Lifestyle interventions like managing poverty, childhood obesity, education level, smoking, and alcohol use can significantly reduce dementia risk.

“And you know, it's interesting that you say that. Um Jill Livingston and others um you know, they they have studied um sort of how lifestyle influences the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. And it's a dramatic component that you can influence um easier or not, right? I mean some of them are very hard to get out of but you know poverty is a risk of course um childhood obesity uh lower education um smoking excessive alcohol use um many of these things that we know you know they're good or bad if you have all these if you optimize everything your risk for dementia is much lower I mean there's now you know countless studies that that show that.”