The 2 Overlooked Ways to Prevent Cognitive Decline | Dr. Andrew Weil

0:02I wanted to ask you first about cognitive decline.

0:08And I feel like a lot of people, especially over the last few years, have a fear of cognitive decline from foods they've eaten, from potential injections they've taken, or other things they've, or medicines that maybe are hurting or helping.

0:23So I wanted to talk about cognitive decline first and your thoughts about this.

0:28I think there's a lot of fear out there about it also because people know people with cognitive decline.

0:32You know, we people have relatives who've developed dementia.

0:36We see people whose memories are failing.

0:38I know a lot of people, if they have memory lapses, immediately begin to think, am I getting Alzheimer's?

0:43You know, there's just a lot of fear around that.

0:45Yeah.

0:46So what is the root cause of Alzheimer's?

0:48We don't know.

0:49We don't know.

0:49I mean, there is a minority of cases are genetic or familial, but most of them aren't.

0:54And we really don't know.

0:56I have to say, my gut feeling with a lot of neurodegenerative disease, certainly with Parkinson's disease and ALS, I think these are environmentally caused mostly.