With me in studio, if you're watching on the stream, you recognize him, Max Lugavir.

He's a health and scientist to journalist, best-selling author, and the host of a podcast called The Genius Life,

and director of a brand new documentary called Little Empty Boxes.

Welcome back. Hey, welcome back.

Hey, how you doing?

It's great to be here.

Great.

Tell me about Little Empty Boxes.

Yeah, so Little Empty Boxes, it's the first ever documentary

capturing the science of dementia prevention, is a global health threat now.

55 million people globally suffer from dementia and so the documentary it focuses on my

mom which is my why the reason why I got into this field and it it basically we discuss the

science that is enabling us to procure better brain health years decades down the line

possibly because it's preventable.

Well, there is, there are estimates that at least 40% of cases are preventable

according to the latest Lancet Commission on dementia,

but I believe that the vast majority of Alzheimer's cases are and possibly even

Parkinson's disease cases are. For a layman like me could you tell me they didn't

see dementia and and Alzheimer's? Yeah well Alzheimer's is the most common

form of dementia so Alzheimer's disease affects, well Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia. So Alzheimer's disease

affects about 6 million people a little bit more than that in the US and numbers are expected

to explode in the coming years. But there are other forms of dementia. There's Louis body dementia,

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