Dhru Purohit

Many of these people that ended up with, you know, mild cognitive decline all the way to full blown Alzheimer's.

And then within that, you have different stages, as you mentioned, right?

There's the mild, medium, super severe.

And you're talking about how even people, if you catch it early enough with Alzheimer's, you're seeing programs like Dean Ornish's, programs like yours, being able to actually address things, improve things for those folks.

When you look at the lifestyle that many of these individuals have had, I think a big part of your point here today for people like me who are in my mid-40s is that, hey, don't wait.

till you have that decline that's there.

Audit your lifestyle now and see, are you doing a lot of these things?

How is your lifestyle compared to these key five pillars and a lot of the behaviors that are associated with them?

Is that fair to say?

Too much damage.

so let's talk about these five pillars you know we briefly touched on them but that podcast was such a long time ago there's a lot of people that are listening here they don't know about that they didn't get a chance to hear it and they want to know what are the key things here that lead to

preventing our brain from shrinking and in many cases are applying this idea that you've talked about for years, which is if you don't use it, you're going to lose it.

And not just with intellectual games, but also your body, because your body and your brain are connected.

So let's go through these five pillars.

Which one do you want to talk about first?

By far.

Yeah, and if we look at it on a global level, even in countries that largely had not crazy levels of Alzheimer's or had low levels of Alzheimer's, we're seeing these rates increase and they're going in the opposite direction is we have people becoming more and more sedentary, especially obviously in Western society.

So it's no surprise that we're living in a more sedentary life

and people are literally not getting any steps especially as they get older uh except maybe to the fridge or you know to the bathroom and you have this explosion in cognitive decline alzheimer's that are there so fitness is number one really paying attention to that and taking a look at where you stand whatever age you are and seeing like can you do the things that healthy people your age should be able to do when it comes to fitness

They're not necessarily- Natural experimentation.