President Trump said Wednesday that, like the general surgeons, Stanford-educated doctors have become critics of the corporate impact on medicine and health.
The Dr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ally of Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says founding medicine will make you feel disillusioned. Last year, she and her brother, Calley Means, became prominent after appearing on the show of Tucker Carlson, a White House health advisor and former food industry lobbyist.
What is her field of medicine?
Trained as an ENT surgeon and head and neck surgeon, Dr. Means left the surgery without completing his training to practice so-called functional medicine, focusing on addressing the root causes of illness. Last year she published a diet and self-help book entitled “Good Energy: Amazing Connections between Metabolism and Infinite Health.” Prior to that, she was best known at the founding level, a company that provided subscriber wearable glucose monitors to track their health.
She focuses on the prevalence of chronic diseases in the United States, and aims to issues stemming from obesity, diabetes, infertility, chemical and drug therapy, and the use of sedentary lifestyles among Americans.
What did she say about the vaccine?
Reflecting some of Kennedy's vaccine skepticism, Dr. Means called for the new administration to undermine the liability protections offered to vaccine makers as a way to encourage the new administration to study “cumulative effects” and develop new shots.
“There is growing evidence that the full burden of the current extreme and growing vaccine schedule is causing poor health for vulnerable children,” she wrote in her October newsletter.
Child health experts are steadfast against trimming the list of recommended vaccinations, warning that such changes will cause a fatal outbreak of infections. And they note that the government is making the safety data used to license vaccines and the safety data generated after they are used.
What did she say about food supply?
Dr. Means is also driving a collaborative campaign to ease corporate-friendly policies related to food and medicine production and sales. For example, she offers more nutritious diets in public schools, investigates the use of chemicals in American foods, posts warning labels on ultra-processed foods, prohibits drug companies from advertising directly to patients on television, and helps reduce the impact of the industry between drug and food regulators.
“American health is being destroyed,” she said at a Senate roundtable event on food and nutrition in September. “If the current trend continues, if the graph continues ongoing, we will face social instability at best, lowering America's competitiveness, and at worst, consider a genocide level of health disruption.”
