{"id":80878,"date":"2026-02-26T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80878"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:57:16","slug":"surgeon-general-nominee-means-says-health-problems-reflect-nation-with-a-broken-heart-society-losing-its-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/surgeon-general-nominee-means-says-health-problems-reflect-nation-with-a-broken-heart-society-losing-its-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon General Nominee Means Says Health Problems Reflect Nation With A &#8216;Broken Heart,&#8217; &#8216;Society Losing Its Mind&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>PBS<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer allied with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says she wants to address the root causes of chronic disease if chosen as the nation&#8217;s doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Means, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-casey-means-testifies-at-senate-confirmation-hearing-for-surgeon-general\">a confirmation hearing<\/a> with the Senate health committee on Wednesday, said her goal is to &#8220;get more whole, healthy foods on American plates.&#8221; She said the nation&#8217;s current system of &#8220;whack-a-mole medicine&#8221; that focuses on treating symptoms isn&#8217;t working. Means&#8217; vision dovetails with Kennedy&#8217;s Make America Healthy Again movement. But senators grilled her on some of its more controversial positions, including on vaccines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772092636\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Surgeon General Nominee Means Says Health Problems Reflect Nation With A &#8216;Broken Heart,&#8217; &#8216;Society Losing Its Mind&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PBS: Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer allied with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says she wants to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}