Calley Means
Co-founder, Truemed. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Calley Means co-founded Truemed, a platform enabling HSA/FSA funds to be spent on preventative wellness and metabolic health interventions. With his sister, Dr. Casey Means, he co-authored the bestselling book Good Energy and serves as an advisor on healthcare and food policy.
2shows
2appearances
54statements
43resolved
8supported
19contradicted
19%fully supported
6said about them ↓ Everything Calley Means said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Means: The Flexner Report legally mandates siloed pharmaceutical medicine in the US
“The way medicine exists today, the guiding law in Congress is called the Flexner Report, which actually mandates that we can't look at disease holistically. We have to look at things in silos, evidence-based. We need to name a condition and then treat it with …”
Means: Stanford medical dean took $4M from opioid firms for ethics research
“Reached out to the Dean of Stanford Med School, who was a pain specialist, and we funded him directly with consulting payments, and then made a donation to Stanford to his lab for four million dollars from opioid companies to study ethics and pain management.”
Means: 15 of 19 members on 2011 NIH opioid panel took pharma payments
“The Dean of Stanford Med School who just took a bunch of money from opioid companies was appointed in 2011 to the blue ribbon panel on opioid recommendations. He shows 19 other elite academics. 15 of the 19 had direct payments from opioid companies that we Ver…”
Soda is the top SNAP item; 60% buys ultra-processed food
“The number one item on food stamps is soda and more than 60% go to ultra processed food.”
Means: Democrats reflexively defend $10B SNAP soda subsidy against Trump
“You've had Democrats passionately arguing that we need to continue to have a ten billion dollar subsidy from the federal government to soda companies on snap just reflexively because, you know, the Trump administration happens to be talking about this.”
Means: Most health startups are wrappers on broken sickness incentives
“A better UX on medical records is putting lipstick on a pig. The problem is the underlying incentives of the system. You know, shipping pills in a millennial pig packaging is an innovation. You know, a lot of healthcare startups are just wrappers on the existi…”
Means: Segmenting Chronic Lifestyle Conditions Is Medicine's Biggest Post-WWII Mistake
“The biggest mistake we've made since World War II is that we've segmented these chronic lifestyle conditions when they're really the same thing.”
Means: Big Tobacco drove the largest food M&As in US history
“In 1990, two of the three largest M&A deals in American history were cigarette companies buying food companies. So every single processed food companies we can actually point to is either still owned by a cigarette company. We don't even realize this craft is …”
Means: Ozempic is essentially 'liquified anorexia' and a crash diet
“Essentially it is liquefied anorexia. I mean, truly, truly that's what it is. It's making you not want to eat. It's a crash diet.”
Means: 75% of FDA Funding Comes Directly from Pharma
“50, excuse me, 75% of the FDA is actually not funded by taxpayers. It's funded by pharma itself, and bureaucracies are built to grow.”
Means: Healthcare VCs fund repackaged existing drugs instead of true disruption
“I talked to a lot of esteemed healthcare VCs and they think innovation is putting a millennial pink package on Viagra and shipping it to people more conveniently. They think that innovation is like better UX on medical records. You know, you look down the list…”
Means: Nine of the top ten US killers are diet-driven
“Nine out of 10 killers of Americans are foodborne illnesses. I mean, we can dance around it. It's just that simple. Like, you would wipe out heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, respiratory illness, COVID deaths even, if you got our country metabolically m…”
Means: 95% of USDA nutrition guidelines panelists receive food or pharma funding
“The USD nutrition guidelines committee, which basically approves and recommends various foods. 95% of it is funded by 95% of the panelists are directly funded by food companies or pharma companies.”
Means: Kellogg's US products contain ADHD-linked dyes omitted in Canada
“Kellogg's is a stark example, but their ingredient list, they changed completely for the American kids versus just across the border in Canada. It has addictive ingredients. It has the colorings that make it really bright that are linked to ADHD and other deve…”
Means: 15% of American high schoolers are prescribed Adderall
“We prescribe 15% of high schoolers basically meth, you know, Adderall, which is literally like one molecule away from meth.”
Means: Tobacco giants controlled 50% of US food supply in early 1990s
“50% of the US food supply was controlled by Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds in the early 19 nineties.”
Means: US children's diets are 70% ultra-processed vs 15% in Japan and Italy
“Today in America, a child's diet is 70% ultra processed food. In Japan or Italy, it's 15%.”
Kellogg's uses natural juices in European Froot Loops but dyes in US
“Kellogg's makes fruit loops with carrot juice and watermelon juice and ships them across the border to Canada and ships them over to Europe. They make the same product with petroleum based dyes here in the U S.”
Means: 90% of US Farm Subsidies Go to Corn, Soy, and Wheat
“It's 90% to corn, soy, wheat.4% of subsidies go to fruits and vegetables.”
Means: Pharma makes up over 50% of news channel advertising
“The pharma industry particularly, Is the lifeblood of news and advertising over 50% for most news channels.”
Means: 35% of American teens take chronic disease medications
“35% of teens are on some kind of chronic disease drug.”
Means: Reorienting US healthcare economic incentives will require a 12-year strategy
“I personally think we need to think about it as a 12 year strategy. We're not going to reorient the incentives of the largest industry in America, the fastest growing industry in America, because we're getting sick, the most employed industry in America. We're…”
Means: Both parties will compete over who is more MAHA in 2028
“If those voters can help Republicans, which is my hope in the midterms, I think you have 2028 where both sides are basically arguing who's more maha, which I think is a positive thing.”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-founder, Truemed | 1 | 34 | 15% 4/27 | full record on My First Million → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-founder, Truemed | 1 | 20 | 25% 4/16 | full record on TBPN → |