What's going on friends welcome to another episode of the Genius Life I'm your host Max

Lugovir of Filmmaker Health and Science Share and I'll listen to the author of the New York Times

best-selling book Genius Foods. In this episode of the show I'm super excited to introduce you to

my good friend Michael Trainor. Michael is the co-creator of Global Citizen, a huge music festival

dedicated to ending poverty around the world and he's also the founder of Peak Mind which helps

people achieve peak performance through meditation. But over the next hour we're going to zero in

on Alzheimer's disease, specifically what it's like to have a loved one with the condition.

Now before we get into it, some statistics. Alzheimer's disease is now America's number one most

fear disease. In the past 10 years, deaths from Alzheimer's are related to Mention's have increased

70 percent. Worldwide 45 million people are living with dementia and by 2050 that number will rise

to 135 million. In the US alone, one in three seniors will die of the disease or another dementia

and it will cost the nation 203 billion dollars this year. Finally, if you make it to the age of 85

today, you have a 50 percent chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and no medications

have been shown to prevent or cure it. Statistics aside, it's a condition that is massively

said and stressful for caregivers and family and this podcast with Michael is going to give you a

sense of what that's like. I definitely think it's going to be quite enriching for you to listen to.

But before we get into it, I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this episode of the show

and that is my friends at Perfect Keto. Just before recording this, I sampled the latest batch of

their salted caramel keto bars which I have to admit are quite delicious. They have 11 grams of

protein from a combination of organic almond butter and grass-fed collagen. They've got one

gram of sugar, no added sugar, and about nine grams of dietary fiber and 18 grams of ketogenic fat

from MCT Oil Powder which provides a very clean burning fuel source to the brain in the form of

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