Maha’s dam is complete

The general surgeon, the doctor of America, is the public face of medicine in the United States. The job is more educational than it is technical. Vivek Murthy, who was appointed General Surgeon during Obama and Biden administrations, continued Sesame street To emphasize the importance of vaccinations and to put a guide to host dinner parties as a cure for loneliness.

In many ways, Casey means that he is the perfect person for this job. Donald Trump’s new candidate for the General Surgeon, announced yesterday, is a doctor of Stanford who is well -spoken and telegenic. Most importantly, he knows how to draw attention to health problems. Good energyThe book he published last year with his brother, Calley (who, by the way, is a special advisor to the Trump administration), is Amazon’s number 1 in his “nutrition” and “aging” categories. He regularly publishes on Instagram, where he has more than 700,000 followers.

In many other ways, however, the media are far from perfect. A main voice in the “Make America Health Again” movement by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The media have said that U.S. diet -related health problems could lead to a “genocidal level collapse” and that “we are all a little dead while we are alive” because of what she calls “metabolic dysfunction.” He also wrote about participating in full moon ceremonies and how to talk to the trees helped find love, although he admitted that the rituals were “out”. And the media (who did not respond to a comment request) have used their platform to promote “mitochondrial health” gomges, “energy bits” loaded with algae and vitamins that he described as their “stack of immunity. “”

The media was not the highest choice of Trump for the General Surgeon. Her first candidate, Janette Nesheiwat, was withdrawn yesterday in the midst of the complaints she had mistakenly represented her medical training. Bringing that the Senate confirms the media as the next general surgeon, it will be another of the ideological compatriots of RFK Jr. who have joined the Trump administration. The director of the National Health Institutes, Jay Bhattacharya, and the FDA curator, Marty Makary, are also skeptical of the public health establishment. Earlier this week, Vinay Prasad, another important medical opposite, assumed a more important job at the FDA. Now, the “Maha” taking of federal health agencies is complete. At the beginning of today, Trump told journalists that he played, “because Bobby thought it was fantastic.”

The media conforms to the Trump Administration’s approach to health. He abandoned his medical residence, quoting his frustrations with the myopic focus of modern medicine. By her who tells Good energyHe left his program to ear surgery, nose and throat because “not once” was taught what caused inflammation in the sinus of his patients. In the third chapter of his book, entitled “Trust yourself, not your doctor,” it means that you do not have to trust doctors, because the medical establishment makes more money when you are sick and does not understand how to treat the fundamental causes of chronic illness.

Relossing chronic disease is also a passion of Kennedy and the similarities between them are thoroughly. Like the Secretary of Health, it means that you must avoid seed oils and ultra -processed foods. It is prone to reflections on the crisis of North -American Health Care, which is more than C. Everett Koop. He has proclaimed that the North -Americans have “completely lost their respect for the miraculous of life.” He said that the birth control pill does not respect life because “closing the female body hormones that create this cyclic nature of women’s life.” One of the last editions of his weekly email newsletter was dedicated to the children’s movie Moanawhich he called “a model forgotten by how we lead, heal and regenerate”. (For the registration, Koop, United States General Surgeon during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, never meant that he has made mushrooms to find love.)

Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and Andrew Huberman have welcomed all their podcasts. In many ways, the increase in Means is emblematic of the well -being culture of modern written Internet: if you are articulated and confident, and you can convincingly recite what looks like academic evidence, you can make, famous, and maybe even being named General Surgeon. Its most dangerous inclination is to put in the line of his new head, Kennedy, on the theme of vaccines. At Rogan’s show in October, he asked if the shooting hut receives children, as babies could cause autism. And in the Carlson podcast, he argued that some babies could be given to life later in life to prevent overexposure to neurotoxins. There is no scientific evidence to back up these claims.

But at the same time, a large part of the media philosophy is not so objectable. While the books written by RFK Jr. They are full of conspiracy theories, their focus on how to treat North -Americans with whole foods, exercise and good sleep. It even includes a recipe guide. (Its fennel and apple salad in a lemon dress and smoked salmon is delicious, I must recognize.) If your book is some indication, your first step as a general surgeon will be to urge parents to reduce their children’s sugar consumption. “If the General Surgeon, the dean of Stanford Medical School and the NIH chief, gave a press conference on the steps of Congress tomorrow, saying that we should have an urgent national effort to reduce sugar consumption among children, I think consumption of sugar would go down.”

If the media adhere to these problems, commissioning Americans to eat organic eating, walking and having a little eyes, it could be a force for positive change in American health care. If you urge women to give up birth control, non -proved supplements or use their polepit bully to question the safety of children’s vaccines, it will be one of the most dangerous surgeon generals in modern history. In this way, it looks very much like Kennedy and the rest of the Maha universe. Their great image problems seem reasonable and resonate with many people. America has a chronic illness problem; Food companies come from Brossa that makes us sick; The public health establishment has not done well. But for every reasonable idea it offers, there is a pseudoscientific belief that you have its credibility.