David Perlmutter

As it relates to Alzheimer's, the changes metabolically that presage the development of the cognitive issues begin 20 or 30 years ahead of time.

That's why I talk to somebody who's 28 right now and not waiting till somebody's 65 or 70 and comes to me and says, my memory's fading.

Because what's going on in your metabolism right now is critical in terms of your brain's fate, your brain's destiny.

And you, my friend, are the architect of your brain's destiny, not me as a neurologist.

It went really well.

It was great because the speaker before me was our son.

Oh, nice.

So as he walked off the stage, I gave him a hug.

He had to give me the clicker anyway, right?

Right.

And all I could think about was him when he was maybe one and a half to two years of age, and I was carrying him to his bedroom.

And, you know, I don't know why I thought about that at that exact moment.

I haven't even told him that yet, but that's a while back.

Yeah, it must have been a full circle moment for you, right?

It was great.

It was really great.

It's such a privilege and honor.

My new book, Brain Defenders, Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life.

And what it means is that upstream of all of the things that we focus on that go bad in a brain, like amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer's disease.

We were just having a conversation in the hallway about this.