President Donald Trump's newest surgeon general nominee is a burgeoning health influencer who has shared her approach to health care through appearances on some of the nation's most popular wellness and right-wing podcasts.
A sampling of Dr. Casey Means' comments from those interviews over the past year paints a picture of someone who could use the nation's most prominent health care position to focus on diet and lifestyle factors as a way to prevent chronic conditions, while raising questions about pharmaceutical interventions and the vaccine schedule for children.
Means, 37, has said she devoted her career to studying the root causes of why Americans are getting sick after dropping out of her residency program.
Here's a closer look at what Means' podcast appearances reveal about how she might approach the role as surgeon general:
She believes we're treating chronic health conditions the wrong way