Is Trump Receiving Treatments For Early Alzheimers/Dementia?

 The following is part of a frightening post by Lev Parnas:

When it comes to leaks around Donald Trump, almost nothing is truly locked down anymore—except one thing.

His health.

On policy, on personnel, on internal power struggles, the dam has broken. But every time I pushed on Trump’s medical condition, I hit a wall. People went quiet. Conversations changed. The tone shifted. That alone told me more than any single sentence ever could.

What I was consistently told—by more than one source—is that while details are being tightly guarded, Trump has been receiving ongoing IV treatments. That part, I can say with confidence, is not conjecture. It also helps explain the repeated and increasingly visible bruising on his hands—something the media keeps dismissing, even as it appears again and again.

And now look at how they’re trying to explain it away. Trump himself has been floating the idea that the bruising is “just aspirin” — not even a low-dose, doctor-prescribed baby aspirin, but a higher daily dose because he wants his blood “thin.” Could that be true? Sure — aspirin can make people bruise more easily. But that explanation also raises even more questions than it answers, because it’s not the typical regimen most doctors recommend for prevention, especially at his age, and it conveniently gives the press a one-line excuse to stop asking follow-up questions. The problem is: bruising is only the surface of what we’re seeing. When the public is watching increasing confusion, slurred or disorganized moments, mood swings, and erratic judgment in real time, “it’s just aspirin” starts to sound less like transparency and more like a shield — a way to wave everyone off while something bigger stays hidden.

Now here’s where it gets serious.

Sources would not name a specific diagnosis. They would not confirm a single drug. But multiple people independently said the same thing to me in different ways:

what he is receiving is consistent with treatments used for early cognitive decline.

That matters.

Because in recent years, there has been a new class of IV-infusion drugs approved for early Alzheimer’s and dementia-related conditions—drugs like lecanemab or donanemab (Kisunla). These medications are not casual treatments. They require regular infusions, careful monitoring, and MRI oversight because of known neurological side effects.

And those side effects are not abstract.

They include:

• Confusion

• Worsening cognition, sometimes temporarily

• Personality and behavioral changes

• Poor judgment and impulse control

• Memory lapses

• Slurred or disorganized speech

• Mood swings and agitation

I want to be crystal clear: I am not diagnosing Donald Trump.

I am saying that the behaviors we are all witnessing—on camera, in real time—are consistent with the side-effect profiles of these treatments, and with untreated or progressing cognitive impairment.

When you step back and actually look at the full picture, it’s impossible to ignore how all of this adds up. The repeated bruising on his hands and arms. The sudden reports of frequent MRIs. Watching him on stage drifting off thought, losing his place, slurring words, struggling to complete sentences, snapping emotionally, lashing out, showing poor judgment, confusion, agitation, and visible mood swings. These aren’t isolated moments anymore — they’re a pattern. No, we don’t have the single smoking-gun document yet, and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you. But real investigations don’t wait for permission, and they don’t ignore obvious warning signs. My job has always been to connect the dots others are afraid to even acknowledge. And when you connect these dots honestly, it raises serious, unavoidable questions about what’s really going on behind the curtain — questions the public deserves answers to, whether the political establishment likes it or not.

Marijuana May Prevent Memory Loss In The Elderly

Despite what the federal government would have you believe, marijuana is an effective treatment for many medical ailments -- a treatment with no bad side-effects.

Now it looks like there's another condition that marijuana could help with -- memory loss due to aging, and possibly even delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. That's the conclusion that German researchers have received after performing experiments with mice.

Here is what they found (from the Daily Mail):

Cannabis could help prevent memory loss in the elderly, a new study has found.

Researchers in Germany, who are set to begin human trials later this year, say the drug may even help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease by slowing the brain's natural ageing process.

The mental power of older mice improved dramatically after they were given THC, the psychoactive part of marijuana that makes users 'high'.

In fact, their brain connections in the hippocampus - which controls learning, memory and emotions - were firing as well as those of young adults.

It's hoped the same may apply to humans, with trials expected to begin this year.

Psychologist Professor Andreas Zimmer of Bonn University in Germany said the findings are essential in the movement to understand cannabis as a form of medicine. . . .

His team whose findings are published in Nature Medicine say it's too early to say if their remarkable results could be achieved in patients.

But they offer hope that drugs based on cannabis or THC could be given to middle or old aged people. . . .

In the latest experiments three groups of mice that were 18 (old), 12 (mature) and two months (young) were regularly injected with low doses of THC for 28 days.

The equivalent ages in human years would be 64, 58 and 20, respectively.

Both before and after the treatment they were challenged with a series of tasks that tested their learning and memory skills.

These included negotiating their way around a water maze, locating objects and recognising other mice.

In young mice THC impaired their performance. But the same therapy actually improved learning and memory in both of the older sets of animals.

Prior to receiving THC they did poorly. But afterwards they were as efficient as the young mice had been before being given the compound that, interestingly, reduced their mental skills.

Prof Zimmer, a psychiatrist at Bonn University, said THC boosted genes that control neurons in the hippocampus - restoring them to the same patterns observed in young animals. . . .

The study was published in Nature Medicine. 

A Simple Cure For Alzheimer's ?

According to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA), "Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain's nerve cells, or neurons, resulting in loss of memory, thinking and language skills, and behavioral changes." They go on to say, "Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, or loss of intellectual function, among people aged 65 and older."

It is believed that the disease is caused by "two types of abnormal lesions clog the brains of individuals with Alzheimer's disease: Beta-amyloid plaques—sticky clumps of protein fragments and cellular material that form outside and around neurons; and neurofibrillary tangles—insoluble twisted fibers composed largely of the protein tau that build up inside nerve cells."

Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer's. AFA estimates that between 2.4 and 4.5 million Americans now have the disease. With the large number of "Baby Boomers" now starting to reach retirement age, it is expected the disease will mushroom. As many as 16 million Americans could have the disease by the middle of this century.

That is a terrifying vision, especially since there is no cure. But there may be a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Researchers at the University of Florida believe there may be an incredibly simple solution to the Alzheimer's problem -- coffee (caffeine).

The Florida researchers have been doing tests on mice bred to have Alzheimer's. According to the BBC, "First the researchers used behavioural tests to confirm the mice were exhibiting signs of memory impairment when they were aged 18 to 19 months, the equivalent to humans being about 70. Then they gave half the mice caffeine in their drinking water. The rest were given plain water. The mice were given the equivalent of five 8 oz (227 grams) cups of coffee a day - about 500 milligrams of caffeine."

"When the mice were tested again after two months, those who were given the caffeine performed much better on tests measuring their memory and thinking skills and performed as well as mice of the same age without dementia. Those drinking plain water continued to do poorly on the tests."

The mice that had received the caffeine also showed a 50% reduction in beta-amyloid plaques. The researchers believe the caffeine actually inhibits the production of the two enzymes needed to produce beta-amyloid.

And there was even better news. It seems the caffeine may actually act as sort of a vaccine against Alzheimer's. Other tests done by these researchers showed that "younger mice, who had also been bred to develop Alzheimer's but who were given caffeine in their early adulthood, were protected against the onset of memory problems."

Could the solution to Alzheimer's really be that simple? Could five cups of coffee a day (or 14 cups of tea or 20 carbonated soft drinks) really prevent Alzheimer's, or improve performance in those who already have the disease?

Dr. Gary Arendash, who led the research, says it is exciting and important "because caffeine is a safe drug for most people, it easily enters the brain, and it appears to directly affect the disease process."

But we must be careful about making too much of this research. So far, the study has only been done on mice. It might or might not work with humans. We'll just have to wait and see what the caffeine does for humans when studied.

As Rebecca Wood of the Alzheimer's Research Trust says, "In this study on mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's, researchers found that caffeine boosted their memory. We need to do more research to find out whether this effect will be seen in people. It is too early to say whether drinking coffee or taking caffeine supplements will help people with Alzheimer's."

Even so, for us "Baby Boomers", this is a welcome ray of hope.