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Well, everybody, we have a podcast. It's called Life to Fight. My, what's David? My name's David. I'm Heidi.

That's old age, Heidi. You realize I'm, I think I might got a little bit of the D, the big dementia coming in my life,

because I don't know if it's just all my concussions or having COVID and viral men and gaius, man. I've been having a hard time remembering names and places. Fortunately for me,

I got GPS and a cyborg in my hand called a, you know, a smartphone or not have to remember

anything, but I is going to be 47 next

month. And that means I'm one step closer to being wiser and forgetting things that I don't

need to remember, right? It is hard. It is, it is, it is a real thing. And I think, though,

that it's also that we like have just more things in our brain.

We have more things happening so much quicker. Like the things we got to keep in our brain,

you know, it's it's a lot. So maybe it's not just that we're, you know, getting old or that we're getting

dementia. It's just that, you know, we got to keep getting better of what we're doing.

You've got to keep working harder. There's no slowing down.

Well, tell you what, I was reading some cool, interesting statistics and listening a couple

podcasts, reviewing some things for my profession to stay updated on stuff. And I came across

this very interesting study about how sleep, getting under seven hours of sleep a night,

drastically increases the chances of you getting

dementia as you get older and so you know about a month ago I had this great idea I'm like you

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