Welcome to Wellness Unmask with Dr. Nicole Sapphire.

I'm your host, Board Certified Physician, Mom, and Forever Truthseeker.

Today I want to dive right into a very important topic that everyone is constantly asking me about.

And by the way, I'm always asking myself and my friends and my colleagues about it as well.

It's brain health.

At this point, everyone knows

someone who is living with dementia because it really is that prevalent, people all around us.

Now, there are many different types of dementias. We're not going to get into that. Alzheimer's being

the most common. When we talk about dementia, it's not one size fits all, not two presentations are exactly the

same. And in fact, sometimes people don't even realize that they have maybe some mild dementia.

They're just living life thinking maybe I have a little bit of brain fog. But let's dive right in.

Dementia is incredibly prevalent. About 55 million people worldwide are living with it. In the next 20 years, that number

is probably going to double. Now, the question is, is that number doubling because we have an

increased prevalence and incidence of dementia, meaning more people are being diagnosed with it,

and this should be raising red flags? Or is it the fact that we have an aging population? Well,

it's a really good question. If you really look at the numbers, it looks like actually our dementia

incidents over the last five to 10 years is slightly decreasing, meaning a smaller percentage

of the population is being diagnosed with dementia. However, we have more

cases of dementia, more prevalence of dementia, because we have an aging population. So take it

as what you will. For me, I would think that with our innovation, our technology, and everything

that we have today, that we should be seeing fewer cases of

dementia, statistically significant fewer, not just, you know, one to four percentage points.

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