Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. And in that vein, one thing that I don't feel like is being highlighted enough as an important physical and mental health tool is human connection. And the power of people coming together in community. Can you talk a little bit about that? Because if we look at the longest study ever done on happiness, it shows that when you've had good positive relationships over a long period of time, that is one of the greatest tools you can use for your overall happiness. Do we have the same thing with Alzheimer's and Dimension? Does it matter how we connect with others?
Speaker 1
So again, it's not just my opinion. It's been published by excellent epidemiologists, people who had social networks, people who are interacting. These people did better. They were at lower risk. Now again, it's not a cure by itself, but it definitely helps. And of course, you are stimulating new connections. You have to remember, go back to this is a network insufficiency. You've got this amazing network within your brain that is able to take experiences and build and maintain new interactions, new synapses, new connections, or activate ones that are there. So when you are not feeding that, when you're demanding too many insults, or when you are simply in a sedentary lifestyle, and by the way, depression is another part of this. This is something that of course increased with COVID-19, another unfortunate consequence of COVID-19. This is pulling you back. This is associated with more inflammation, with more cognitive problems. And I would add another thing, because this has come up recently with some of the patients. It was noted that a lot of these people will know that they have something that's very much like adult ADD. They just don't attend to things. They don't focus the way they did before. And therefore, they're not setting up memory storage the way it should be set up. So it's important when someone's having memory issues to determine, is this more about the maintenance of the memory? Is this more about the consolidation after they've learned something that remembering at the next day? Or is this more like ADD? They're just all over here and they do this for one minute and that for one. They can't really attend to anything because there are different ways to approach each of these.