Hi, I’m Calley Means.
I am writing a book and starting a company to put food and lifestyle habits (not band-aids like pills and surgical interventions) at the center of how we think about healthcare.
During this journey, I have been exposed to research, people, companies, and ideas that have changed my life and how I think about the health and development of my new son. I am going to write a daily newsletter to share one of these insights each morning. Sign up here:
More About Me
Every institution in healthcare (hospitals, pharma, insurance, med school) depends on more sick patients for growth. I’m working to change these incentives.
I’m writing a book, co-authored with Dr. Casey Means, about how preventable cellular dysfunction (caused primarily by food) is at the root of nearly every chronic condition that plagues American life – and how to fix it. It will be published by Penguin Avery, the editors who shepherded the top-selling nonfiction book of the past two years (Atomic Habits).
I’m also starting a company called True Medicine. It is built around the idea that food (and lifestyle habits like exercise and sleep) *IS* medicine. The company’s goal is to make tax-advantaged spending on healthy food and exercise seamless.
Previously, I founded a company with my wife called Anomalie, which recently sold.
I’ve invested in healthcare companies trying to subvert the current sick-care system, including: Levels (giving patients more data on metabolic health), Atai (leading mental health / psychedelic company), Delix (leading psychedelic company), Rejuveron (leading longevity company) – in addition to consumer startups such as RapidSOS, UpSmith, Dynamic.xyz, and Vibe.
I graduated from Stanford (I recently gave an interview to the Stanford Podcast here) and Harvard Business School (which recently wrote a case study about Anomalie here).
I started my career in politics, and have always been passionate about public policy. Today, I am active in groups such as Council on Foreign Relations, Teneo, and Stand Together.

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Recent Posts
Free Market?
You can’t have a free market when the current market is rigged. Healthcare and food companies have co-opted free market thinking. They have lobbied more than any other industry to rig the system and then cry that anyone who questions that system is “anti-free market.” Sadly, even some of the most intelligent conservatives I know fall…
We Are All on Drugs
NOTE: This is the first edition of a daily email outlining tangible health ideas from my work launching True Medicine and writing a book on metabolic health. If this resonates, sign up here: In a recent podcast interview, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gave his reason for not trying psychedelics: “I have always valued objective reality. I don’t…
More Money on Healthy Food, Less Money on Pharmaceuticals
11 out of the 12 leading killers of Americans are caused by or worsened by processed food. Healthcare is the only industry where “innovation” (more drugs and procedures) equals higher costs and worse outcomes – spending is outpacing inflation and yet outcomes are getting worse every year. This is because we’re addressing downstream, separate symptoms…