In between running for presidenthaving a affair with a journalistand defending against a wave of dead animal scandalsRobert F. Kennedy Jr. promised. Make America Healthy Again. One of his main inspirations for doing this is a wellness influencer who apparently felt called to spread the gospel of health after tripping over some psilocybin mushrooms.

The Wall Street Journal write as Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, a surgeon, are the health gurus from whom Kennedy got much of his New Age-y health philosophy. The newspaper calls the brothers “top advisers” to Kennedy and notes that their book, “Good Energy,” has been circulated among Trump’s inner circle.

Before becoming a health influencer, Means ironically worked as a lobbyist for the food industry. His LinkedIn profile says he also spent brief stints at Booz Allen Hamilton (the dark “deep state”-entrepreneur) and the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind the scenes Project 2025.

Means claims he awoke from his corporate slumber after stumbling upon mushrooms. The newspaper notes that the former lobbyist had “visions to dedicate his life to health care reform after a high dose of the psychedelic psilocybin.”

“Michelle Obama was right, you know, to an extent,” Means admitted during a recent interview with the Journal. By this, Means seems to be saying that Obama’s program to make school lunches healthier was, in fact, a good idea. This is an agenda, you will remember, so it was largely derided by conservatives. Indeed, during his first term, Trump retroactive guidelines that Michelle Obama put in place to raise nutrition standards for national school lunches because, in Trump’s eyes, healthy kids are too much of a bureaucratic cross to bear.

The Means brothers ran the usual circuit of alt-media programming, including Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson’s podcasts. As conservatives pursuing a pro-health, anti-corporate agenda have recognized, they represent a strange ideological conjuncture that offers a strange mix of good and perhaps not-so-good ideas.

Similarly, Kennedy often made fun of himself by being the mouthpiece for many health conspiracy theories (especially, his indulgence towards anti-vax crowd), although not all of his ideas are completely stupid. American should eat healthier—it’s true—and another Kennedy idea—to create government-funded “wellness farms”.— has been championed by some progressive activists for years.

That said, the real problem for Kennedy is that it seems highly unlikely that Trump will ever let him do anything that legitimately threatens the interests of pharmaceutical companies or the private health industry. After all, the first Trump administration was in bed with snack and corn syrup lobbyistsand the former president is an acquaintance fast food fanatic who owned a real McDonald’s banquet inside the west wing. During a recent podcast appearance involving Means, Kennedy even admitted that he found Trump’s high-fat eating habits — which he was exposed to during the campaign —to be “really, like, bad”.

Time will tell if Kennedy gets an appointment in the Trump administration. So far, Trump has largely betrayed those voters who assumed he would “drain the swamp.” Instead, he has picked a cabinet full of Washington DC insiders, many of whom seem to signal a presidency that will have little to do with Trump’s campaign promises. Maybe, if nothing else, Kennedy can be Trump’s personal trainer.