Dr. Florence Comite

So they've come to the market, and you've probably seen this, with something called a continuous glucose monitor.

They do a lot of commercials, particularly for diabetics who had to be used to pricking their finger to measure their sugar.

And this little device is a wearable that sits on your tricep and can read your sugar minute to minute, the sugar that's circulating around your muscle.

And that can tell you if the food you eat, the workout you have, the stress you're under, the sleep you're getting or not getting is affecting your sugar dynamics.

Because sugar dynamics affects every single organ in our body, every cell.

I'm a little biased because I'm an endocrinologist.

And I know that this is what happens in all of us.

It's in fact why women who are pregnant and when you're pregnant, your body is handling a newborn inside internally.

You're living life with at least one other person that you have to feed and take care of in utero.

They get oral glucose tolerance tests, short ones, to say, is your sugar behaving?

Because that's a stressor.

Birth control pills in young women also change the way your body handles sugar because you suppress testosterone.

And testosterone's key for all of us.

We lose it as we age, beginning in our 30s and 40s.

So these are factors that would prevent Alzheimer's

dementia.

And all sorts of dementia is actually also preventable.

There's tons of kinds of dementias.

I can't say every single one or 100%.

The type of dementia that Bruce Willis is dealing with, there really isn't as much insight as we would like.