The 2 Overlooked Ways to Prevent Cognitive Decline | Dr. Andrew Weil

I wanted to ask you first about cognitive decline. And I feel like a lot of people, especially over the last few years, have a fear of cognitive decline from foods they've eaten, from potential injections they've taken or other things they've or medicines that maybe are hurting or helping. So I wanted to talk about cognitive decline first and your thoughts about this. I think there's a lot of fear out there about it also because people know people with cognitive decline. You know, we people have relatives who've bec who've developed dementia.

We see people whose memories are failing. I know a lot of people, if they, if they have memory lapses, immediately begin to think, am I getting Alzheimer's? You know, there's just a lot of fear around that. Yeah. So what what is the root cause of Alzheimer's?

We don't know. We don't know. I mean, there is a a a minority of cases are genetic or familial, but most of them aren't, and we really don't know. I I have to say my gut feeling with a lot of neurodegenerative disease, certainly with Parkinson's disease and ALS, I think these are environmentally caused mostly. Really?

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