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Jenke loses his memory Dementia is already one of the most widespread age-related diseases in our society. 1.5 million people are affected. If research does not succeed in achieving a breakthrough in therapy soon, this number will increase dramatically in the coming years. But what does it really feel like to be demented and lose your memory? RTL reporter Jenke von Wilmsdorff does the self-experiment and under hypnosis, she lets herself be put into a state of dementia. He experiences on his own body what it is like when important brain functions such as memory and orientation fail. For his experiment, Jenke lives for a week in a shared flat with dementia sufferers and experiences ups and downs together with them. Jenke also meets the family of a 63-year-old dementia sufferer from Cologne who was diagnosed a year ago.
Jenke behind bars: In Germany, about 71,000 people are in prison. For two weeks Jenke von Wilmsdorff is one of them. To experience everyday life in prison, he moves to the Bremervörde prison. During the day he works in the court convoy, in the evenings he spends his time in the narrow solitary cell, like all the prisoners there. Here and in the common rooms he experiences the hard life behind bars. What about the supposed luxury in the cell? And how does the illegal trade in drugs, mobile phones and alcohol work in prison. Back at liberty, Jenke accompanies the unannounced access of a special task force in a prison through the mediation of the Saxon Ministry of Justice. For his further research on the subject of imprisonment and prison, Jenke von Wilmsdorff also meets a mother whose husband is in custody and who now no longer knows how she and her three children will make ends meet.
Jenke is starving - between ravenous hunger and severe weight loss: In order to find out for herself what effects eating disorders have on the body, Jenke von Wilmsdorff lives like an eating disordered person for his new experiment. Under medical supervision, Jenke will starve for weeks on end and radically lose kilos in the process. He will experience on his own body what it means to lose weight against all reason and to put his own health at risk. What drives people to do this? How harmful is hunger and how do the organs react? In therapy facilities Jenke meets young women with eating disorders and learns frightening details about the disease. For example, what tricks patients use to trick their doctors and their own bodies to lose even more weight and how they motivate each other in WhatsApp groups. However, a disturbed relationship with food does not necessarily end in anorexia. Behind "eating too much" is also an eating disorder. (Text: RTL)
