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Nov 2019
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Dr. Richard Isaacson, Director of the Al...

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Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College Dr. Richard Isaacson talks about why he began studying Alzheimer's (4:07), how it starts 20-30 years before symptoms appear (4:38), how many people have it and the early signs of it (6:06), the three stages of the disease (8:27), ABC's of Alzheimer's prevention management (10:51), the reason for the study (17:21) and why they wanted to look at sleep (18:19), the value of cost-effective, non-invasive monitoring (19:49), the study's hypothesis and methodology (23:10), conclusions based on the WHOOP data (29:56), implications for future research (34:29), his own personal learnings from wearing WHOOP (38:52), and tips for what we can all do to prevent Alzheimer's (43:05).  

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