I wanted to ask you first about cognitive decline.

And I feel like a lot of people, especially over the last few years, have a fear of

cognitive decline from foods they've eaten, from potential injections they've taken, or other

things they've, or medicines that maybe are hurting or helping.

So I wanted to talk about cognitive decline first and your thoughts about this.

I think there's a lot of fear out there about it also because people know people with cognitive

decline. You know, we people have relatives who've developed dementia. We see people whose

memories are failing. I know a lot of

people if they if they have memory lapses immediately begin to think am I getting Alzheimer's. You know,

there's just a lot of fear around that. Yeah. So what is the root cause of Alzheimer's? We don't know.

We don't know. I mean, there is a minority of cases are genetic or familial, but most of them aren't, and we really

don't know.

I have to say my gut feeling with a lot of neurodegenerative disease, certainly with Parkinson's

disease and ALS, I think these are environmentally caused mostly.

Really?

Now is that environment like what's in the air environment?

It's probably everything, but a big one is things like exposure to agrochemicals.

There's a higher incidence of Parkinson's and agricultural workers.

I think all the stuff we're reading about plastics.

I think it's good to be just cognizant of potential toxins in the environment.

Right.

But I will tell you that in terms of preventing cognitive decline, probably the two most

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