Biden responds to Trump’s wild claims he will take performance-enhancing drugs for the debate by revealing his ‘secret sauce’: ‘I’m feeling pretty jacked up’

President Joe Biden on Thursday, just before CNN’s presidential debate with former President Donald Trump in Atlanta, ridiculed the idea that he would depend on performance-enhancing drugs.

“I don’t know what they have in these performance enhancers, but I’m feeling pretty excited,” Biden wrote on social media. “Try it for yourself, folks.”

The President’s Report shared a photo of Biden holding a can of specially labeled water, with the “Dark Brandon” meme on it. The can says ‘Zero Malarkey’ and ‘Get real Jack, it’s just water.’

The campaign placed the cans of water on them websiteand offered supporters a souvenir tin for a $4.60 donation.

Donald Trump has been fueling wild speculation for weeks that President Joe Biden may have used drugs during Thursday’s 90-minute presidential debate.

“Drug testing for corrupt Joe Biden? I would agree to that in a heartbeat,” Trump declared this week.

Following these demands, Ronny Jackson, a Republican congressman, Trump supporter and President Barack Obama’s White House physician, sent a letter to the White House physician on Monday calling for Biden to be tested before the showdown.

The Biden camp responded on Wednesday by dismissing Trump’s requests as “silly.”

Campaign spokesperson Adrienne Elrod pointed out that former President Hillary Clinton made virtually the same accusations ahead of their 2016 debates and Biden before they faced off for the first time in 2020.

While there’s no evidence that Biden or Clinton ever used “performance-enhancing” drugs during debates, that hasn’t stopped rampant suspicions among voters and in the media: Do debate juice drugs even exist?

Brett O’Donnell, a veteran Republican consultant who has spent decades grooming the GOP’s major candidates, says he’s never come across a “magic bullet” that can transform a candidate into a debate contender.

O’Donnell, who has coached President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, among others, recalls some candidates taking vitamin B12 injections in hopes of sharpening their concentration and boosting their energy levels.

And as director of debate at Liberty University for nearly two decades, O’Donnell said some of his students swear by bee pollen — a natural mix of flower pollen, bee secretions, honey, wax and enzymes.

Neither supplement makes much difference, according to O’Donnell.

He suggests that Biden and Trump are leaning on Red Bull and energy drinks for proven results.

Last week podcaster Joe Rogan suggested that the president’s team is “filling” him with “cognitive enhancers” like Adderall, testosterone and human growth hormone.

But Dr. Carole Lieberman, a physician and psychiatrist who has raised questions about Biden’s mental health in the past, told DailyMail.com that some of Rogen’s prescriptions seem far-fetched.

“Pharmaceutical stimulants like Adderall,” Lieberman said, “risk increasing heart rate and blood pressure to dangerous levels.

Testosterone can cause blood clots and wild mood swings, especially when someone is under pressure.

All of these would undoubtedly be unacceptable risks for a commander in chief.

Rogan also suggested that Biden receive NAD infusions and IV vitamin infusions for several days in a row leading up to the showdown.

NAD (Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a coenzyme that can be prescribed to stimulate the metabolism of older people. Intravenous infusions can quickly address vitamin deficiencies.

Dr. Lieberman said both treatments can gradually improve focus and concentration, but there are potential side effects, such as brain fog.

The drug modafinil is a non-amphetamine stimulant often prescribed to treat extreme sleepiness due to narcolepsy or other sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, from which Biden suffers.

In March, the president’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, revealed that Biden had begun using a continuous positive airway pressure machine to treat the condition.

However, Dr. Lieberman said she doubted the president’s physician would prescribe such a powerful drug.

Treating moderate sleep apnea with modafinil would be like “using a hammer to kill a fly,” she said, and the drug’s nasty side effects, including headaches, nausea, nervousness and dizziness, would certainly outweigh any potential benefits .

Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a primary care physician specializing in elderly care, warned that Adderall would be too risky for Biden, 81, or Trump, 72.

“Rather than improving their debating skills, taking these types of stimulants will decrease their performance, leaving them ‘fed up’, irritable, confused and unable to filter out the inappropriate,” she said.

She also expressed concern that Biden’s advanced age would make it dangerous for him to use pharmaceutical stimulants, warning of a heart attack or stroke.

The medical experts contacted by DailyMail.com concluded that there is really only one way an 81-year-old man – or anyone for that matter – can physically prepare for a public debate.

“Stimulants, other than a cup of coffee, wouldn’t improve it,” Landsverk said. ‘Instead, I would recommend getting a good night’s sleep the night before and taking a brisk walk right before to get the blood flowing.’