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Today we're putting the spotlight on our brains. As we age, certain behaviours often become more noticeable, misplacing keys, struggling to recall names, or forgetting why you walked into a room.

Most of us have likely seen this happen to someone close to us,

and may have even seen these patterns develop into more serious conditions like dementia.

But are these behaviours just an inevitable part of getting older?

Or is there something we can do to prevent them?

Dr. William Lee is here to outline the connection between our lifestyle and the health of our brain.

We start by getting some definitions straight. Will, what is dementia and is it the same as Alzheimer's disease?

You've just asked a huge question because dementia is one word that represents the end result of many different processes, problems that impact our brain.

And so it's sort of a final result of different types of disease states that can actually happen to us.

And people tend to underestimate how complicated and how different types of dementia actually exist. So you asked about Alzheimer's

disease. Well, you can call it Alzheimer's dementia. It's the type of dementia that we attribute to

Alzheimer's disease. And even Alzheimer's itself, we're beginning to realize there's different flavors

or different types of Alzheimer's disease, and it's not one-size

fits all. So, you know, we've kind of moved from a table of contents on dementia where we have

simple chapters of understanding the brain to really beginning to understand. This is a dictionary,

and there's a lot of different definitions that need to be precisely understood in order for us to be able to better prevent, better treat, and indeed better reverse the condition.

Okay, so we're sort of discovering it's a lot more complex than maybe, you know, many of us listening had understood in terms of it's not just one disease.

There's many different ways and underlying explanations for why this happens.

And if you're going to just sort of summarize, I guess, the symptoms that would distinguish

someone with dementia from someone who's just getting older, what are they?

You know, I think all of us inherently can

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