Make a list of all the things that I don't want to have to hit me and Alzheimer's

diseases at the top of that list because when you get it you lose everybody and

everything that ever mattered to you. But the good news is there's a lot that we

can do but there's a lot of kind of noise in the media and it's a little bit

hard to separate that option. That's what we'll do today.

Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi,

I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ

with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. Hi to everyone listening

in Littleton, Colorado, Hartford, Vermont and to loose France. Wherever you are we appreciate

you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode 80 of season 5,

number 379 overall. And we begin today with a kind of scary stat. Dimension cases are

expected to triple over the next 30 years and once they do every 33 seconds someone here in

the US will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. So what that does is really put us behind

the eight ball for our health and it brings an even greater urgency to finding a way to slow

down what has become a runaway train. But one of the best ways that we know how to apply the

brakes is through what experts call modifiable risk factors. Those are things that you have control

over, things that you can modify right now in your life to reduce your risk. And this entire

conversation bubbled back up to the surface recently after a study dropped that is being sadly

misinterpreted. And because of that there could be catastrophic consequences for your cognitive

ability. So the study that we're talking about focuses on diet and dementia and was published

in the journal neurology. And the headlines surrounding this research have been splashed all

over the place. Many of them reading diet doesn't matter. And that insinuates that when it comes to

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