All right, welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 599 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

In today's podcast, we're going to be going over a topic I like to call dementia, right?

This is going to be the Clutch Dementia podcast. This podcast is super high yield.

You're going to see the stuff tested on your exams. Step one, step two, step three,

level one, level two, level three. So you might as well just pay attention and get the points down.

All right. Let's jump right into it. So what if they give you a question about an individual,

you know, that comes to visit the physician for his own physical.

And you're told that this individual is asking about, you know, things he can do.

You know, they will usually tell you that, give you a big thing about a big family history

of dementia or cognitive impairment.

And then they'll ask you which of the following interventions will most likely reduce the patient's risk of developing a dementia or cognitive impairment.

Basically on your exams, when you see questions like that, the smart play is to think of answers that involve controlling metabolic risk factors, right?

So, you know, things like diabetes, high blood pressure, you know, hyperlipidemia, exercising.

Exercising is a big one they love on the USMLEs.

It certainly reduces a person's risk of cognitive decline, you know, eating a healthy diet.

Again, those are the only things that really reduce your risk of developing cognitive impairment.

All right.

Especially exercise.

Exercise is a big one to know for the USMLEs.

But, you know, I'm sure many of you have probably heard of the term type 3 diabetes

with Alzheimer's, right?

Having insulin resistance in the brain has a very strong association

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