After finishing medical school, Means dropped out of her residency ― the multiyear post-graduate medical training program most doctors need to complete to get their medical license.
“There was something inside of me that was whispering and then speaking a little louder, and then finally was a deafening call to me that something is not right,” she said on Joe Rogan’s show last fall.
“When you pop up for just a second and look around at what is happening to American health … it’s a disaster, it’s literally a disaster,” she continued, explaining her decision to discontinue residency in head and neck surgery and begin practicing so-called functional medicine ― a holistic approach to health care focused on finding the root causes of disease.
Means’ Oregon medical license is listed as “inactive” as of January 2024.
Kennedy is already defending Means’ background.
“The attacks that Casey is unqualified because she left the medical system completely miss the point of what we are trying to accomplish with MAHA,” he wrote on social media.
Currently, Means runs her company Levels, a wearable glucose monitor startup, and promotes her self-help wellness book, Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health.
