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What's up Max? How are you?

What up?

Nice to meet you. Same.

I've enjoyed your content online, so it's excited to meet you in person.

Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.

So you were telling me before we got rolling, said save it let's just talk about it what

this Alzheimer's yeah things that you're doing what do you do yeah so I've been deeply

immersed in the in the Alzheimer's dementia prevention world for the past almost decade at this point.

I'm not a just to lay it out up front. I'm not a medical doctor.

I didn't take the academic route.

I started college sort of on a pre-med track but what ended up happening was I ended up going into journalism straight out of college and I ended up working for a TV network in the US that was backed by Al Gore back in the day and so I got to hone my storytelling chops there but I had always been really passionate about health, nutrition, medicine, things like that.

But in 2011 my mother started to display the earliest symptoms of what would ultimately be

Diagnosed as a form of dementia called Louis body dementia, which is a rare form of dementia one

Robin Williams had that. Yeah.

Terrible condition.

It's described as feeling like having like you have both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's

disease at the same time and certainly that's what I observed in my mom. And so when

she started to display those symptoms it had taken me and my family completely

off guard. I had no prior family history of any kind of

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