MedBeds
Al Blenney - 13th October 2025
Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night a couple of weeks ago was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a fake Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first Medbed hospital and a national MedBed card system (two things that very much do not exist). Fox News told The Verge that the Medbed segment, “never aired on Fox News Channel or any other Fox News Media platforms.”
There was no additional context, no text to explain things. Confusing matters more, the video appears to be completely AI generated, including Trump himself discussing the program in the Oval Office. (Perhaps one of the biggest giveaways being the president’s ability to stay on script.)
Medbeds, for those that tend to avoid the more QANON-y corners of the internet, are an imaginary medical device that can do everything from treating asthma to regrowing missing limbs and curing cancer. The fantasy of an all-in-one device that can cure all your ills has obvious appeal, but belief that these are real products being kept from the American public by Big Pharma has grown among conspiracy theorists in recent years.
Many of the president’s followers acknowledged that the video was AI-generated, but still seemed to believe that Trump was confirming the existence of Medbeds. And now that the video has been removed, the White House will likely try to pretend the whole incident away.
“Medbeds” (short for “medical beds,” sometimes called “quantum healing beds,” “healing pods,” etc.) are part of a conspiracy / fringe belief and alternative health movement. People frequently claimed to be “still alive” by conspiracy communities are:
John F. Kennedy (JFK) - explicitly mentioned in Medbed/QAnon threads as being kept youthful or alive by “medbeds.”
John F. Kennedy Jr. - a long-running QAnon favourite (claims he faked his death / is “alive and returning”); frequently folded into QAnon/Medbed narratives.
Elvis Presley - arguably the single most famous “is still alive” conspiracy; sometimes invoked alongside Medbed / deep-state stories.
The claims made about Medbeds are extraordinary, and go far beyond what conventional medicine supports. Some of the common claims include:
- Healing any disease, including chronic, terminal, or degenerative conditions.
- Regenerating lost or missing body parts (e.g. limbs).
- Reversing aging, making people younger or restoring youth.
- Rapid healing of injuries, mental as well as physical restoration.
- Diagnosing illnesses via non-standard/secret/“quantum” or “life-force” energies or technologies.
Also, many versions of the story include that these devices are already in existence, but hidden or only used by elites, the military, or in secret underground labs, and that they are based on “alien technology” or very advanced futuristic tech that is suppressed or kept secret from the public. Often, they are discussed together with ideas of a “deep state,” secret cabals, or suppressed technology.
There is no credible scientific evidence that any device exists that does what “Medbeds” are claimed to do. No peer-reviewed studies show a device that can reverse aging, regrow limbs, or cure every disease, etc. Many of the claims are associated with conspiracy theory communities, such as QAnon or fringe alternative health movements.
Fact checks by multiple independent outlets have concluded that there is no proof Medbeds exist; that many images or video content are mis-used (e.g. “3D models taken out of context”), and that scientific and medical consensus rejects the extraordinary claims. Experts have described the claims around Medbeds as pseudoscience. They have repeatedly found that there is no current device that does what the more extraordinary claims attribute to Medbeds. Some companies making medbed-like claims have been called out for misleading advertising, or at least for having disclaimers. In cases where there are commercial products or services using the MedBed branding (or similar), they carry disclaimers. For example, in many cases the companies say the devices are “not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent any disease”.
Some of these companies (e.g. Tesla BioHealing in the U.S.) sell “BioHealer” canisters or “life force energy” devices / “energised rooms.” The claims are very broad, the costs are often high, and scientific verification is lacking.
Part of the Medbed narrative involves promises or predictions that certain things will be revealed or made available in the future. These often include:
That a political figure (often Donald Trump in U.S-centred circles - as evidenced by the AI-created video) will make Medbeds part of a new healthcare system. MedBeds will be made freely (or widely) available to the general public (either by government action or revealed technology) and that secret underground labs or facilities already have them, and that their existence will be exposed, suppressed technology will be made public ending the supposed “suppression” by elites, big pharma, etc. Sometimes the “future revelations” are vague: “soon,” “once certain conditions happen” (e.g. once a political change occurs), or once a monetary / energy / secret system is activated. Don’t hold your breath.
It helps to understand why this narrative has traction:
- People with serious illnesses or chronic suffering often look for hope; the idea of a magical cure is deeply appealing.
- Distrust of mainstream medicine, elevated by stories of pharmaceutical companies, medical errors, etc.
- The internet and social media accelerate spread of these ideas, especially in fringe and conspiracy-oriented groups.
- Use of “sciencey” language (quantum, energy, frequencies, biophotons, alien tech, secret labs) helps give the appearance of credibility for non-experts.