Max Lugavere

So your brain is already desperately struggling to create energy by the time you, you know, receive that diagnosis.

And the buildup of amyloid plaque and these tau tangles, you know, the hallmark neuropathological

phenomena that is defining of the condition is already there in stark, to a stark degree, there's already typically widespread neuronal death.

And so the idea that you can just take like a monotherapy, like one of these drugs or injections and reverse the course of the disease that late in the game, it's just very unrealistic.

So we have to get ahead of it.

That's why

The the holy grail of dementia prevention is early diagnostic is like really pinpointing with 100% accuracy who is most at risk for developing this condition and intervening as early as possible.

Processed carbs are definitely involved.

It's not the carbohydrates per se, but it's the processing of our food.

So like refined grains, added sugars, and things like that.

There's no universe in which refined grains and added sugars are good for the brain.

Yeah.

You generally want to stay...

clear of processed, you know, refined carbohydrates and added sugar with the asterisk that the dose makes the poison.

You know, so if you eat a processed hamburger bun every now and then, like it's probably not going to kill you.

But, you know, back when I got started in this field, we had yet to really have strong observational data linking ultra processed food intake to dementia risk.

And now we have that data for every 10% increase in ultra processed foods consumed.

We see a 25% increased risk of the diagnosis of dementia.

And processed foods, you know, processed foods are not exclusively carbohydrate based.

I mean, there's processed fats, there's industrial oils added to our food supply now.