The president had yet another strange mark on his hands over Christmas, once again raising concerns that his health is not what he has claimed it to be.
Donald Trump—the oldest person to ever be elected president—was photographed with what appeared to be another bruise on Christmas Eve, this time marring his left hand.
The 79-year-old has repeatedly claimed that he is in pristine condition, brushing off public alarm over his deteriorating body.
Some people speculate is dementia drug infusions.
I did work for about a year doing pharm research for Alzheimer’s. Most of those drugs are infusions.
However. None of them stop or reverse loss.
They just slow it down And they aren’t even that effective. Honestly the data I saw… My opinion was. :
-Desperate people are going to pay this $1200 a month infusion cost for literally no benefit and extra risks.
Based on the documents I read, for one of the drugs we were testing (I forget the drug but I recall it’s already used to treat ALS)-
The dosage needed to cause a change in Alzheimer’s would have a serious health risk of brain bleeding.
The dose we were using was like 1/3 of the expected effectiveness dosage.
I thought this was kind of unethical because people signed up to be in the study with the hope of a medicine that would help them. And that’s how it was presented to them.
However. The study was really just trying to see how much brain bleeding occured at 1/3 dose.
With zero expectations for actual effectiveness on slowing down the progress.
I did not like the ethical issues with this line of work.
Anywho I have gotten on a tangent.
The other thing I wanted to say is , if these drugs are to have any effects in slowing (but none stop or reverse , just to be 100% clear on this), then the person MUST start them with early symptoms. What is called “mild cognitive impairment”.
They do nothing if symptoms are already noticeable.
And most people don’t realize they have dementia until it’s already moderate because they mask their symptoms. Or their symptoms are often excused because “pops/Mom is getting old and that’s normal”.
Its progressive.
Slow at first. And most don’t notice until it’s gotten pretty bad.
Trump almost certainly has fronto temporal dementia.
I’m not the only neuroscientist to say so.
I’m not clinical but I did work with dementia patients. Plus many clinicians are saying the same.
He’s got classic text ook symptoms.
People excuse his word salad because it slowly got worse.
But read out loud anything he writes or says.
It’s nonsense. That’s not normal. Read this and it’s a good example of Trump’s speech patterns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logorrhea_(psychology)&wprov=rarw1
-In a more extreme version of logorrhea aphasia, a clinician asked a male patient, also with Wernicke’s aphasia, what brought him to the hospital. The patient responded:
-Is this some of the work that we work as we did before? … All right … From when wine [why] I’m here. What’s wrong with me because I … was myself until the taenz took something about the time between me and my regular time in that time and they took the time in that time here and that’s when the time took around here and saw me around in it’s started with me no time and I bekan [began] work of nothing else that’s the way the doctor find me that way …[5]
I feel like I can actually get a somewhat of a sense of what this person is trying to communicate though. It seems like there’s an actual idea underneath all the confusion. With Trump, I’m not so sure that’s the case.
It’s just severe in Trump. Its progressive. It will continue to get more and more incoherent.
This is why it’s obvious that he’s far more impaired than what most people are guessing.
When he started confabulating , that was another big red flag. Confabulations are something that only starts at severe damage levels.
is bro an autocomplete
Then you also know he could go another 10 years like this. I’m not optimistic about an election; I think he’s in power until he whiffs his last Adderall. His handlers have a stake in this. They’ll keep him barely ambulatory for as long as they can, because the orders he’s signing and the countries he’s attacking are all Miller.
Yeah you can do a weekend at Bernie’s for a long time with enough money to hire full time health care.
I mean the guy beat covid. When it killed so many others in better health than he was in. That’s money there.
its the worst version of Weekend and Bernies ever.
Someone close to me got early-onset frontotemporal dementia. It progressed rapidly, he was dead within six years. The variant he had made him nonverbal rather than getting logorrhea. It’s an absolutely hellish condition, possibly even worse than standard Alzheimers. I’d see my friend every couple of months (I live far from where he did) and even in that period, you could see the decline.
With Trump’s venous insufficiency, he could also be getting vascular dementia, rather than Alzheimers. But then, it would make less sense that they’d be treating him with an Alzheimers drug.
Regardless of what it is, he deserves to suffer horribly.
Seeing people in the clinic with Alzheimer’s, I always thought “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone”.
But that was before I knew much about Trump .
gonna be honest, i think the drug accelerates als.
Considering that micro brain bleeds are a common side effect. I don’t see how it wouldn’t ultimately do more harm than good.
I read all the documentation on that als drug. The people who wrote it said something like the micro brain bleeds were found with mri scans but cognitive testing didn’t reveal that they caused any impairment.
I was like. Wtf.
Do these people not know how the brain works?
Damage is damage. Something has been lost. Regardless if a test found whatever that loss was or not.
Only broad extensive testing of multiple cognitive and motor functions could determine if the micro bleeds were or weren’t doing harm. And there are complications with doing that much testing. Plus why would they want to uncover support for increased loss. ?
That was my first experience working in pharmaceutical research and it honestly has made me certain I never will work in pharm research again.
I wonder how many desperate people are paying for drugs with minimum therapeutic value and much higher risks than they think.
I feel like Alzheimer’s drugs are predatory in nature because we KNOW that you can’t reverse the damage. And there is ample evidence that the processes of dementia likely start in the 30s.
If there is any chance of treating/curing it, it’s going to be identifying it early and treating it then. Like in the 30s. And there already is research on going in that area.
But greedy companies want to drain gramp’s savings before he dies.
And also. The plaque and tau proteins are likely not the cause but a symptom. So drugs that target them are also probably worthless.
There is just so much research on this. It’s unbelievable that they are pushing drugs to target the tau and plaque when we know that’s not the cause.
weird enough, insurance covered it 100%. like, they covered all his als stuff 100%. i think it had to do something with the war.
I’m glad it was covered for yours. Some insurance is better than others.
thanks! it’s a long and complicated story like it always is. Short version, dad was both in the military (which helped with the insurance, since ALS is considered a service related condition) and he was in a major ongoing medical study involving the brain, so i called in every favor i could in the insurance industry and believe me, i worked in medical accounting for a few decades i had a few levers i had been holding onto for emergencies. everything happened fast and smooth. couldn’t have gotten better care for him.