Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. Today we are going to be talking about a startling new study that was just released showing the rising risk of dementia.

It projects the number of dementia cases in the U.S. will double by 2060. I think this is probably a fear of most Americans is the idea that you forget who you are, that you're not capable

of functioning. I mean, we've been watching, you know, people questioning even the leader of

the country right now. And I think mostly because the idea is just very terrifying to have this

happen. Now more than one million Americans are predicted to develop this condition every year.

It's estimated that there will be 12 million Americans living with dementia by 2060.

So today I am joined by one of the leaders of the study, Dr. Joseph Kourish, who is the founding

director of the Optimal Aging Institute at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine

and Arjun Muzer. He is a cognitive neurologist and dementia specialist in leads a laboratory

for early Alzheimer's disease symptoms at NYU. Thank you both for joining me.

Thank you for having us. Yeah, absolutely. So like I said, I think that

the majority of Americans hear this. And it's one of those things that you're scared of.

You've, all of us, I think everybody has experienced one grandparent or a parent that has gone

through something like this. And I think it's hard. It's really hard to be the person watching,

and it's very hard to be the person going through it. I remember with my own grandparents,

my grandfather started to struggle with this. And for my grandmother, it was so challenging

to see that decline. So when we see a study like this, this is sort of scary. Dr. Koresh, tell us about it a little bit.

Yeah. So we thought it was important to take a lifelong perspective. Because as you say,

we all kind of know that we're in a very long game for this. So we had the advantage of having

a study that followed 15,000 people since the

1980s, so for four decades. We had the advantage that the study really went rigorously in

determining who got dementia, and we can talk about that. And we asked the question, for someone

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