Why You're Forgetting Words (And It's Not Dementia)

What if memory loss doesn't start in the brain? If you've been forgetting words, losing focus, or wondering, is this just stress or something more? You're not alone. For many people, the earliest drivers show up years earlier as chronic stress, blood sugar imbalance, inflammation, and biological burnout. Today I'm joined by Claudine Francois, board-certified functional and holistic health practitioner and author of Your Midlife Body Code. We're unpacking the early signs the body gives and how midlife changes affect the brain, our health, and what prevention can look like long before diagnosis. Welcome, Claudine.

Thank you so much for having me. It's great to see you.

It's great to have you again. I always love having you on the show. It's been several times and it's always great information for the audience. Alzheimer's is often talked about as something that suddenly appears, but for many people, It's the end of a much longer story the body has been telling for many years. You often say that the body gives us data, not just random symptoms. What early signals might the body give the brain that— oh, sorry, give that the brain needs more support?

Yeah, absolutely. The body is giving us early data, as you mentioned, early symptoms. And there are a lot of things that people can look out for if they are either predisposed to Alzheimer's or they're concerned about potential of having Alzheimer's. So if you have things like subtle brain fog, forgetfulness, irritability, or poor focus, your body is reaching out. It's saying, hey, there's something going on here. And that's usually a sign that there is underlying either inflammation blood sugar imbalance, the things that you talked about, right?

Mm.

So, your body is— it's basically the body can't communicate with words, so it has to communicate with symptoms. It's the only way. And, that's why in my book I talk about we decode these symptoms to tell you what they actually mean. It's like you're given the key or the translator app to your body. So, that brain fog, that forgetfulness, also sleep disturbances. A lot of women I know and men too, they wake up at 3:00 a.m.

Right.

That is a sign that you have underlying inflammation, whether it's stress, right? Stress-related cortisol imbalance. It could be that you have gut issues that are waking you up at 3:00 AM. So that's definitely something you wanna look into. Fatigue despite doing quote unquote all the right things, right? If you're tired all the time, that is a problem. Your body is not meant to be tired all the time. And I know many of us just think, well, A, I'm getting older, or B, of course I'm tired, I'm doing all these things. It is a sign for you to slow down or to delegate some of those things or to look into what could be the underlying reasons for the fatigue. But also mood changes, low motivation, or difficulty finding words. You know, we call it word-finding challenges. None of these are normal aging. They're all data points pointing us towards, you know, investigation. We need to investigate further to figure out what, what's going on.

The common ones are kind of like forgetfulness, brain fog, like you were saying. Is there any way that someone who's starting to feel these can start to decode what their body is telling them themselves?

Well, absolutely. So if you're starting to have these challenges, you could take different tests, right? We'd use— we use tests in functional medicine. Um, there are very, very specific functional tests. There's the mineral test, the hair tissue mineral analysis, the HTMA. That will tell us if you're low in key minerals or if you have certain toxins, toxic metals in your body, right? Those can all impact your Toxins can sit on your brain. Um, and if you're low in minerals, whether it's sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, if you don't have the right minerals, nothing in your body is getting to where it needs to go, right? So it's kind of like the tugboats in the port. If the tugboats aren't there, if the tugboats go on strike, none of the big ships are getting to where they need to go. And same thing with your body. The nutrients cannot get into the cells without these minerals. So taking that test really helps determine what your mineral status is and if you need certain ones of those to replenish so that your body can actually work properly. That's actually a really common sign of fatigue, especially I see this in midlife women not having enough sodium and potassium to get those minerals in the body. That's pretty common. Same thing with magnesium. Pretty much everyone has a magnesium deficiency cuz we're all stressed out. And magnesium is one of the first to go. But you can also run a GI map, which is a stool sample, and that tells us what's going on in your gut microbiome. There's that superhighway that runs between the gut and the brain called the vagus nerve. And so, what happens in your gut is going to show up in your brain. So, running a gut test, the GI Map, is really critical to finding out what could be impacting your brain and creating more inflammation in the body. There's a DUTCH test, which is a stress and hormone panel. And, that tells us, is your cortisol off the charts or has your cortisol been— has your body been running on fumes for so long that your cortisol is just tanked? You know, it really tells us what's going on there as well as, you know, hormones that influence your sleep, your energy, and your memory. And then a really great test is a total tox burden test. And this is a urine test and it basically tells us, do you have mold or mycotoxins, which are the, the poisons from mold? Do you have certain heavy metals? Do you have environmental chemicals?

Hmm.

You know, a lot of people have like BPA and you hear about like all the toxic Plastics. Um, and those, you know, any kind of toxin can increase your risk for getting diseases like Alzheimer's.

What I'm understanding is this is kind of like, uh, like a precursor to Alzheimer's.

Inflammation?

Yes. What you were talking about, if you have mineral depletion, if you're, you know, stressed out, if you don't have everything for cognitive function, are they kind of like not being depleted? Is that kind of like that precursor to Alzheimer's, as opposed to like— a friend of mine has just actually been diagnosed with early onset, um, Alzheimer's, and they realized that she had that. Well, she had confusion. She was only like 300 meters away from her house and she was completely lost for like 20 minutes. And, you know, she gets disorientated. They found out through like a spine fluid test. Did she have all this running before it showed up In her spinal fluid test?

Oh, absolutely. I mean, in functional medicine, we call what we look at pre-disease markers. So in a traditional medicine environment, they're usually running a blood test, right? And they have these huge ranges on the blood test to determine if you're quote unquote normal. Well, that huge range just means that if you're outside of the range, now they can do something, right? They can give you a pill, they can give you a surgery, et cetera. But in functional medicine, we're looking at a much tighter range so that we can tell when you're starting to inch Out of that ideal range so we can bring you back in. Traditional medicine isn't looking when you're heading towards the cliff. They wait till you get off the cliff before— I mean, horrible analogy, you know?

You've jumped.

Right? They're like, we can't do anything until you've gotten off the cliff. Um, but yeah, so in functional medicine, we're looking at those pre-disease markers so we can help you get back to what we call homeostasis or your ideal plate, the ideal Uh, place for your body before you have to be diagnosed with something.

Definitely. That's what I do love about, you know, functional medicine testing, because they did a brain scan on her and they did a couple other things and said, oh no, there's nothing there. And it wasn't until they did the spinal tap that they found it. But I'm just wondering what it is that's happening, because she's like my age, and what it is about her biological makeup that is moving towards Alzheimer's. She had doesn't have it in the family. You can't blame genetics there or anything like that. So yeah, it's very curious about how this makes me think about our lifestyle, our environment, and especially our chronic stress or our nervous dysregulation. How does that play into this whole Alzheimer picture or the increase towards getting Alzheimer Alzheimer's or cognitive Decline.

Chronic stress is keeping the body in fight or flight, right? And if we're in fight or flight, you're not in rest and repair, repair. You're not detoxifying the toxins that have come in all day from the air, from the water, from the plastics we use, from the things we're putting on our skin. So if you're in that fight or flight, your body's normal standard operating procedures and detoxification are not happening. So that's one. 2 is that that elevated cortisol actually damages Neurons, right? It's actually damaging the nerves in your brain. It's shrinking the hippocampus, okay, the command center. It's increasing inflammation in the brain. And when you are stressed, we call this nervous system dysregulation, then your digestion, your sleep, your detox pathways, they all slow down. And those are all needed for brain repair, right? If you think about when we're sleeping at night, that's when all of these These repair processes happen. So if you're not sleeping, you're not repairing. So in the Midlife Body or Midlife Body Code, I talk about how repair only happens when the body feels safe, right? And you can't feel safe when you're stressed. But that same, the same philosophy is true for the brain. Safety is really the entry point for healing.

Alzheimer's. I've heard 2 kind of descriptions around Alzheimer's, and I've heard people say Alzheimer's is not in the brain, that Alzheimer's starts in the mitochondria, and also it's called type 3 diabetes now. How can you explain the link between blood sugar imbalance, insulin resistance, and then brain degeneration?

The brain is really sensitive to blood sugar fluctuate— fluctuation. And so what do I mean by blood sugar fluctuations? I'm talking about when you either Don't eat all day and then you have a big meal, or you snack all day, or you have like sugary or carby things and your blood sugar spikes and then it just tanks. Versus someone who has stable blood sugar is someone who's eating like at least 20 to 30 grams of protein per meal, 3 times a day. And so you're keeping that steady energy throughout the day. If you don't have that steady energy, you're going to be making your body more insulin resistant, right? So it can't use insulin as efficiently and it kind of just keeps it in the system all the time because it's like, well, we're going to be needing this all day long. Y'all, when your brain is— what your brain— the way your brain reacts to that is it— when you have this like spike and drop, you don't have the steady blood sugar. It actually starves your brain of glucose, which is the main fuel, right? Because your body's keeping the insulin in the rest of the body because it's thinking, oh, I'm gonna have to metabolize these, these quick sugars all day long. So it's keeping them out of your brain, which needs it. The really important thing is that These chronically elevated insulin levels lead to inflammation, and they also lead to those amyloid plaque formations, right? That's the hallmark of Alzheimer's. So it's creating these plaques in the brain. If you think about plaque on your teeth that you have to go to the dentist to get off, who's gonna get the plaque off your brain? The interesting thing about the population that I work with, which is mostly midlife women, is that we often develop insulin resistance as we get older.

Mm-hmm.

Because there is a, uh, correlation between dropping estrogen and becoming more insulin resistant. So we actually have to be even smarter about how we eat throughout the day rather than, you know, a lot of women I work with will either really restrict their calories or they will go all day not eating because they're too busy and then they'll eat a lot at night or, you know, one meal a day. And that's actually not helping because we need that stable blood sugar through those protein-rich meals and balanced minerals to protect not only your metabolism but also your memory.

Some people say to keep your blood sugar level so it doesn't do those big drops, they say like have 6 little meals a day, or have, you know, spread out your meals all throughout the day. And you've just said that snacking all day, which is kind of like having those 6 or so little meals a day, is just not the way to go.

I used to do that all day long. I didn't realize that I was living on carbs. Like, I was using carbs as my main source of energy rather than protein.

Oh, right.

And so I would, you know, I'd have breakfast before I left. Let's say I had oatmeal. Okay, I used to think oatmeal was a healthy way to start the breakfast, but it's really spiking your blood sugar, and then you have this crash. So in order to avoid the crash, you have to have coffee, or I'd have to have some kind of snack at like 8 o'clock when I got to work. Um, and then I'd be hungry, or I'd have a crash again at 10:30, so then I'd have to do that again. Yes, I'm constantly replenishing the glucose in my system to just keep that high.

Yes.

So, in a way, yes, you're right. If you keep eating all day, you'll keep your blood sugar steady in terms of keeping it really high. You don't want to keep it really high though. You want to keep it stable at the right level. So, if I had had a high-protein meal for breakfast that keeps me satiated until lunch, and then I have another high-protein meal, instead of having these spikes, I'd be steady.

So a bit like diabetes, to prevent like type 2 diabetes— now this is known as type 3 diabetes— they say to have, you know, protein in every meal to keep it, like you said, that steady line. What kind of nutrition in each meal would you recommend, and what kind of lifestyle changes would you recommend?

You definitely want to make sure you have, like I said, 20 to 30 grams of protein per meal. Now, sometimes people think that I mean you have to eat meat at every meal, and if that is your preferred form of protein, great. But some people look at— some of these women look at me and they're like, I don't eat that much meat, or I don't like meat, or whatever it is. There are plenty of other sources of protein. You could do eggs, you could do nuts, you could do beans, which are great in fiber as well. So yeah, in terms of your meals, you want to have protein, you want to have fiber, you want to have some healthy fats. And those could really make up a solid meal, making sure you're having it 3 times a day. I've had some women tell me, I just can't eat first thing in the morning, I'm not hungry. If you're not hungry first thing in the morning, that is a sign that your liver is backed up and you need to address that, right? So there are different things you can do if you're not hungry to help your body clear out so that it's ready for food. But you definitely, in order to keep your blood sugar stable, which keeps inflammation down, which staves off chronic illness of any sort, Alzheimer's or anything else, you really want to make sure you're having those 3 stable, 3 high-protein meals per day.

And what about lifestyle? Is there, you know, we talk about exercise for our heart or exercise for our diabetes. Is there anything in particular that's good for our cognitive function and to stave off Alzheimer's, dementia?

I would say it's pretty much the same, right? You still want to have, you still want to have exercise, like some kind of movement, right? I don't love saying exercise because I think some people get a negative connotation when you say exercise. Um, but you do want to have some kind of movement. That's really helpful. Um, I don't know if you've ever read the Blue Zones book or heard about the Blue Zones.

Yes.

It was a study done by National Geographic. They basically have done studies on longevity and they find that the people who live the longest, healthiest lives in different parts of the world, they get a good night's sleep. They are doing some kind of movement because movement increases what's called BDNF. It's a protein that strengthens your neurons and it supports your memory. It's actually been called the Miracle-Gro, you know, like the Miracle-Gro of the brain. Have you heard of Miracle-Gro? It's like a thing here we put on plants and it's like, oh, the plant grows.

Oh.

It's like that for the brain. So that's what movement does. So doing some kind of movement, you know, 10, 15 minutes a day, and it doesn't have to be huge. It could be you're sitting at your desk and you're doing little calf raises. Or you're holding onto, you know, like something heavy and you're just kind of doing arm crunches. It could be you get up from your desk and you do little pushups off of the corner of your desk. It can be anything, right? Just spending some time doing movement because that gets the body moving. It moves your glucose around, like it's utilizing, it's strengthening. But also social connection is really important, right? Social connection is protective. And loneliness increases Alzheimer's risk just as much as smoking or obesity, strangely enough. And again, the people who live the longest, happiest lives in the Blue Zones, they are usually surrounded by friends and family and they have a purpose, right? So they are doing something every day to interact with other people. I mean, in general, I would say the brain thrives on a consistent schedule, whether that's sleep, movement, connection, or purpose. It loves consistency. So finding a, like a rhythm or a groove that works for you is, that includes those things, is really helpful.

Let's talk about the role of any existing conditions that one might have, including something like autoimmunity. And does that play into the development of Alzheimer's?

Well, yeah, absolutely. So Alzheimer's actually is now considered an autoimmune condition. It's an inflammatory and an autoimmune condition. Okay. Because it's essentially the immune system attacking the brain. So if you have things like chronic, we call it gut permeability, you might know it as leaky gut. Right. So if you have chronic leaky gut, chronic blood sugar swings, if you have toxic exposure, all of those drive inflammation. So finding ways, of course, to address those, but also making sure that you're living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. So first, of course, the most obvious thing is food. So eating anti-inflammatory foods like salmon, olive oil, avocados, really colorful produce, those all help the immune system naturally.

Yeah.

But then when I say anti-inflammatory lifestyle, that means getting a good night's sleep, releasing stress, right? Because you can't, you can't avoid stress, but you can learn how to release it, you know, using healthy fats. Those are all just as critical as any supplement.

I actually just went to a retreat on the weekend and we did a lot of breathwork. I've never felt so calm and released so much sort of tension and pain in my body just through Doing the breath. So something like that would be most probably— someone could learn to do at home through just YouTube, just learning that sort of rhythmic breathing, or the what they call the, the full breath in, hold for 7, release for 8. That's what we did. And it was— and I did, you know what the interesting thing is? I felt so much clearer in my mind, sort of like breathing out some cobwebs. It doesn't have to be like major things. It can be Simple things like just breathing deeply.

It could be breathwork, it could be walking in nature, it could be stretching. I mean, interesting that you bring up breathwork because yes, breathwork in all of the iterations that we have now are fantastic. Also, every major religion of the world has some sort of prayer, form of prayer that involves a cadence. Like if you think of like Catholic prayers or Jewish prayers or Hindu prayers, like all of these, they have this cadence that actually forces you to breathe at certain points, that is breathwork. So for people who love to, for example, pray the rosary, that actually is a form of breathwork. Or if, you know, think of Hasidic Jews and they have the little prayer shawls and they're doing the, the rocking while they have a certain prayer, that is breathwork. So you can find ways to relax your nervous system, to release stress in a myriad of ways, and you just need to find a way that works for you.

I did read, and I did mention it before, I did read about the mitochondria, and they were saying that when there's so much toxins and junk in quotations in the mitochondria and it can't function and it can't get it out. That is one of the major contributors to Alzheimer's. There is the big discussion around aluminium that, you know, being very toxic to the brain. So what are some of the, you know, really the realistic ways that people can reduce their toxic load without, you know, restoring to fear-based approaches and going to extreme measures?

Yeah. Avoiding aluminum cookware. So, for example, I have aluminum baking pans, right? But I put down baking sheets, right? I put down parchment paper first on top of the baking sheets themselves so that my food isn't touching the sheet, the aluminum. Um, same thing with like, you know how a lot of people use aluminum foil to cover something?

Yes.

If I'm going to use aluminum foil to cover something, I'll put parchment paper on first. That's touching the food and then the aluminum foil. Even if I'm like in the oven and you don't want it to brown too much.

Yes.

So that's an easy fix there. Um, deodorant is another big source of aluminum, you know, uh, antiperspirants and deodorants. So making sure you're getting one that doesn't have it. Now there's a resource, um, called the Environmental Working Group or ewg.org. You can always check any of your personal care products on there to see if they meet the EWG seal of approval. They have different— they have like the EWG was like the best and then they have like 1, 2, 3. I don't even know how high Up it goes. But they basically rate things based on how toxic they are. You can check there. But I do love the deodorants that are magnesium-based. Strangely, magnesium, even if you did magnesium oil, it actually is a great deodorant. Who knew?

Who knew?

Yeah. And it's great because we all need more magnesium anyway, cuz we're, we're burning through it as we're stressed out. Um, and then filtering your water is really great too. There's so many toxic chemicals in our water that just getting a, an above Like on-the-counter filter or getting something on your faucet. Um, we do shower— uh, on our showers we have water filters, right? Because you— your skin is your biggest organ, it's absorbing. So that's another great way. And then baking powder. I don't know about where you are, but here they for some reason put aluminum in the baking powder.

They do here too.

You can get aluminum-free baking powder, or I just take baking soda and cream of tartar, and you put like half a cup of baking soda and a quarter cup of cream of tartar, you mix them together, that is baking powder. Yeah, you just— and I just make it myself. I'm like, why should I bother getting this stuff? Because even if you get non-aluminum baking powder, it still has cornstarch in it. I'm like, ugh, can I just have the regular stuff? The stuff I need.

To stave off these conditions, a very clean diet. You have to have a clean diet. You can't have, you know, a processed, you know, preservative, toxic-filled diet. And when you do have time to make whatever you can, even something like that would be A minute to put together. All these little things add up.

And then if you want to, I will call it excrete your toxins, right? If you want to get the toxins out of your body, you want to support your detox pathways. So doing Epsom salt baths are great. That actually is a— I call the Epsom salt baths a threefer because not only are you pulling toxins out of your body, you're absorbing the magnesium from the Epsom salt and you're forcing yourself to relax for 20 to 30 minutes, which is all great. Um, making sure you're having regular bowel movements because if not, your toxins are reabsorbing into your body. That's really important. And then if you really— if you want to know, um, where your body's challenges are, you know, if you want to like try to get rid of the hidden toxins, you know, support your liver and your lymph, you can do that with functional testing.

We've talked about the, the metals, you know, like especially aluminum. Everyone knows that's a huge one. It's been around for a long time. So which nutrients have the strongest, uh, relationship with memory and cognition? You know, People talk about B12, vitamin, especially vitamin D. A lot of people talk about vitamin D depression leading to, you know, brain fog, your omega-3s. A lot of people don't talk about here is what you've mentioned is vitamin E. So someone understands that they can either supplement under guidance or bring in more foods with these nutrients, these vitamins in them.

You've hit on them. So B12, that's really important for what's called the myelin sheath. It's like this cushion around your nerves. And it's, it's important for that protection that makes those neurotransmitters work and keeps them safe. And neurotransmitters are basically all these little chemical messengers in your brain, right? So think serotonin and dopamine. And when you're deficient in B12, it actually accelerates brain shrinkage. We don't want brain shrinkage. Nobody wants that. So getting your B12 is really important. Vitamin D, like you mentioned, it actually supports nerve growth and brain plasticity. Okay, we want our brain to remain plastic. We want to be able to learn new things. And when we have low vitamin D, it's linked to faster cognitive decline, which Alzheimer's is basically, you know, you're, you're declining cognitively. Vitamin E is a really powerful antioxidant. It protects brain cell membranes. And then omega-3s, as you mentioned, especially DHA, those are structural fats for brain cells. Your brain is mostly fat, so you need the fats to make the fat. When we have low DHA, it's really strongly associated with the memory loss in Alzheimer's. And then of course you always wanna have magnesium and zinc because those help support your neurotransmitter balance. But yeah, getting your minerals, it's really hard, I would say, to get all your vitamins and minerals from food these days cuz our food just isn't as nutritious anymore. Um, but you can do testing to find out where you're low.

Mm-hmm.

You know, where your body has, is depleted so that you can support it accordingly. And there's also, um, the great thing is there's now DNA testing to tell you You know, does your body actually not convert B vitamins? Does it not convert D, vitamin D, to something usable? So you can know that, you know, for your body you have to either take a different form or you have to take more than the average person.

And what kind of testing is—

Yeah, the one I like to use is called the MaxGen DNA, but there are all sorts of DNA tests out there. It's just the reason I like that one is because it's very easy for a client to read and understand and take the information and go with it.

And that's, that is, I think, really important because you can't just jump onto supplements. People, many people supplement without actually knowing, do I need Am I deficient? So then they can go too high, too low, out of balance. One, one can actually, if one's too high, it actually disrupts the other, you know. So that's where someone like you with all the functioning, functional testing, these genetic testing or DNA testing is so important, especially if you're starting to feel the symptoms like we said, confusion, brain fog, anything like that, a sluggishness, tiredness. Keep repeating the same thing and not realizing that you've said it. A friend of mine, she's kind of told me the same story several times. She doesn't realize that she's told me that. And I think around that also, the emotional social aspect, not to shame, you know, there's all that as well that people have to be aware of. Or even someone who does feel that cognitive decline needs to come and see you early and not feel shame around the fact that You're not as cognitively, you know, uh, sparky bright as you were maybe a couple of years ago. And that way you can get onto it early, you know, as opposed to late stage. How does your Midlife Code framework help people decode, realign, and reclaim their brain health long before a diagnosis?

Well, yeah, thanks for bringing that up. So in the book, I do have that framework that decode your symptoms, decode your body, realign, and reclaim. So when you're decoding the symptoms, you're identifying what is, I'll say, taxing your brain, right? Is it blood sugar issues? Is it inflammation? Or is it toxic? If you don't know what to fix, you can't fix it. So figuring out what it is you need to address is decode. Realign is then taking that information and making the appropriate decisions with it. Okay, we know that these certain things need addressing. How are we going to address it? Do we need to, um, do we need more of certain vitamins and minerals? Do we need to clean up the gut? Do we need to address blood sugar imbalances? Do we need to work on Getting out and about more, having more connection with other people or more time in nature or whatever it is, right? It's a holistic look. It's not just supplements. And then reclaiming is experiencing that renewed energy. So, once you've realigned, once you've got the basics down, your minerals, your sleep, your nourishment, your nervous system regulation, you can then have more energy, have more clarity, have more mental sharpness because Even the people I work with in midlife, you know, as they start to feel some symptoms, they feel like, oh, is this, is this it? Is this, is this where I just start going downhill? But it doesn't have to be a decline, right? This is your body telling you, hey, it's time to realign so that you can live a healthy, happy life going forward, right? You don't want to keep going down that same road. You want to switch tracks and go the other way. And that's, that's basically your body giving you that out.

If someone is, if someone listening, is concerned about where they are and they don't know where to start, what is the very first step you would encourage them to take after today's conversation?

Well, the easiest thing I would say is you can get your minerals in, right? You can get some magnesium lotion or take an Epsom salt bath to get that magnesium in. You can start putting salt and cream of tartar in your water to get your electrolytes in. That's really easy. You can change your deodorant to a magnesium-based brand. That, that isn't too Tasking, I don't think, for someone, right? But if you really want to know like where you are in this process— are you in the decode part of the process? Are you in the realign process?— then you can— they can definitely take my free Midlife Body Code quiz, and that will basically tell them which phase they're in and what to do first. So I'm sure you'll give them that link.

Yeah, that'll be in the show notes.

Yeah, and they'll get the answers right away.

Claudine, thank you for that. These are actionable things people can do. Everything that you've talked about throughout this episode are things that people can do to either prevent getting Alzheimer's Or if you feel you're on that path or you feel that you are developing cognitive decline, you can do this to make that trajectory so much further away for yourself just by lifestyle changes, you know, your minerals, uh, what you eat, exercise, everything. It's not, uh, rocket science, basically. It's, you know, good lifestyle changes.

Absolutely. You can do it.

You can do it.

We can do it.

Absolutely. You need that motivation though, don't you? Fantastic. Thank you, Claudine. So good having you on the show. And all of Claudine's information, the quiz, all of her links to contact her will be in the show notes. Do, if you do feel you've got cognitive decline, reach out. She's fabulous. Thank you so much.

Thank you.