Dementia is preventable through lifestyle. Start now. , Max Lugavere, TEDx Venice Beach

NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical advice. We ve flagged this talk for falling outside TEDx s curatorial guidelines. This talk represents the speakers personal views and experiences with nutrition, mental health, and human biology. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: Health and science journalist Max Lugavere has always been close with his mom. When she began to show signs of dementia in her early fifties, it shook him to his core. Wasnt dementia an old persons disease And with drug trials having a near 100 failure rate, what was there to do In 2017, a leading Alzheimers organization recognized for the first time that one third of dementia cases may be preventable. And so Max decided to devote himself to figuring out how he and his peers could best avoid the disease. In this illuminating talk, Max discusses th