Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health and science journalist, author, and host of The Genius Life podcast. His debut film Little Empty Boxes is out now. http://littleemptyboxes.com www.maxlugavere.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day what's up max how are you so good i know what's cracking Oh man, just first of all, honored to be here. Thank you. Love you and your work. And yeah, I mean, just a national treasure.
That's very nice of you.
Go out on a limb and say it. But no, I'm super, super excited because I've been working on this documentary for the last 10 years of my life. And it's finally out today, which I'm super pumped for. It's called Little Empty Boxes. And we talked about it the last time I was here.
Mm-hmm.
And it's a project that means the world to me. I think it's the most important thing I've ever done. And it's the first ever dementia prevention documentary about the science of dementia prevention. But it focuses, it's a very emotional and personal film for me because it follows my mom.
who for many years suffered from a rare form of dementia called Lewy body dementia, which is akin to having both Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease at the same time. That's what Robin Williams had. That's what Robin Williams had, yeah. And it's a rare condition.
It affects about one million people in the United States, but it's a dementia, and dementia is now a soaring public health problem. And there's a lot of controversy within the field. The last time I was here, we talked about fraud in the research space with regard to the prevailing hypothesis as to what causes Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of dementia.
And actually, finally, over the past month, that paper was finally retracted. It took two years. Could you explain to everybody what the fraud was? Yeah, so basically, among the dementias, Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of it, and that affects about 6 million people in the United States.
And since it was first named in 1906 by physician Alois Alzheimer, the prevailing hypothesis as to what causes Alzheimer's disease, dubbed the amyloid hypothesis, has been that this plaque formed by a precursor protein called amyloid beta accumulates in the brain,
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