Dr. David Bardsley

Well, that depends on where you are now.

If you're already doing these things...

then doing them with a little more gusto will move the needle a little bit.

But if you're not already doing any of these things, you can have a very, very significant increase in that cognitive ability.

And most people that I find that I know of

are not doing these things or they're not doing them to the degree that's necessary if you want that cognitive improvement.

The Center for Disease Control in the United States estimates that by age 40, four zero, that 50% of the population start to show some signs of what's called mild cognitive impairment.

And mild cognitive impairment is, they're the first steps toward more severe cognitive impairment and ultimately with dementia and Alzheimer's.

Now, not everyone,

Not everyone who has mild cognitive impairment by any means will progress into more serious forms of dementia and Alzheimer's.

But what we do know is that 100% of the people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia started way back here with mild cognitive impairment.

And that's why it's so important to either prevent it or deal with it at that very early stage.

You know, if you notice a song comes on, and, oh, yeah, this is, oh, I recognize this song.

This is, oh, don't tell me I know who it is.

It's on the tip of my tongue, and you find you just can't make that connection to that information.

It's a sign of cognitive impairment.

Or you might feel overwhelmed.

Perhaps someone is pressing you to make a decision on something and you're not quite sure.

And it just seems like there are so many facts and information to try to make that decision, and it just seems overwhelming, and you procrastinate.

So you don't make decisions as quickly, and you're not nearly as confident in those decisions.