Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life. So on this podcast we're going to talk about something that I think is on everyone's

mind and that is brain health and And here's the good news.

For you folks who are worried about whether you carry the ApoE4 gene,

the Alzheimer's gene, it is not your fate

and I'm going to give you some tips on keeping that gene turned off.

So first question that everybody wants to know because it's in the news and I talk a lot about it the apoee 4 gene.

So the apoee gene makes you make a lipoprotein that carries cholesterol around your body.

There are different ones of these genes and different ones of these lipoproteins.

The one that gets everybody's attention is the apo-e4 gene. Now why it gets everybody's attention is about 30% of us

carry either a single copy of this four, you're called three fours, or a double copy of this four,

and you're called four fours.

About 25%, 28% of us carry 3.4, the other 2% carry 4. Now everybody goes, well that's called the Alzheimer's gene and it is because it's

the only recognized gene that correlates with an increased risk of developing

Alzheimer's dementia.

Now, I might add that Alzheimer's dementia

is different from other forms of dementia.

There's such a thing as vascular dementia

that I'll talk about as we go along.

OK, so what is the risk? So people who carry the single copy of the four have about a eight or actually

about a double the risk chance of developing Alzheimer's

then if you didn't have that.

The folks who carry the four four

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