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What's up, Max, how are you? So I did. I know I know what's going to. Oh man just uh first of all honor to be here.

Thank you love you and your work and yeah I mean just national treasure.

That's very nice of you. Go out on a limb and say it but no I'm super super

excited because I've been working on this documentary for the last 10 years of my life and it's finally out today which I'm super

Pomped for and it's called a little empty boxes and we talked about it the last time I was here

Mm-hmm and It's a project that means the world to me I think it's the most

important thing I've ever done it's the first ever dementia prevention

documentary about the science of dementia prevention, but it focuses, it's a very emotional and personal film for me because it follows my mom who for many years suffered from a rare form of dementia called Louis body dementia which is akin to having both

Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease at the same time.

That's at Robin Williamshead.

That's what Robin Williams had, yeah.

And it's a rare condition.

It affects about 1 million people in the United States, but it's a,

it's a dementia, and dementia is now a soaring public health problem, and there's a lot of controversy in within the field. The

last time I was here we talked about you know fraud in the in the research space with regard to the prevailing hypothesis as to

what causes Alzheimer's disease which is the most common form of dementia and

actually finally over the past month that paper was finally

retracted it took two years but um could you explain to everybody what the fraud

was yeah so basically among the dementia is Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of it and that affects about six million people in the United States and since it was first named in 1906 by physician Aloise Alzheimer the prevailing hyp 1906 Alzheimer's

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