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What if the choices you make today could protect your mind for decades to come?

On today's edition of Family Talk, we're bringing you part two of a conversation featuring

Dr. James Dobson and Dr. Richard Furman, a vascular surgeon with over 30 years of experience

and also the co-founder of World Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritans First.

I'm Roger Marsh, and on our last edition of Dr. James Dobson's family talk, Dr. Richard

Furman shared some eye-opening research showing that for many people, Alzheimer's is actually

preventable. On today's family talk program, he will join Dr. Dobson once again to dig into the details,

what to eat, what to avoid, and why the decisions you make at midlife could determine whether

you end up in the right group or the wrong one. That conversation is coming up right now on

today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's family talk.

Dr. Furman, I find your new, your latest book, Defeating Dementia.

What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia to be one of the most interesting books that's come along

in a long time. If our listeners are interested at all in general health and especially

avoiding the tragedy of dementia of any form, why would we not want to know how to do that?

But the point you were making yesterday is this is a disease that you can affect dramatically

and even gave percentages from recent research that proves that.

Repeat that for those that didn't hear the program yesterday.

Well, there's a lot that we can be doing to defeat, slow, stop Alzheimer's.

But the numbers that I like to think about is that if you're in the 55 to 60-year-old range,

a third of the time, a third of the people in that age group have that Alzheimer protein in their brain without any symptoms.

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