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This brain rot error is basically what you're doing is you're looking and scrolling at dumb content, right? Content that is not allowing you to think, and your brain, which we'll learn, is basically it uses the analogy use it or lose it. And if you don't provide it stimulus, right? Just like your muscles, you know, you go to the gym, you need to lift weights for a muscle to grow. If you don't do anything, the muscle becomes dormant and it wastes away. Your brain is no different. So when you are not using your brain effectively, you're not providing it the stimulus, what happens? Well, you end up with cognitive decline in the end because you're not training it to think, to critically analyze anymore.
If we don't use AI effectively and we're using it for this brain rot era and the more times that we're spending on social media scrolling this dumb content, we are leading ourselves towards mild cognitive impairment which is the pre-dementia state. And once we're in there, we can't get out of it and it's just a slippery road down to Alzheimer's disease.
Now to a new report that shows Alzheimer's is on the rise with nearly 7 million seniors in the US now living with the disease. We were talking about Alzheimer's and uh I've been looking for somebody to talk about Alzheimer's because that and cancer are pretty much my biggest fears in life. I think it's a 7 7 million Americans have Alzheimer's and by 60 it'll be almost 14 million.
We are seeing those Alzheimer's numbers go up and now the Alzheimer's Association releasing its new report shedding light on a real issue. Nearly 7 million people are living with the disease. That's 200,000 more than last year. And the number of deaths from Alzheimer's has more than doubled since the year 2000.
More. More. Yeah. It's going to triple by the year 2050.
Holy. So, currently the statistics are around 60 million people worldwide have that disease. So, it's going to triple by the year 2050. in a nationwide survey. Now, the Alzheimer's Association says 99% of those they questioned across the country said that brain health is as important as physical health.
When it actually accumulates in what we call plaques, these hard plaques, that's what causes neurodegeneration. If you look at a brain scan of an Alzheimer's disease patient, you can see their brain is shrinking or there's holes in their brain on neuroimaging because these plaques are getting in the way. They're stopping the brain the the the signals from cell to cell which causes the collapse of your entire network.
I just want everyone to know this is not a disease of old age.
What do you think of Neurolink? whoever's deciding to get elective brain surgery just for um Elon Musk. I mean, interesting character, it's scary. There's around 30 to 40 different genes involved in all of the dementias. There's only really three, right, that if you genetically get these from mom or dad, you will get Alzheimer's. You will get a form of dementia.
What is the regular risk? one out of do you know how many. If we have a copy of the apoE4 gene it just one copy right you could be E3 E4 if you have one copy it raises your risk of getting the disease by two to threefold if you receive the shingles vaccine after the age of 50 you lower your risk of all caused dementia and Alzheimer's disease by 50%.
Kidding. Turns turns out that those who maintained good quality relationships showed better signs of brain aging than those who don't.
I'd like to kind of start with with the Olympics and the accident and I would like to know what happened and how how that got you into this. He said, "We're going to get you on track for the 2009 Beijing World Championship Series." So, we were traveling up this bike lane and I looked behind and I saw a car. As we were getting into the bike lane, the driver who was 85 years old traveling around 120 km in an 80 km zone, he caught us and he was looking at us and he wasn't concentrating on where he was going. He actually followed us just by pure like I don't know, oh man, pure signal. And because I was on the back, he slammed me into the guard rail.
He had dementia, didn't he? Parkinson's is a man-made disease. Alzheimer's disease is a preventable disease. And in my opinion, it is also a man-made disease.