, / and I would call the aggressive and obscene male strength / I whisper:” You are too strong, too strong “, / and shame in the fire of men as something rude.
I would flood you porn screens on request, / Till Touch means pixels, did not hold hands. / I would teach women that cooking is something to fear, / that birth needs control and a hospital bed.
