Dr. Charles Mok explains how Alzheimer's risk rises with age but early interventions can slow brain decline. Social interaction, learning new skills, periodic fasting, and certain supplements may help, though what works depends on individual factors and personal tolerance.
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Alzheimer's is going to be growing in our society as we live longer, we're going to have less cancers, less heart disease or we're going to have delayed heart disease, which as we get older the risk of Alzheimer's goes up significantly. And if you intervene at an earlier point, you can change the outcome of your brain age. And there's a lot of things that are very simple, like social interactions, learning new things, learning new tasks, periodic fasting, certain supplements that may be beneficial. But really sometimes people don't want to do those things. Specific efforts if they're already in good shape. So if I was at 88, I might say, well, I'm pretty happy with that. If I'm above the 50 percentile, you know, the chance of me getting Alzheimer's in the next 20 years is pretty slim. That's good. I wanted to be at the 99 percentile, so I did some particular efforts.