Dr. Majid Fotuhi

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.

Again,

We know for a fact that these interventions can produce huge results in short period of time.

However, you need to do them.

And if you do a little bit at a time, you're more likely to stick with it.

So be reasonable, be nice to yourself.

Just add a little bit.

Let's say I'm gonna walk 500 steps more today.

Instead of taking the elevator, take the steps.

If you have choices throughout the day that you know are healthy choices, do a little bit.

And we're going to talk about the second pillar, third pillar soon.