Casey Means

needs to have a conversation with their pediatrician about any medication they're putting in their body and their children's bodies.

I'm not an individual's doctor, and every individual needs to talk to their doctor before putting a medication in their body.

We've got a huge percentage of American women on birth control pills.

That's, of course, hopefully post-puberty.

But we're putting women on exogenous estrogens for acne, for PCOS, for menstrual regularity, sometimes, of course, for actual birth control.

But it's very ubiquitous now in the environment.

And it's like, when you kind of know this stuff, you're like...

how are we allowing this to happen?

And then of course it's affecting boys too, right?

You know, and so I kind of just think about this world we're living in where it's tons of estrogens.

It's not like there's a bunch of exogenous testosterone, right?

Like you, I'm a physician.

I believe vaccines save lives.

I believe that vaccines are a key part of any infectious disease public health strategy.

And I would work with you, the CDC, the NIH, ACIP, FDA.

I'm supportive of vaccination.

I do believe that each patient, mother, parent,

needs to have a conversation with their pediatrician about any medication they're putting in their body, in their children's bodies.

I'm not an individual's doctor, and every individual needs to talk to their doctor before putting a medication in their body.

I absolutely am supportive of the measles vaccine, and I do believe vaccines save lives and are an important part of the public health strategy.