Tommy Wood

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The mindbodygreen Podcast · 645: The truth about cognitive decline and what you can do about it | Tommy Wood, M.D., Ph.D. · 12 Apr 2026 podcast

So yes, I think just the process of being out in the real world, learning and doing things with other people is a critical component of all of this.

And

It's also a critical reason to do all of this because there's very few people who want to live to be 100 or longer with their cognition intact.

Actually, most people just want to have their cognition intact even if they just live to be 80.

Very few people want to do that just so they can sit at home feeling smart.

They want to do it so that they can continue to connect with loved ones and spend time with them and remember that.

So I think that our social brain is really a big driver of this requirement, but then also the reason to do it in the first place.

I'd love to see a large-scale practical version of some of the more advanced kind of interventional studies that we've seen in cognitive function.

There was recently published this sort of precision medicine approach, or it's actually not published, it was published as a preprint, but Dale Bredesen's precision medicine approach to cognitive decline.

And their results, they haven't been formally published yet, but they look very impressive.

So people are already experiencing decline, seeing reversal of that.

So one study that I would want to see is how do we apply this in a practical manner at scale?

Because a lot of the stuff that they're doing in that study is going to be really hard.

All the testing and supplements and all these kind of things are just going to be really hard to scale.

When we know that what we could potentially layer on is more community connection and community aspects of physical activity and volunteering, plus a little bit of targeted...

So we do some comprehensive blood tests and we give people blood pressure medication if they need it.

And we address their cardiovascular risk factors and we give them B vitamins if they have high homocysteine and this kind of stuff.

And so it's kind of like a middle ground between studies like Pointer, which people may have heard of.

So that was this big study that was published last year.

Older adults at risk of cognitive decline.

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