Max Lugavere

So you have to leave lead with love and you have to make sure that you make that appointment.

You have to bring them to see the neurologist, not because you're shaming them, but because you love them.

And I think that's really important.

Um, and also,

there was something that I read about a couple of years after my mom had passed and it made me think differently about how I had shown up for her.

And it was, it, it basically, it broached the concept of therapeutic fibbing.

I know we're getting kind of off topic of the question, but, um, no, no, no, it's, this is important.

Um,

When somebody is struggling with cognitive decline, there's a tendency to want to correct them, to quote unquote teach them, to help nudge them back onto the correct way of thinking or to lead the horse to water and to help them.

arrive at what you think that their initial thought may have been, but therapeutic fibbing is actually, that can be a stressor.

Therapeutic fibbing on the other hand is a really compassionate way of just going along with what the person is, you know, is saying incorrect as it may be and having compassion for them because cognitive decline, it's not something, it's not their fault.

So, um, so yeah, I hope that helps.

Uh,

Moving on.

Do you have any daily habits to stay mentally sharp?

Haley Veline asked that question.

So yeah, I mean, I think I've already touched on a lot of this stuff, but I do my best to, you know, work out regularly, keep that fresh blood pumping up to

You know, up to my brain, which is really important to kind of keep track of how many hours I've spent sedentary, which as a writer, I'm prone to spending a lot of time sitting on my butt writing with my face immersed in screens, whether it's the little screen or the medium screen or the big screen.

And I think it can take some effort these days to kind of push yourself away, but it's always worth the effort because just simple movements, non-exercise physical activity can go a long way towards helping to oxygenate your brain, to pump fresh blood and nutrients and oxygen, glucose up to your metabolically hungry neurons.

And so, yeah, so I do what I can to...