Why Aren’t We Talking About the Cognitive Health Crisis?

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

If you look at the latest stats, you might assume there’s no cognitive health crisis. The overall number of dementia cases are going up, but that’s because the aging population is growing. Older folks are living longer than ever before, so there are more people around who can develop dementia. Dementia and Alzheimer’s rates are dropping in the Western world. Politicians, those archetypical paragons of cognitive aptitude, are hanging around in office longer than ever. Technology, science, and other fields that require large amounts of cognitive ability are progressing.

But broad trends and large numbers are just statistics. However reassuring they are to public policy analysts, they mean nothing to the individual suffering from cognitive decline. They’re too abstract. Your grandpa no longer knowing who you are? That’s real. You, personally, don’t want to lose your cognitive abilities as you age. You, personally, don’t want to see the people you love get Alzheimer’s. Individual cases matter to those individuals and their loved ones. And it’s still happening more than it should.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson from Marksdailyapple.com.
0:05.0	Enjoy this audio narration of a recent Marksdailyapple.com post by Tina Lehman.
0:10.0	Subscribe to this podcast channel so you don't miss anything from the blog
0:13.0	and read my daily posts on Living Awesome and much more at Marksdailyapple.com.
0:23.1	Why aren't we talking about the cognitive health crisis?
0:27.5	If you look at the latest stats, you might assume there is no cognitive health crisis.
0:33.5	The overall number of dementia cases are going up, but that's because the aging population is
0:38.7	growing. Older folks are living longer than ever before, so there are more people around who
0:43.8	can develop dementia. Dementia and Alzheimer's rates are dropping in the Western world. Politicians,
0:51.0	those archetypal paragons of cognitive aptitude, are hanging around in office longer than ever.
0:57.5	Technology, science, and other fields that require large amounts of cognitive ability are progressing.
1:04.0	But broad trends and large numbers are just statistics.
1:08.3	However reassuring they are to public policy analysts, they mean nothing to the individual
1:13.4	suffering from cognitive decline. They're too abstract. Your grandpa no longer knowing who you are?
1:20.9	That's real. You personally don't want to lose your cognitive abilities as you age, you personally don't want to see the people
1:29.3	you love get Alzheimer's. Individual cases matter to those individuals and their loved ones,
1:35.2	and it's still happening more than it should. Maybe more than any other disease, severe cognitive
1:41.4	impairments have the potential to unravel families.
1:45.0	They're not one and done. They drag on.
1:48.0	They aren't lethal in the normal sense.
1:50.0	People with Alzheimer's can lead long lives,
1:53.0	the latter halves of which can get very difficult for everyone involved.
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