Donald Trump wants Dr. Casey Means to be the new surgeon general. She is a doctor who became a health expert and is friends with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump's first choice for the job didn't work out.

Trump said on social media Wednesday that Means has strong support for the "Make America Healthy Again" idea. He added that she will work to end chronic diseases and make Americans healthier and happier.

"Her school success and her life's work are really great," Trump said. "Dr. Casey Means might be one of the best Surgeon Generals in United States History."

When Trump made this decision, he withdrew Janette Nesheiwat from being considered for the job. She used to be a medical contributor for Fox News. This was at least the second time Trump had chosen someone for a health job and then stopped their Senate approval. Nesheiwat was scheduled to have her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday.

Means and her brother, Calley Means, who used to be a lobbyist, were important advisers for Kennedy's difficult attempt to become president in 2024. They also helped him decide to support Trump last summer. They showed up with some of Trump's biggest supporters, and famous conservative commentators like Tucker Carlson and podcaster Joe Rogan said good things about them. Calley Means is now an adviser in the White House. He often speaks on television about reducing help for poor people, taking fluoride out of water, and other topics important to the MAHA group.

Casey Means has no experience in government and left her surgical training program. She said she lost faith in traditional medicine. She started a health technology company called Levels, which helps people check their blood sugar and other health numbers. She also earns money from promoting health products like supplements, creams, and teas on her social media.

In interviews and articles, Means and her brother talk about many different reasons for the country's health problems. These include food companies that make Americans eat unhealthy food, so they need daily medicines from drug companies to control weight, diabetes, and other long-term illnesses.

Most health experts agree that the American diet, which has a lot of processed foods, contributes to obesity and other health problems. But Means also believes that changes in diet and lifestyle are linked to many other health issues, like infertility, Alzheimer's, depression, and erectile dysfunction.

Many long-term health problems that doctors treat are caused by the way we live, which affects our cells, Means said in a book she wrote with her brother in 2024.

Means has mostly avoided Kennedy’s ideas about vaccines that are argued about and have been proven wrong. However, on her website, she has asked for more research into how safe vaccines are. She also thinks it should be simpler for people to take drug companies to court if they are harmed by a vaccine. Since the late 1980s, a US law has kept these companies safe from lawsuits. This was to help them create vaccines without worrying about costly lawsuits from people who say they were injured.

She trained to be a surgeon at Stanford University, but she is now popular online because she criticizes the usual medical system and suggests natural foods and changing your lifestyle to help with obesity, diabetes, and other long-term health problems.

If he becomes surgeon general, Means will help promote Kennedy’s big MAHA plan. This plan wants to remove many additives and chemicals from American food. It also wants to get rid of 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 care. She has often been on Fox News to give medical information and ideas. She supports Trump strongly and puts pictures of them together on social media. Nesheiwat is also married to the brother of Mike Waltz, who used to be the national security adviser. Waltz has been suggested as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations.

However, Laura Loomer, a strong supporter of Trump, had recently criticized her. Loomer was important in getting rid of some people from the president’s National Security Council. Loomer wrote on X earlier this week that the surgeon general should not be someone who supports the COVID vaccine, got her job because of family connections, is involved in a legal case about a medical mistake, and did not study medicine in the US.

Last month, journalist Anthony Clark reported that Nesheiwat got her medical degree from a university in St. Maarten, even though she had said she got it from the University of Arkansas. The White House stopped Nesheiwat's nomination because they were not sure she would be approved for the job. This information comes from someone who knows about the situation but did not want their name used.

Nesheiwat wrote on social media Wednesday that he is happy to keep helping President Trump and working closely with Secretary Kennedy in an important job focusing on policy to make Americans healthier. He also said that his main goal is still to make the health and lives of all Americans better, and this goal has not changed.

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

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