Future-Proof Your Brain from Dementia & The Lifestyle Levers That Keep You Sharp with Neuroscientist Dr. Tommy Wood

The best way to minimize your risk of dementia is not sit at home by yourself chugging supplements. It's going to be much more about Dr. Tommy Wood is a UK trained physician. His research focuses on brain health across the lifespan. How things like exercise affect dementia.

If some proportion of dementias are preventable, then we must be able to change the trajectory of cognitive function and cognitive decline. What is driving this and what else should I be? focused on or thinking about. How we use our brains is the primary determinant of how they will function. Low HDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood sugar, or high blood pressure, these are all significant risk factors for dementia and they are effects of.

Tommy, so nice to meet you. Uh I am thrilled to have you here. I think your work is vitally important. It touches me personally because uh I have dementia in my family and it's been a very difficult past couple of years. I've been witness to just how devastating uh the diseases of dementia, Alzheimer's, et cetera, you know, have on not just the individual who's victimized by it, but also the families, et cetera.

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