Mark Bouris

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Absolutely.

Which forgetfulness, basically can't remember stuff.

Absolutely, yeah.

And that happens in one part of the brain, more prevalent in the hippocampus, I think.

And is it fair to say that – I don't know where I read this, but –

vision and hearing are quite important as early markers for potentially you might be getting, dementia might be coming your way down the track.

I remember Mark Penny, Professor Mark Penny, once told me about, because I was talking to him about his dad, Ron, who died from dementia.

And Ron was like a genius, skinny, fit, walked up the stairs to a level of whatever it was every day at St.

Vincent's.

And I said to Mark...

are you worried about your genetic predisposition perhaps?

And would you bother getting a genetic test for dementia?

And he said, no.

And I said, why?

And he said to me, the reason why, he said, is because even if I find out, the solution right now, I don't have any symptoms, but the solution right now would be to do high intensity exercise.

And he said, so I'm also doing it anyway, whether I get a diagnosis or not.

Therefore, I don't need the diagnosis because getting the diagnosis can cause a lot of anxiety and people do retract socially and all sorts of things.

He said, I'm better off probably not knowing.

But doing the very thing that they would recommend me do