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08 June 2026

Donald Trump 'suffered a stroke' in disastrous appearance - and expert warns it will get worse 7JUN26

MORE proof NOT MY pres drumpf's/trumps recent medical exams have been cognitive test NOT IQ test due to his extreme erratic ( even for him ) behavior. This is what the 25th amendment is for, there has to be someone in the corrupt neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance administration or in the corrupt gop/greed over people-republican party with the courage to declare drumpf/trump unable to continue his term and initiate the steps to remove him from office. Most likely his family and cabinet and billionaire backers will keep him there while they complete all their insider trading and pillaging of the nation. From The Mirror.....

Donald Trump 'suffered a stroke' in disastrous appearance - and expert warns it will get worse

A physical therapist offering a detailed point-by-point analysis of the presidential health footage

By Myriam Toua and Andrea Oldereide GAU Content Editor

09:29 ET, 07 Jun 2026Updated 12:42 ET, 08 Jun 2026

US President Donald Trump's health has once again sparked significant concern after a physical therapist indicated the American leader, nearing 80, may have suffered a "stroke-like event".

In a post to his Instagram page yesterday (June 5), Adam James, who creates content as @epistemiccrisis and specializes in geriatrics, stated: "Don Snorleone had a stroke on camera yesterday."

James then provided a detailed, point-by-point medical-style examination of Trump's recent public appearance at an Oval Office press briefing on "clean coal" on Thursday (June 4). It comes after Trump had a meltdown and stormed out of the interview for a crazy reason.

James, who possesses a doctorate in his field with 14 years of professional experience, argued that Trump suffered a "stroke-like event or a stroke on camera" after the president remained largely out of public view for six days, from May 27 to June 3.

"He suffered a stroke and they were trying to get him to recover enough to go back on camera," James said. He further explained: "Number one is this posture", reports the Irish Star.

"I've had so many stroke patients over the years that the stroke has affected the strength and the tone of the muscles on one side of their trunk and they cannot maintain upright posture. But when he's very fatigued and falling asleep, he's going to lean to one side."

The content creator continued: "That right there was the worst instance of expressive aphasia, a common symptom of left sided stroke on the left side of the brain where your language centers are, I have ever seen from him to date. Did you hear him mumble through those words?

"And then he follows it up with 'good', he reaches for a very simple word because he knows 'I can't talk right now'. Expressive aphasia is different from phonemic paraphasia which is a typical dementia symptom but he got dementia and a history of stroke.

"So it's kind of tough to tell sometimes, but that sounded like expressive aphasia. Now, in this next clip, I want you to watch his jaw slightly shift left and right.

"The more that his jaw shifts to his right, the more asleep he is because he has a right-sided facial droop from a history of stroke. And his jaw is becoming weaker and more slack-jawed also because of dementia.

"But you can literally see his jaw slip in and out of awake, asleep, awake, asleep. I am so delighted because this is the worst I have ever seen him."

James concluded: "And I can't wait for it to get worse. At this point, he's on 43 days of borrowed time." In the video James examined, Trump was taking part in an official administration event focused on deregulation and environmental policy, with specific emphasis on "clean coal".

During the briefing, Trump spoke to reporters before passing the floor to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.

As Burgum and Zeldin gave their presentations, Trump leaned back in his seat and appeared to close his eyes, with social media users claiming he looked like he was falling asleep.

There has never been official confirmation that Trump has suffered a stroke, dementia or any other neurological disorder, despite persistent speculation on the internet.

The White House and Trump's physicians have repeatedly rejected such claims, saying public conjecture is not supported by medical evidence.

24 May 2025

What Your Blood Type Says About Your Health 31OKT24

JUST a FYI, and by the by I am O- This from AARP

What Your Blood Type Says About Your Health

Hallie Levine,

Updated October 31, 2024

AARP

Published February 21, 2023

/ Updated October 31, 2024

Do you know your blood type? There’s a good chance that you don’t. More Americans know their horoscope sign (66 percent) than their blood type (51 percent), according to a survey published last year by laboratory company Quest. There are compelling health reasons why you should know, especially when it comes to your heart. Research suggests that people with certain blood types — namely A and B — are at higher risk to develop blood clots and to have heart attacks and strokes.

“We think about blood type a lot when we think about transfusions,” says Robert Salazar, M.D., a cardiologist at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston. There may be some benefits to know about it for heart health, he adds. “Increasingly, there is a push towards the individualization of medicine and medical advice,” he explains. Adding information about blood type, he says, may help inform doctors on how to best treat patients.

Types of blood

Blood Type and Your Health

What the research shows:

Types A and B: Higher risk of blood clots, heart attacks and strokes.
Type AB: Higher risk of stroke and inflammation. Those with AB+ blood can accept blood from all donors and are called universal recipients.
Type O: Slightly lower risk of thrombosis, blood clots, heart attacks and strokes. People with type O- blood are universal donors and can donate to anyone.

Note that a healthy lifestyle likely trumps blood type in terms of increasing or decreasing risks.

Blood types are determined by the presence or absence of certain substances, called antigens, that can trigger an immune response if they are foreign to the body.

There are four main blood types: A, B, O and AB, according to the American Red Cross. In addition to these antigens, there’s a protein called the Rh factor, which can either be present (+) or absent (-). That means there are eight blood subtypes: A+, A-, B+, B-, O+, O-, AB+, AB-.

Types A and B and blood clots

People with blood types A and B are at higher risk to develop blood clots compared with people who have type O blood, according to a 2020 study published in the American Heart Association journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. The study, which looked at more than 400,000 people, found that types A and B were 50 percent more likely to develop blood clots in the legs called deep vein thrombosis and 47 percent more likely to develop a pulmonary embolism — when a clot travels to the lungs — than people with type O blood. They were 8 percent more likely to have a heart attack and 10 percent more likely to experience heart failure than type Os.

Why blood type affects clot risk

There are many possible reasons for why this happens, says Mary Cushman, M.D., a hematologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center and a professor of medicine and pathology at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM in Burlington, Vermont.

“The enzyme that controls blood type has other actions,” she explains. One of these is to modify a protein called von Willebrand factor, which is very important in forming blood clots. “The modifications to the protein are different in different blood types,” she says. “So people with type O blood have the lowest levels of von Willebrand factor on average and the lowest risk of abnormal clots. Type AB has the highest level and, in some studies, the highest risk of blood clots.”

There may also be some differences in platelets, the small cell fragments in the blood that form clots, says Joshua Beckman, a cardiologist at the UT Southwestern Medical Center. This may make you more susceptible to clotting.

Type A, type AB and cholesterol, stroke

There’s evidence to suggest that type A blood is linked to higher levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the waxy substance that clogs arteries. Type AB blood is linked to inflammation, which may adversely affect blood vessels. Larger studies need to be done before coming to any definite conclusions, Beckman says.

Blood type may impact stroke risk, too. A 2022 study published in the medical journal Neurology reviewed 48 studies of 17,000 stroke patients and found that people with type A were 16 percent more likely to have an early stroke than people with other blood types, and those with type O were 12 percent less likely. An earlier study done by Cushman found that blood type AB, compared with O, had a 1.8 times higher risk of stroke; other blood types weren’t affected.

Blood type and COVID-19 risk

Scientists are studying how blood type might affect risks from the COVID-19 virus, but they say it’s too early to draw firm conclusions. One Danish study, published in Immunobiology, for example, found that among hospital workers exposed to COVID-19 from April to September 2020 —when the vaccine wasn't out yet and the workers did not have personal protection — those with type O had a lower risk of getting the virus. Research has also linked type O blood with a lower chance of getting seriously ill from cholera, and it may offer some protection from severe malaria.

What you can do

It’s important to keep research findings in context. Though certain blood types could mean an increased chance of health problems such as blood clots and stroke, the risk is relatively small compared with the dangers of smoking and high blood pressure, and blood type doesn’t tell you much about your personal risk, Cushman points out.

You also shouldn’t let your blood type give you a false sense of security. If you’re having surgery or if you have cancer — both situations that can raise the risk of blood clots — Cushman recommends that you talk to your health care provider about a blood clot prevention plan. “If you have O blood type, you may have slightly lower risk of some diseases like thrombosis, but it doesn’t completely protect you from the risk,” she says. Thrombosis occurs when clots block blood vessels.

Knowing your blood type may give you added insight into your heart health, Salazar says. Though doctors often talk about manageable risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking, there’s less conversation around genes or the genetic risk for heart disease, he says. Having a patient’s blood type is a “way to try to narrow down individuals who may be at high risk,” he says. For these people, following the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 — eating right, staying active, not smoking, getting enough sleep, managing weight, controlling cholesterol, managing blood sugar and managing blood pressure — may be even more important.

Regardless of your blood type, everyone should have a heart-healthy lifestyle, Cushman says. “Following the guidance of the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8, for example, will add years to your life and reduce your risk of thrombosis-related outcomes like heart attack, stroke and venous thrombosis,” she says.

How to find out your blood type

A simple blood test can reveal your blood type. If you’re curious, you can ask your doctor to have it tested the next time you need bloodwork. There’s another very quick and easy way to figure out your blood type that’s also altruistic: Give blood.

A 2019 national survey conducted by the Red Cross found that more than half of people believe they need to know their blood type to do so, but that’s not true. Once you give blood, you’ll learn your blood type when you receive your donor cord, and you can create a profile through the Red Cross Blood Donor App. Slightly more than a third — 37 percent — of the world’s population has the most frequently occurring blood type, O+.

Editor's note: This article, originally published February 21, 2023, has been updated with new information.

Hallie Levine is a contributing writer and an award-winning medical and health reporter. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Consumer Reports, Real Simple, Health and Time, among other publications.

03 July 2018

Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely!! 2JUL18

YES! YES! OH YES! OH HAPPY DAY! OH MY YES!!! I knew all my years of grinding my beans fresh every morning, the ice cold water and then chanting while it brewed with incense burning and the occasional bang on a gong or ringing of bells was going to pay off!!!!!!

Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too

July 2, 201812:26 PM ET

Heard on All Things Considered

ALLISON AUBREY

Coffee is far from a vice.

There's now lots of evidence pointing to its health benefits, including a possible longevity boost for those of us with a daily coffee habit.

The latest findings come from a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine that included about a half-million people in England, Scotland and Wales. Participants ranged in age from 38 to 73.

"We found that people who drank two to three cups per day had about a 12 percent lower risk of death compared to non-coffee drinkers" during the decade-long study, says Erikka Loftfield, a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute.

This was true among all coffee drinkers — even those who were determined to be slow metabolizers of caffeine. (These are people who tend to be more sensitive to the effects of caffeine.) And the association held up among drinkers of decaffeinated coffee, too.

THE SALT

Drink To Your Health: Study Links Daily Coffee Habit To Longevity

In the U.S., there are similar findings linking higher consumption of coffee to a lower risk of early death in African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Latinos and white adults, both men and women. A daily coffee habit is also linked to a decreased risk of stroke and Type 2 diabetes.

What is it about coffee that may be protective? It's not likely to be the caffeine. While studies don't prove that coffee extends life, several studies have suggested a longevity boost among drinkers of decaf as well as regular coffee.

So, researchers have turned their attention to the bean.

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How Many Cups Of Coffee Per Day Are Too Many?

"The coffee bean itself is loaded with many different nutrients and phyto-chemicals," nutrition researcher Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health told us in 2015. These compounds include lignans, quinides and magnesium, some of which may help reduce insulin resistance and inflammation. "My guess is that they're working together to have some of these benefits," Willett said. (He's the author of a study that points to a 15 percent lower risk of early death among men and women who drink coffee, compared with those who do not consume it.)

"Coffee, with its thousand chemicals, includes a number of polyphenol-like, antioxidant-rich compounds," says Christopher Gardner, who directs nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. He says there's so much evidence supporting the idea that coffee can be a healthy part of your diet, it's now included in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. In 2015, the experts behind the guidelines concluded that a daily coffee habit may help protect against Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Gardner says part of the benefit of coffee may be linked to something profoundly simple: It brings people joy.

"Think about when you're drinking coffee — aren't you stopping and relaxing a little bit?" Gardner asks.

He says it's such a simple pleasure. "I just love holding that hot beverage in my hand. It's the morning ritual," he says. He drinks at least three cups a day.

So, how did coffee achieve such an image makeover? It wasn't too long ago that coffee was considered a vice.

Gardner says the bad rap goes back to a time when people who drank coffee were also very likely to smoke cigarettes.

So, when earlier epidemiological studies suggested that coffee consumption was associated with health risks, researchers were thrown off. It wasn't until they separated these two habit apart that a completely different picture emerged.

"Smoking was the cause of the association," Gardner says. "Ever since they disentangled smoking, coffee wasn't just null, it was [shown to be] beneficial."

12 March 2014

The Risks And Benefits Of Prescribing Testosterone 6FEB14

I think every man should listen to or read the transcripts of this show before starting and if they have started testosterone treatment. My younger brother (he's 55 years old) started getting injections last year. I talked to him about this show, sent it to him, and he is going to talk to his doctor. He said she NEVER mentioned anything about risk and side effects. This is what made me afraid for him "
...but you don't know how many men had injections. And the injections are the ones that are at the highest risk of having heart attacks and strokes. For example, when we give an injection, we get a super normal testosterone bump. And those are the men that I worry about in my practice. And I constantly get red blood cell counts, hematocrits, because that's where you see an increase in red cell count and a higher chance of having heart attacks and strokes. I'm very worried about those people." This article is definitely worth sharing. From WAMU's Diane Rehm Show.....
Listen to the show here http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio-player?nid=18847

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The Risks And Benefits Of Prescribing Testosterone