The choice of President Trump of Dr. Casey means a holistic medical doctor from Los Angeles and an influencer of well-being, because his candidate for the general surgeon seems to mark another attempt to challenge the medicine of the establishment and the longtime federal policy.
Trump has portrayed the means – a graduate and author of the Stanford Schood, 37 years old who describes himself on Liendin As a former surgeon who has become an evangelist of metabolic health “- in her announcement in full synchronization with the mission of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to” make America again healthy “.
“Casey has impeccable” maha “identification information, and will work in close collaboration with our wonderful secretary for health and social services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. statement on social truth.
But some who know mean if she is completely aligned with Kennedy.
Robert Lustig, professor emeritus of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UC San Francisco, who is a friend of means, Times told that he had been shocked and surprised.
“What surprised me was that she wanted work, because she had difficulty adopting the full RFK portfolio,” said Lustig, citing Kennedy's controversial statements on vaccines and fluoride in public water supplies. “She did not want to be part of the administration, in part because she could not access these opinions. So what changed is not clear.”
The means did not respond to requests for comments. However, she celebrated in February when Kennedy was sworn in, saying on a post This “vision of the future is aligned with what I want for my family, future children and the world”.
In the past year, she has raised public concerns about certain vaccines. In August, she spoke on x Against CDC directives, all infants should receive a dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
“The idea of giving a newborn the vaccine against hepatitis B (followed by 2 additional doses) if the baby is born from parents * without hepatitis B * is an absolute madness and should take an American break and question the mandates of the health system,” she said.
“I have publicly said countless times, I think the vaccine mandates are criminal”, she said on x in November.
But when Lustig spoke to means four weeks ago, he told Times, the means had left his house in the Pacific palisades, worried toxic air and water after forest fires in the Los Angeles region and had moved to Hawaii. He said she wanted to start a family and did not express her interest in working with Kennedy at the time.
“I know that her opinions are not hers – that is why she did not accept it earlier,” said Lustig. “If you are an employee, you must take the whole wallet. You cannot choose games, and it was uncomfortable.”
The president announced means as his choice one day before his initial choice for the position, the New York family doctor and contributor to Fox News, Janette Nesheiwat, had to have an audience with the senators on Thursday.
Trump has not yet explained why Nesheiwat was replaced as his candidate, but he said that she would work at the Ministry of Health and Social Services on another quality. “
The American general surgeon is known as “the doctor of the nation”. According to the Department of Health and Social ServicesThe role is to provide Americans “the best advice on how to improve their health, by issuing advice, reports and action calls to offer the best scientific information available on crucial issues”.
Lustig said he had no doubts that means – that he learned to know by advising health levels, a digital metabolic health company that she has co -founded – would bring a different perspective to the American government.
“Here's the problem: we have an epidemic of chronic diseases and there are no drugs that fix any of these diseases,” said Lustig. “They are not repairable by drugs. They are repairable by food. And the reason is that all of these diseases are mitochondrial diseases, and we do not have drugs that reach mitochondria.
“We have to change the food supply,” he added. “There is no option. Casey knows it. So, as a general surgeon, she could assert this affair. ”
In this sense, Lustig agreed with Trump, who said: “Dr. Casey means the potential to be one of the best surgeons in the history of the United States.”
“I think he is a great person,” said Lustig. “She will bring a very different state of mind to the office.”
But Lustig said he believed Kennedy had spoken badly about the vaccines.
“I know why he's wrong on vaccines,” he said. “I understand where his brain is, because I had half an hour with him on the phone, one against one. But I can't change my integrity to match this – and I thought Casey couldn't either. ”
Means is an unorthodox choice for a president famous for his diet of Big Mac and diet.
Her website Includes photos of broccoli and almonds. His Instagram page shows brilliant bowls of Tofu rushes With heritage tomatoes, lawyer and beet sauerrave.
Her bulletin Tells how, at the age of 35, after having moved to Los Angeles, she kissed the “Woo Woo (Aka, the mystery)”, set up a meditation sanctuary in her home and asked for relational advice in trees.
The means were raised in Washington, DC, the daughter of slightly religious republican parents. His father born in Californian, Grady meansA retired American sales director and a government official served the White House as assistant to vice-president Nelson Rockefeller, managed the food and nutritional working group to reform the food coup program and provided surveillance to the National Health Insurance Experience.
After graduating from the Stanford Medical School, the means were 4 and a half years in a five -year residence to become a head and neck surgeon at Oregon Health & Science University when she abandoned, disillusioned by the health system.
“During my training as a surgeon, I saw how broken the health system is and left to focus on how to keep people out of the operating room,” she says on her website.
“The reason she left was because she saw that the same patients returned with the same problems and her mentors, the faculty of Stanford, when she asked:” Why is it happening? ” Would say: “Shut up and operate,” said Lustig.
“She had a crisis of confidence that she did not help the problem, or was in fact part of the system that really made the problems.”
In 2019, the co-founded levels Health, which strives to “allow individuals to radically optimize their health and well-being by providing continuous biofeedback in real time”.
Two years later, his break with the medicine of the establishment became more intense – and no more personal – when his mother was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas of stadium 4.
“What put him on the edge was when her mother died of pancreatic cancer, and it was missed,” said Lustig. “She had all the symptoms and signs of the metabolic syndrome in her and none of her doctors approached any of them.”
The means served as chief medicine of health levels until last year, when she and her brother, Calley, published a 400-page diet and a self-assistance book entitled “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection between Metabolism and Unlimited Health”.
In August, she catapulted the consumer renown – in particular to the right – when Tucker Carlson presented her, she and her brother on her podcast, for a program entitled “How the Great Pharma keeps you sick, and the Dark Truth on Ozempic and the Pill”.
“The system is rigged against the American patient to create diseases, then take advantage of it,” Carlson told Carlson.
In recent months, the means and his brother, which now serves as a health advisor to the White House, has made public appearances during the events “Make America Healthy Again”.
In September, she approached a round table of the American Senate on chronic diseases Listing all the things she has not learned in the medical school: “For each additional portion of ultra-transformed food that we eat,” she said, “early mortality increases by 18%”.
Critics were quick to lead X to make fun of his statistics.
“I easily had 1000 bags of chips in my life”, ” said Brad Stulberg, deputy assistant professor of health management and health policy at the University of Michigan health school. “If this is true, this means that my risk of mortality increased by 18,000%. It seems unlikely. ”
