"My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

Kennedy said Trump had the most “unhinged” diet of the administration officials.

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    Trump has access to some of the best medical care on the planet. He’s being kept alive at great expense in spite of his diet. Just look at the bruises on his hands.

    Remember when he got Covid? That would have killed anyone else of the same age and comorbidities. Especially if they were relying American health insurance.

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      Remember when he got Covid?

      I remember. It was really fucked up how he was downplaying its dangers while he got at that point still experimental, high-end treatment.

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        He gasped for breath at least once while standing on a balcony telling others not to fear the virus. Total asshole.

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      Yep, the “strapped the head of a whale he chainsawed off to the roof of his car to drive it home as a souvenir” guy.

      I still cannot get over Kathleen Kennedy (his daughter) recounting her vivid memories of this from when she was six.

      “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen Kennedy recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

      Sounds like a very fucked environment for a child to grow up in.

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    Yeah… laughs in paramedic.

    Anyone who has ever worked as a first responser knows that it’s an eternal, unshakable law of the cosmos that evil dirtbags who continually fill their bodiea with garbage are destined to live until the end of time. Pretty sure I know homeless crack addicts who were 80 when Mother Theresa was born and still outlived her, dumpster diet and mail stealing and all.

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    "My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

    I feel like this is a lot of people’s experience, we all know someone like this. I know that’s not the kind of thing the Lemmy demographic would look very kindly at, but this is a type of person. Some of them are batshit and others just had a lot of bad luck with the field of medicine.

    I really feel like if this guy had a kinder worldview and wasn’t genuinely fucking bonkers he would be a much-needed voice that could speak reason to people who have lost their trust in medical science. Instead he’s this. So he isn’t that.

    That quote could have come from someone who has come to a good realization about their understanding of health. Okay, you got sold a crate of vitamins big boy. Are you fixed yet?

    But I really feel like the only ones who talk nicely to those people are industrial suppliers of snake oil and that just makes the world worse. Especially now that they’re at the wheel.

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      The worst part is that he’s just a few steps away from having a process.

      You’ve started an experiment and set up a test but just zero follow through or data recorded.

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    After watching president after president age like milk, I’m convinced that it’s not the stress of office alone doing it. Even during normal times, it’s an incredibly demanding position without a lot of room for downtime. Add an attending physician to the mix and you’re good to go, packed to the gills with uppers, downers, antibiotics, blood thinners, beta-blockers, anti-parasitics, testosterone, you name it. While you’re able to keep the schedule of a 30-year-old this way, you’re also burning the candle at both ends and in the middle. It’s little wonder that such a person can more or less shake off a bad diet at 80+.