Speaker 2
And if you decide to go down the path of HRT or BHRT, are you immune from having to make those seven lifestyle changes? Like does it lessen the intensity that you need to focus on your lifestyle?
Speaker 1
It improves things. So each of these, so what happens is imagine that you have a network. It's a little bit like thinking about a country. So what happened in early 2020, we all heard there was a new insult to our country. It turned out to be COVID-19. And so we were told shelter in place, socially distanced, don't go into work, pull things back. And of course, the country went into a recession. That's exactly what your brain is doing. It is experiencing these different insults. And dropping hormones is one of them. But it's also experiencing things from your oral microbiome. The neuropathologists have found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Oral organisms, things like P. Gingivalis. That's a big one. Candida, fungi, molds, yeast, things like this. All sorts of bacteria. And interestingly, the amyloid that we associate with Alzheimer's disease is actually an antimicrobial. And this was first described by Professor Robert Moyer and Professor Rudy Tansey from Harvard several years ago. And I think it was a wonderful find. This is showing us this amyloid is not there to give you Alzheimer's. It's there fighting these insults. And of course, other insults losing the oxygenation because of things like sleep apnea or upper airway resistance syndrome and things like that. So all of these things are critical.