Dr. Daniel Amen

It's a combination of being overweight and having high blood sugar.

It's a disaster for the brain.

So when I get my overweight pre-diabetic patients, I'm like, if you want to love your life for the rest of your life, we got to get this under control.

The N is neurohormones, talked about testosterone a little bit.

And the S is sleep.

So all of those things are the bad things and the good things to do for your brain.

But it all boils down to, is this good for my brain or bad for it?

Absolutely.

Now, the earlier you get it, the better, right?

If you have somebody with stage four Alzheimer's, I'm probably not going to make the biggest difference in their life.

But if they have stage one or two, or they have mild cognitive impairment, it's like, let's go.

Let's go after this.

my favorite story one of them is nancy so i did a big nfl study at a time when the nfl was sort of lying about traumatic brain injury in football was 2007 2008 2009 and ray white was one of our players he played linebacker at um

For the San Diego Chargers.

And he joined my study so I would see his wife, who had frontal temporal lobe dementia, which is wicked dementia.

At a young age.

She was in her mid-50s.

And the doctor at UC San Diego told Ray, you should find a home for her.

Oh, gosh.

Because within a year, she is not going to know your name.