Our Next Surgeon General is Mad About Man Boobs.
Casey Means wants us to stop eating "toxic food" and become our broccoli.
Last week, Trump announced his new pick for Surgeon General: Casey Means, a wellness influencer who technically attended Stanford Medical School to become a doctor. Until she withdrew without completing her residency to start a “health tracking” app called Levels, where users log their food, exercise and blood glucose levels to receive “personalized guidance” about their health (you bet it’s a diet). Means also runs an Instagram account with 825,000 followers and writes a weekly newsletter where she gets excited about drinking water for weight loss.
This is not who I want to be our country’s chief medical officer, just like I didn’t want her fellow wellness grifter Dr Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid, and I didn’t want a little rich boy prone to dead animal shenanigans in charge of all of public health. At this point, however, it’s not surprising that yet another prominent person in our federal government will be proudly underqualified for their job or that their personal belief system will be antithetical to the work they’ve been nominated to do. This is how America works now.
What is interesting is how Means combines an environmentalist agenda (long championed by the left) with classic conservative “be the CEO of your own health!” messaging.