RFK Jr.’s Wellness Guru Says He Found His Calling to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ on a Shroom Trip

In betwixt running for president, having an affair with a journalist, and defending himself against a question of dead carnal scandals, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to Make America Healthy Again. One of his main inspirations for doing that is simply a wellness influencer who seemingly felt called to dispersed the gospel of wellness aft tripping balls connected immoderate psilocybin mushrooms.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, a surgeon, are the wellness gurus from whom Kennedy has sourced overmuch of his New Age-y wellness philosophy. The paper calls the siblings “top advisors” to Kennedy, and notes that their book, “Good Energy,” has been circulated among Trump’s interior circle.

Prior to becoming a wellness influencer, Means ironically worked arsenic a lobbyist for the nutrient industry. His LinkedIn illustration says helium besides spent little stints astatine Booz Allen Hamilton (the shadowy “deep state”-contractor) and the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing deliberation vessel down Project 2025.

Means claims helium awoke from his firm slumber aft tripping connected shrooms. The insubstantial notes that the erstwhile lobbyist had a “vision of dedicating his beingness to reforming healthcare aft a precocious dose of the psychedelic cause psilocybin.”

“Michelle Obama was right, you know, to immoderate degree,” Means admitted during a caller interrogation with the Journal. By that, Means appears to beryllium saying that Obama’s programme to marque schoolhouse lunches healthier was, successful fact, a bully idea. This is an agenda, you’ll recall, that was broadly derided by conservatives. Indeed, during his archetypal term, Trump rolled backmost guidelines that Michelle Obama had enactment successful spot to heighten nutrition standards for nationalist schoolhouse lunches, because, successful Trump’s eyes, steadfast children are excessively overmuch of a bureaucratic transverse to bear.

The Means siblings person cruised the accustomed circuit of alt-media programming, including the podcasts of Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson. As admitted conservatives pursuing a pro-health, anti-corporatist agenda, they correspond an unusual ideological juncture that offers a weird hodgepodge of bully and possibly not-so-good ideas.

Similarly, Kennedy has often brought derision upon himself by being the mouthpiece for galore health-related conspiracy theories (most notably, his indulgence of the anti-vax crowd), though not each of his ideas are wholly stupid. Americans should devour healthier—it’s true—and different Kennedy idea—to make government-funded “wellness farms”—has been championed by immoderate progressive activists for years.

That said, the existent occupation for Kennedy is that it seems highly improbable Trump volition ever fto him bash thing that legitimately threatens the interests of pharmaceutical companies oregon the backstage healthcare industry. After all, Trump’s archetypal medication was successful furniture with snack and maize syrup lobbyists, and the erstwhile President is simply a well-known fast nutrient fanatic who held an existent McDonald’s banquet wrong the West Wing. During a caller podcast quality involving Means, Kennedy adjacent admitted that helium recovered Trump’s fat-filled dietary habits—which helium was exposed to during the campaign—to beryllium “really, like, bad.”

Time volition archer whether Kennedy is fixed an assignment successful Trump’s medication astatine all. So far, Trump has mostly betrayed those voters who assumed helium would “drain the swamp.” Instead, he’s picked a furniture afloat of Washington D.C. insiders, galore of whom look to awesome a presidency that volition person small to bash with Trump’s run promises. Maybe, if thing else, Kennedy tin beryllium Trump’s idiosyncratic trainer.