Dr. Florence Comite

In fact, you can actually measure them today.

So there are studies that have come out.

One of them is, for example,

Tau 217, there's also amyloid.

And the combination of those, you'd want to start clearing them.

You'd want to start deciding the basics are, if you smoke, try to stop smoking.

If you don't exercise, try to start exercising.

If you don't get quality sleep, which actually washes your brain at night when you sleep, deep sleep,

leads to cleaning and cleansing your brain in a way that means you're reducing your risk of Alzheimer's.

In fact, if I'm gonna point to one factor, it's quality sleep.

Quantity is important, at least six hours a night, and eight is even better.

Some of us need more, some of us need less, but six is the minimum.

You're getting quality sleep in that, which means you need deep sleep.

So one of the other factors that leads to is wearables.

Consider an Apple Watch or an Aura or a Whoop.

And those will tell you exactly what's going on during the night when you sleep.

Some people wake up after 10, 15 hours of sleep even and don't feel rested.

And that's because their quality of sleep is compromised.

A final one that affects all of us, and I actually wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Post on this at the end of last year, is sugar.

We all have, and this is something that's probably not well known, we all have a propensity for abnormal carbohydrate metabolism, which many of us think of as diabetes type 2.