Donald Trump plans to choose Dr. Casey Means to be the surgeon general. Dr. Means is a doctor who became a wellness expert and is good friends with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is in charge of Health and Human Services. Trump made this choice after he decided not to go with his first person for this important health job.

Trump said on social media Wednesday that Means has great experience with the "Make America Healthy Again" idea. He added that she will work to get rid of long-term illnesses and make Americans healthier and feel better.

"Her success in school and her work throughout her life are truly excellent," Trump said. "Dr. Casey Means could become one of the best Surgeon Generals in American history."

Because of this, Trump stopped considering Janette Nesheiwat for the job. Nesheiwat used to write about health for Fox News. She was the second person Trump chose for a health position who was not approved by the Senate. She was going to speak to the Senate Health Committee on Thursday to see if they would agree to her appointment.

Means and her brother, Calley Means, were important advisers for Kennedy's 2024 presidential campaign. They helped him decide to support Trump last summer. The two appeared with some of Trump's strongest supporters and were praised by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and podcaster Joe Rogan. Calley Means now works as a White House adviser and often appears on TV to support limiting food assistance programs, taking fluoride out of water, and other things the administration wants to achieve.

Casey Means has never worked for the government and left her training to become a surgeon because she no longer believed in traditional medicine. She started a health technology company, Levels, which helps people check their blood sugar and other health information. She also earns money from selling health products like supplements, creams, and teas that she promotes on social media.

In interviews and articles, Means and her brother say that many different things cause the country's health problems. These include dishonest food companies that have made Americans eat unhealthy foods. This makes people depend on daily medicine from drug companies to control problems like being overweight, diabetes, and other long-term illnesses.

Most health experts agree that eating a lot of processed foods in the American diet causes obesity and other health problems. But Means also says that changes in what you eat and how you live can cause many other health issues, such as infertility, Alzheimer's, depression, and erectile dysfunction.

In a book she wrote with her brother in 2024, Means said that many long-term health problems that doctors treat happen because our modern way of life damages our cells.

Means has mostly avoided talking about Kennedy's ideas on vaccines, which are controversial and have been shown to be false. But on her website, she says we need more studies on how safe vaccines are. She also thinks it should be easier for patients to sue drug companies if they get hurt by vaccines. Since the late 1980s, a US law has protected these companies from lawsuits. This was done to help them create vaccines without worrying about expensive lawsuits from people who were injured.

She trained to be a surgeon at Stanford University, but she has become popular online by speaking against the medical system and suggesting natural foods and lifestyle changes to help people with obesity, diabetes, and other long-term health problems.

If Means becomes surgeon general, he would help promote Kennedy’s big MAHA plan. This plan wants to remove many additives and chemicals from U.S. food. It also aims to stop conflicts of interest in government agencies and encourage healthier food in school lunches and other food programs.

Nesheiwat, who Trump chose first, is a medical director for a company in New York that provides urgent medical care. She is often on Fox News to share her medical views and information. She strongly supports Trump and posts pictures of them together on social media. Nesheiwat is also the sister-in-law of Mike Waltz, who was Trump's national security adviser before and is now suggested to be Trump's ambassador to the United Nations.

However, Laura Loomer, a strong supporter of Trump, had recently criticized her. Loomer helped remove several people from the president's National Security Council. Earlier this week on X, Loomer wrote that the surgeon general should not be someone who got the job because of family connections, supports the COVID vaccine, is involved in a lawsuit about medical mistakes, and did not study medicine in the US.

Last month, journalist Anthony Clark wrote that Nesheiwat said she had a medical degree from the University of Arkansas, but she actually got it from another university. Because of this, the White House decided not to nominate Nesheiwat, according to someone who knew about the situation.

"I'm happy to keep supporting President Trump and work closely with Secretary Kennedy in a senior policy job to make America healthy again! My main goal is still to make all Americans healthier, and that hasn't changed," Nesheiwat wrote online on Wednesday.

The surgeon general is like the main doctor for the country. They are in charge of 6,000 people in the U.S. Public Health Service Corps. They can also give official warnings about things that could be bad for people's health.

In March, the White House decided not to choose Dave Weldon to be the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was a former Republican politician from Florida. Some important Republican senators were worried because he had doubts about vaccines. He decided not to take the job after the White House told him he would not get enough support to be approved.