Alzheimer's is the third leading cause of death in America, and insulin resistance drives brain aging. Ninety percent of Americans with pre-diabetes don't know they have it because standard blood work misses it. The conversation explores how to restore memory access and prevent cognitive decline.
Alzheimer's is an almost uniformly fatal condition, the 3rd leading cause of death in adults in America.
You know, there's a lot of theories around Alzheimer's and accelerated brain aging, but many of them point to insulin resistance and high blood sugar as one of the hallmarks of accelerated neurocognitive decline.
90% of America's pre-diabetic patients don't know it because you get your annual blood work, you get a pat on the back. Well, you're not diabetic yet. Go home and hope for the best.
I really reject that in the face of 7.6 million Americans I think there are a lot of people that my age that are dealing with aging parents, and I'm hell-bent on turning this around for my mother, and to the extent that I can prevent it for other folks like my kids, that's a service that I think is well met.
I'm hell-bent on getting this message out that you could rewrite your destiny as it relates to your brain, and you absolutely can do it, and you just need the tools.
In these conditions like Alzheimer's, patients are not losing their memory per se, they're losing access to their memory. What do we do now to help them regain access to their memory? to try to restore that access.
You know, ultimately, I think well beyond what I described here is— Ultimate Human.
