Dr. Majid Fotuhi

People who walk three to 5,000 steps a day reduce the amount of tau in the brain, the marker of Alzheimer's disease in the brain.

People who eat a Mediterranean diet

on a regular basis have brains that are up to 18 years younger than people who don't eat a Mediterranean diet.

These simple lifestyle choices make a huge difference.

So,

You know, I appreciate that if somebody has sleep apnea, they're tired.

They don't pretend to be tired during the day.

They're tired.

They just have no energy.

They take naps.

They have to keep drinking coffee to stay awake.

You need to take care of your medical conditions first.

There are two things you have to do.

Lifestyle interventions and taking care of your medical conditions.

An example of medical condition is sleep apnea.

When people snore at night,

periodically stop breathing during the night and during the day they're tired, they can't think straight and they're diagnosed with sleep apnea.

Sleep apnea can shrink your brain by 18% untreated sleep apnea.

So you have sleep apnea and you set goals, I'm going to do this, do that, but you have no energy to do it, then you're not going to get very far.

So if you have sleep apnea, if you have depression, if you have hearing or vision loss, take care of those medical things first, because you need to have the energy to incorporate these five pillars of brain health.