Trump's New Surgeon General Pick Wants to "Raise the Vibration of Humanity"

[Nevilledog]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/casey-means-surgeon-general/

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In her writing and speaking gigs, Casey Means highlights the importance of metabolic health, an enthusiasm for many alternative health practitioners. Like many of them, she assigns a mystically important role to the gut: In Good Energy, Means states that “conditions like depression and schizophrenia” are “tied to poor gut bacteria,” adding that “researchers can identify a person with depression or schizophrenia just by analyzing their gut bacteria composition.” (The study Means appears to be citing specifically says that more research is needed to determine whether there’s a causal link between schizophrenia and the gut microbiome.) She’s also hailed raw dairy, writing how she wants “to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”

But Means’ medical opining has occasionally veered in a more New Age direction. She has claimed that “the universe” speaks to her and that people can “manifest” what they want by writing it down. “Perhaps the body is simply the material ‘radio receiver’ through which we can ‘tune in’ to the divine,” she wrote in an October 2024 newsletter. “We will get instructions (through human inspiration and reason) for what we need to do to raise the vibration of humanity and create a sustainable future… The future of medicine will be about light. I don’t exactly know how yet.”

“Humans are out of alignment with the Earth and depleting its life force,” she wrote the next month. “And human bodies are now exhibiting signs of blocking the flow of energy through them. This is insulin resistance. We are the Earth.”

Means’ track record of statements about medicine and health that aren’t backed by science are troubling to Jonathan Jarry, a science communicator at McGill University’s Office for Science and Society. He noted that Means’ treatment modality of choice, functional medicine, is not a recognized medical specialty, and that it often involves unnecessary tests and unproven supplement regimens. Functional medicine is “using a veneer of medicine to sell supplements in the hope that these fix a patient’s health problems,” he said. “It is not evidence based.” Jarry was “appalled, yet not surprised in the slightest” about her nomination, which, he said, “shows a continuing disregard for expertise and an embrace of make believe.”

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[Hassler]

1. Will my Medicare now include crystals in pla6

Of prescriptions?

[tanyev]

2. I hear vaccines are really good at raising vibrations.

[Midnight Writer]

3. I saw Lauren Boebert "raise the vibration of humanity" when she went to see Beetlejuice.

Must be a Republican thing.

[texasfiddler]

4. Doctor Dildo

[Solly Mack]

5. "The future of medicine will be about light." Another one of those light up the ass cures, I see.

She takes the pure joy out of petting a cow.

[Nevilledog]

7. She's a whack job

https://www.caseymeans.com/learn/newsletter-32

Newsletter #32: 💘 9 Steps I took to find love at age 35

[tanyev]

9. Seems more BWAHAHA than MAHA.

[Solly Mack]

11. Oh, my! She's out there flapping.

[Vinca]

12. Whoa - a grade A whackadoodle.

[peggysue2]

6. Magical Thinking and Woo-Woo Science

Between Means and Robert Kennedy, Jr. I'm convinced they're hoping to kill us all.

Who knew the movie Don't Look Up was nonfiction??

[Meowmee]

8. omg... wth

[DET]

10. I'm Open to Innovative New Theories and Treatments...

…but this woman sounds like a loon. Perhaps well meaning, but a loon nonetheless. I wish that conventional medicine was not so closed minded, but this woman is not helping.

[Oopsie Daisy]

13. Magnets, copper and crystals for everyone!!

[harumph]

14. Fake cures are cheaper than actual science and medicine - which actually require work.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. So I am familiar with these wackjob healthy living charletons and the people who follow them

It's an incredibly clique riddled group. There is no 1 leader because these spiritual healers because it's so much nonsense that contradicts itself. One weirdo is talking about cell vibration, the next the healing power of crystals, they're all seemingly into astrology, but they mostly march to beats of their own drums. Gut bacteria is a growing area of study for science, but I doubt this nicompoop is actually doing any real science around it.

[cbabe]

16. Wacky Good Vibrations

https://m.