Max Lugavere

I mean, I practice what I preach, but also because, I mean, we didn't even get into this.

The reason why I do what I do is because my mom had dementia and she had it for many years.

And it was the most gutting thing that I've ever experienced in my life.

It was truly heartbreaking and traumatic.

And my why is trying to understand how this condition, why this condition robbed the most important person in my life for me.

I have a bit of a photographic memory for this, you know, this data because I have such a vested interest in it.

You know, dementia is something that affects millions of people globally and numbers are set to explode in the coming years.

And my mom had it.

So my goal has always been to become a walking meta analysis of sorts for this for this data.

A loss of sense of smell is something that you want.

You know, if there's a sudden decrease in your capacity to smell, go to a doctor, like check with a neurologist.

With regards to Parkinson's disease, very few people know this, but constipation is a very early preclinical symptom of the condition.

If you have like sudden onset constipation, you know, and you've ruled out all the other obvious causes, you know, other medical causes, you haven't,

changed your diet recently you haven't gone traveling if there's something awry um i'm not saying that that that you have parkinson's disease but it's something that you might want to just like bring up to your doctor those are the primary uh you know the the two the two that i can think of off the top of my head you know any change in memory but you said non-memory related any change in memory is something that you want to um bring up to your doctor

is loneliness as dangerous to the brain as smoking some researchers have have posited that loneliness is as harmful um to the body as smoking and that's because loneliness basically is pro-inflammatory it's a stress on the body i mean we're social creatures and loneliness is distinct from being alone like you can be comfortably alone

Um, but people who really have a sense of despair, uh, around their aloneness and feel that, that sense of loneliness.

Yeah.

That, that's a stressor that can drive, you know, potentially inflammation in the body.

And again, the brain sits downstream of that.

Depression is another modifiable risk factor for, uh, Alzheimer's disease and dementia.