Episode Transcript: #1870 - Max Lugavere
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What's up, Max? How are you?
What up? Thanks for having me.
Glad to meet you. Same.
I've enjoyed your content online, so it's exciting to meet you in person.
Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.
So you were telling me before we got rolling, I said save it.
Let's just talk about it.
What is this Alzheimer's thing that you're doing? What are you doing?
Yeah, so I've been deeply immersed in the Alzheimer's dementia prevention world for the past almost decade at this point.
I'm not a, just to lay it out up front, I'm not a medical doctor. I didn't take the academic route.
I started college sort of on a pre-med track, but what ended up happening was I ended up going into journalism straight out of college
and I ended up working for a TV network in the U.S. that was backed by Al Gore back in the day.
And so I got to hone my storytelling chops there, but I'd always been really passionate about health, nutrition, medicine, things like that.
But in 2011, my mother started to display the earliest symptoms of what would ultimately be diagnosed as a form of dementia called Lewy Body Dementia,
which is like a rare form of dementia.
Robin Williams had that.
Yeah. Terrible condition. It's described as feeling like you have both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease at the same time.