David Perlmutter

I mean, in America, costing us $330 billion a year right now, that's a lot of money to take care of Alzheimer's disease just in terms of taking care of them.

I think a bigger number is the emotional impact it's having on people.

And how do you quantify that?

But I've been through it.

I mean, I've been through it with my dad.

And it's life-changing for all the rest of us as well.

We need to talk about that.

Because, you know, families suffer.

Loved ones suffer.

And no one, you know, I guess some people consider that.

But that's a very big metric.

It could ever metricize.

I don't know if you can't.

But as our metabolic health gets worse, as we have higher and higher rates of diabetes, for example, we expect Alzheimer's to continue to climb.

You know, in America, even prediabetes affects a third of Americans.

And the worrisome part about that number is that 90% of them don't even know it.

Wow.

So I stand up on the platform here on your show to say, hey, let's get some lab work going.

Go to your doctor or go to Function Health or a place where you don't even have to have a doctor order it for you and find out what is not just your fasting blood sugar, but your fasting insulin level.

Because it's the fasting insulin level that tells you whether you're not on the road to becoming even pre-diabetic.