As it go and family, welcome to the 80th episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovira Filmmaker, Health and Science Journalist,

and the author of The New York Times' best-selling book Genius Foods.

On this episode of the show, I am super excited to welcome my good friend and mentor,

Dr. Richard Isaacson, a neurologist and the director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic

at Wild Cornel Medicine and New York Presbyterian in New York City.

Over the course of the next hour and ten minutes,

we're going to discuss strategies for staving off Alzheimer's disease

and other forms of cognitive impairment.

What sets Dr. Isaacson apart, aside from the fact that he's one of the very few neurologists

who specializes in prevention, he's also in the trenches,

publishing scientifically rigorous studies that are showing us that our cognitive destiny

may be a choice that we make with our diets and lifestyles.

We're going to talk specifically about the results of his new study published last month

in Alzheimer's and dementia, the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association,

which found that a personalized intervention not only stopped cognitive decline in people

at risk for Alzheimer's disease, but actually increased their memory and thinking skills within

18 months. We discuss exercise, sleep, diet, and we also talk about the APOE4 allele,

which one and four people carry, imparting anywhere between a two and 14-fold increased risk

for developing Alzheimer's disease. But if you're not, Dr. Isaacson isn't afraid of it,

and neither should you be. Needless to say, I am incredibly passionate about this topic,

and I love Dr. Isaacson's work. And when I met him about eight years ago now,

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