Max Lugavere

The top five to 10 things you do that are non-negotiable to prevent dementia.

That is a fantastic place to start.

And let's keep things.

We'll try to I'll do my best to distill my top five, because if I tried to list off 10, we'd probably be here all day.

My top five things.

Well, first, I think it's really important to protect your head, protect your noggin, which is maybe not what you expected me to say first.

But I think it's really important to avoid head injury.

especially as somebody who carries one of the more well-defined, one of the most well-defined risk gene for Alzheimer's disease, the APOE4 allele.

I carry one copy.

It's really important to protect your head, make sure that you're not sustaining any head injuries.

And if you have in the past to make sure that you are being treated appropriately for that injury.

But I personally, just to show you how this has become

Literally a non-negotiable for me.

I was in 2020, I took up boxing and I was regularly seeing a boxing trainer, a personal boxing trainer, and I was getting really good.

I was really enjoying it.

It was the first time I'd ever been engaged intellectually in a martial art and I was doing it.

a couple of times a week until one training session, we decided to practice sparring and my mind just wandered and I got hit in the head and it wasn't even that hard, but I thought to myself, okay, I'm not trying to be a professional boxer by any means.

and um and this is just too risky of a of a sport for me to try to play um especially given my familial history and my genetic background so i decided to stop um boxing i mean i guess i could have kept it up at a more casual you know and continued in a more casual way but um

But yeah, it just kind of too risky.

So now I kind of primarily, yeah, I primarily have defaulted to my what has always existed for me as a form of exercise, which is, you know, walking, weight training, heavy resistance training and the like.