"“Good Energy” = “everything is connected”.

[Dr. Means] warns that rising rates of all sorts of maladies—from cancer to Alzheimer’s to erectile dysfunction—stem from plastics and chemicals in the food chain, over-medication, needless surgery, bad lifestyle choices and disregard of nature.

Nothing in this column is meant to suggest vaccines are hazardous. Nor should it be read as implying all doctors are quacks. You should, in any event, consult a medical professional, probably a psychiatrist, before taking health advice from Lexington.

...a home for people who ask trees for help with their love lives, dabble with psychedelics, bemoan consumerism, long for European-Union-style regulation, and turn for insight to the poet Sylvia Plath and the Disney movie “Moana”.

"'Women are lunar beings who exist on a 28-day moon cycle, inherently reflecting the cycles and patterns of the cosmos,' mused one such person, Casey Means, Mr Trump’s nominee to be America’s surgeon general"

To borrow Dr Means’s taxonomy, her feminine yin energy seems less to complement Mr Trump’s “endless yang energy”—what an elegant distillation of MAGA’s essence, by the way—than to contradict it. Yet as part of his movement Mr Trump is fostering an emerging hippy right.

In interviews and a best-selling book, “Good Energy”, Dr Means has recounted a classic MAHA awakening. She describes a dawning realisation, as she puts it in the book, “that every institution that impacts health—from medical schools to insurance companies to hospitals to pharma companies—makes money on ‘managing’ disease, not curing patients”.

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