# The Dementia Mistake Families Make Out of Love ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Max Lugavere - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGystmkKpU8 - **Дата:** 20.03.2026 - **Длительность:** 9:40 - **Просмотры:** 454 ## Описание 15 Daily Steps to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease PDF: https://bit.ly/3FcEAHw - Get my FREE eBook now! Watch the full AMA with Max here: https://youtu.be/hzkfFRev08Q Watch my new documentary Little Empty Boxes - http://littleemptyboxes.com Follow Max Lugavere: Website: http://thegeniuslife.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxlugavere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/maxlugavere ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGystmkKpU8) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) question from city sen. — Yeah. Um, how do you present like say you notice that in a family member, you make an appointment with a neurologist or a PCP, how do you best communicate what you've been seeing? Because it's a it's overwhelming when you see a family member that may be having issues. So, like how would you in like a concise way communicate to a neurologist? — Yeah. How would you communicate to a neurologist in a concise way concern about a loved one? Yeah, that was a question from City off camera. Um, yeah, that's a great question. It could be difficult. It could be scary, frustrating. It can be extremely vulnerable. Um, you don't want to act like you're shaming or insulting your loved one. Of course. Of course not. Uh I think it's important to bring notes in to kind of like jot down notes about the symptoms like to kind of like you know as you experience these foibless to write them down maybe in your notes app on your iPhone and then bring them in um you know and do your best to present them in a non-judgmental way like hey you know this is a this is something that's like we don't know if we should be concerned. We're not concerned maybe we should be. We don't know. Um, and to just kind of flag that to a neurologist to then maybe do some, you know, some follow-up testing. Um, I think that's crucial. Uh, but I think that the really important part is to not, you know, this could be embarrassing. This could be if presented the wrong way. It could be perceived as judgmental, as shaming. You just want to be really careful and I think lead with love. And I'm not saying this as a professional. a, you know, somebody who, you know, works with patients. I'm not, I'm not a medical doctor, but I am somebody who had a loved one with the condition and it could be really challenging and really difficult. And, um, in my mom's case, I had the unique experience of my mom, my mom was always aware of her cognitive decline. And I think that that's just where every case of dementia is different. You know, once you've seen one case of dementia, dementia. But um and it can be startling. It could be unsettling. It could be, you know, I think as a loved one with a family member with cognitive decline, there's the tendency to want to gaslight yourself because this is something that's typically I mean it's it can be something it can be really difficult to accept. Um so you just have to I think all that being said, it's not something to be brushed under the rug. So, you have to leave with lead with love and you have to make sure that you make that appointment. You have to bring them to see the neurologist not because you're shaming them, but because you love them. And I think that's really important. Um, and also there was something that I read about a couple years after my mom had passed and it made me think differently about how I had shown up for her and it was it basically it broached the concept of therapeutic fibbing. I know we're getting kind of off topic of the question, but um, no, no. It's this is important. Um the when somebody is struggling with cognitive decline, there's the tendency to want to correct them, to quote unquote teach them, to you know, help nudge them back onto the correct, you know, way of thinking or uh to lead the horse to water and to, you know, to help them arrive at what you think that their initial thought may have been. But therapeutic fibbing is actually that can be a stressor. Therapeutic fibbing on the other hand is a really compassionate way of just going along with what the person is, you know, is saying incorrect as it may be and having compassion for them because cognitive decline it's not something it's not their fault. So um so yeah, I hope that helps. Uh moving on. Do you have any daily habits to stay mentally sharp? Haley Valene asked that question. Um, so yeah, I mean I think I've already touched on a lot of this stuff, but I try I do my best to, you know, work out regularly, keep that fresh blood pumping up to, you know, up to my brain, which is really important to kind of keep track of how many hours I've spent sedentary, which as a writer, um, I'm prone to spending a lot of time sitting on my butt writing. um with my face immersed in screens, whether it's the little screen or the medium screen or the big screen. And I think it can take uh some effort these days to kind of push yourself away, but it's always worth the effort because just simple movements, non exercise physical activity can go a long way towards ### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGystmkKpU8&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 09:00) helping to oxygenate your brain to pump fresh blood and nutrients and oxygen, glucose up to, you know, up to your metabolically hungry neurons. Um, and so yeah, so I do what I can to, you know, get adequate movement in over the course of the day. I even recently, fairly recently, bought a treadmill, um, like to go underneath my desk, my standing desk, just so that even if I've got like a deadline and I'm hard at work on a writing project, um, I can get those steps in. Uh, and I do on my walking treadmill. It's great. It was like $200 to $300 on Amazon. So, that's really important. I guess another thing that I try to do, which I didn't mention earlier, is I try to get adequate sunlight in through my eyes um relatively soon after I wake up. I actually moved to a home that had better natural light in the main living areas because my prior house didn't have a lot of natural light and um I wanted to reduce the friction so that every morning when I wake up, I'm able to get natural light into my eyes. I even wear a sleep mask now. uh as a means of reducing the friction to getting in natural light into my eyes first thing in the morning. So rather than having to get up out of bed to raise my shades, I know, you know, we've maybe talked about it on the past like years ago on the podcast and wellness influencers are always talking about the value of blackout shades and the like, but I actually think it's kind of cool to not have any shades and to just wear a sleep mask and then to be able to from bed remove your sleep mask first thing upon waking and then allow the light from the bedroom to enter your eyes. It's a great way to make sure that first thing in the morning before anything else, you're anchoring your brain's circadian clock and light is the, you know, primary time setter that does that. So, I'm trying to get natural bright light into my eyes. Doesn't have to be, you know, I'm not looking straight into the sun. Doesn't even have to be a sunny day. It can be an overcast day, but the bright ambient light of day is going to be way brighter than any artificial light. It's going to be full spectrum. And um and that's really important for making sure that you stay mentally sharp. It's crucial to pump the brakes on melatonin production. A lot of people that wake up uh prematurely, like with an alarm clock, for example, their melatonin levels are still elevated. And melatonin is, you know, I mean, that's at odds. Having elevated melatonin levels is at odds with insulin sensit sensitivity. It's also at odds with being at your most cognitively sharp because I mean melatonin is typically secreted in the later hours um of the you know in the evening hours as a means of helping us wind down and becoming you know more uh creating an environment that's friendly um for sleep. So yeah that bright light is crucially important. Um you know I also drink coffee. I drink caffeine. Caffeine is great from the standpoint of staying mentally sharp. It's a stimulant obviously. Uh but there's really good data now linking caffeinated coffee to better health outcomes across myriad domains whether we're talking cardiovascular health, reduced risk for neurogenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, even multiple sclerosis. So yeah, I'm a big fan of coffee and um yeah, that's pretty much it. eating a nutrient-dense diet. I don't hyperfixate on glucose spikes. I know a lot of people make a big deal about glucose spikes. I don't really believe that they are as big of a problem that they're often made out to be. Uh but I do try to just stick primarily to whole foods. And in so doing that, you know, the food matrix does a lot of that grunt work for you in terms of making sure that you're not over responding to a carbohydrate-rich meal. when you've got fiber, when you've got water, when you've got fat, when you've got protein, um, blood glucose spikes are not something that you have to micromanage. On the other hand, if you're eating mainly processed, ultrarocessed foods and drinking sugary beverages and the like, your blood sugar is going to be a roller coaster over the course of the day, and that can impair subjective cognitive function. So, you just want to be kind of mindful of that. Hey, if you like that video, you need to check out this one here, and I'll see you there. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/18489*