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Honestly with Bari Weiss

Meet Casey Means, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

There’s an endearing saying that the U.S. surgeon general’s primary role is to be the nation’s family doctor. They represent America’s medical community, educate the public on current health risks, and wield tremendous influence over medical and scientific information. On Thursday, President Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means to take on this important role. Casey’s background is unique. After attending Stanford Medical School, she dropped out of her residency program in her ninth year, when she realized the course wasn’t addressing the root causes of illness. Since then, she, along with her brother Calley Means, co-founded Levels, a company focused on glucose monitoring, and the pair co-authored Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health. In recent years, she has been a leading figure in the Make America Healthy Again movement, speaking out against pharmaceutical, food, and chemical companies, and advocating for “root cause” medicine. We had Casey on Honestly back in 2022, and today, we’re replaying that episode so you can better understand who Casey Means is, what she believes, how we got so sick, and how she wants to tackle chronic illness. The Free Press earns a commission from any purchases made through all book links in this article. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the free press, this is honestly and I'm Barry Weiss. There's an endearing saying that the

0:35.7

U.S. Surgeon General's primary role is to be the nation's family doctor.

0:40.9

They represent America's medical community, educate the public on current health risks,

0:46.2

and wield incredible influence over medical and scientific information.

0:50.9

On Thursday, President Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means to take on this important role.

0:57.4

Casey's background is unique.

0:59.3

After attending Stanford Medical School, she dropped out of her residency program in the ninth year

1:04.3

when she realized, and this is her version of it, that the course wasn't addressing the root causes of illness.

1:12.6

Since then, she, along with her brother Callie Means, co-founded Levels, a company focused on glucose monitoring, and the pair

1:18.7

also co-authored the best-selling book Good Energy, the surprising connection between metabolism and

1:25.2

limitless health. In recent years, Dr. Casey Means has been a leading figure in the movement to make America healthy again,

1:33.3

in part by speaking out against big pharma, big food, and chemical companies.

1:38.3

But if she has one big theme, it's that we need to stop treating the symptoms of disease

1:43.3

and get to the root cause. Root Cause

1:46.3

medicine is what she calls it. We had Dr. Casey Means on honestly back in 2022, and today I wanted

1:53.0

to replay that episode so you can better understand who Dr. Casey means is, what she believes,

1:59.9

her explanation of how we got so sick, and what she might do if she's

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