Dhru Purohit

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.

Yeah, it's an important message.

It's never too late to start, but the earlier you start,

Regardless of what age you are, which means that there's things that you can do today to give love and attention to, you can radically help your brain not shrink and actually even get a little bit better.

So you said fitness is number one, not living a sedentary lifestyle, auditing your level of activity.

You know, if you're only getting 4,000 steps, try to double it is what a lot of people have recommended.

What do you think about that advice, at least as a starting place?

Are there other things for people who are like, you know what?

I'm really not as active as I'd like to be.

Yeah, that's great advice.

Is there also to a level that if they don't eventually get to that place, we're not going to see the improvements that people are looking for, or that just depends on their age and how far along they are and how much damage they've had.