Today we wanted to talk about a very important topic.

We think that this is probably the kind of topic that's been so confusing to so many.

And there's so many versions of this topic that it just has caused a great deal of noise.

And the topic is actually about cholesterol, which we think is incredibly important to know.

But the two of us have begun to think that a big driver, a major driver of dementia,

is the lipid pathway, the cholesterol pathway, probably disproportionately.

And it's true, definitely so for stroke.

Absolutely.

You would speak to that.

Yes.

So we wanted to start with some stories, some cases that are usually not spoken about

in clinical trials or in journals because they never come

to that point because it's not considered the disease yet, but it's, I think, ubiquitous.

And this is something that we have to speak about.

On my end, I'll start with an example.

I'm not going to name names for HIPAA purposes, but a 53-year-old lady and who was experiencing some memory issues.

In fact, for the most part, she wasn't aware of it herself,

but the family was becoming aware of it.

It was affecting their life. It was affecting

their relationships because with the memory problems comes frustrations without people knowing so.

And with the frustrations comes all these difficulties in social and family communication.

And the person actually attributes it to external variables,

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