In this engaging episode of ‘A Guy’s Perspective,’ the hosts delve into the challenging topic of dementia, sharing personal stories and expert insights. As they navigate through the complexities of the condition, they explore the emotional and psychological impacts on both sufferers and their loved ones. From discussing early signs of dementia to addressing misconceptions, the conversation provides a comprehensive look into what it means to deal with this disease. Throughout the episode, hosts share both personal anecdotes and factual information, creating a balanced narrative that educates and moves listeners. Whether it’s discussing the effects of dementia on personality
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I can’t hide myself. I don’t expect you to understand. I just hope I can explain what it’s like to be a man.
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Welcome to A Guy’s Perspective, where they discuss real life topics that men today are dealing with, whether married, single parent, or just single. We invite you to call into this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
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How’s everybody doing today? This is KLZ 560 AM. We’re on radio every Saturday from 2 to 3 and you can always reach the guys and talk to us and let’s just go around the room and introduce ourselves. I’m Brock. This is Heath Hine, the actor in Colorado.
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Reno, the local business owner.
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And we just want to remind everybody about our book that’s coming out next year. We’ll let everybody know when it’s actually getting released. It’s being written right now. Have you guys finished writing part of your book? I’m only a few pages in. A few pages in. What about you?
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Not so much.
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I’ve completely finished my portion of it.
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How many pages is that? How many words?
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Um, I’ve written, I wrote 3,800 and something words. Nice job. Nice job. Um, and it came out to, for me, cause I figured we were doing five pages each. Mine’s came out to exactly five, like five and a half pages.
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Okay.
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So, so, you know, you figure if you do five, you do five, um, 25 pages, five times five.
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Yeah.
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25, and then we may do something on the end of it. I mean, it’s going to be a short book for our first book, but that’s cool, though.
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Yeah, I think it’s going to be pretty exciting.
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Yeah, I’m super excited. And we have already talked to Barnes & Noble. They said they will read over it, and they’re going to give us a spot when we’re done. So I think we’re all set, and we’ll do it online. People will be able to buy online. So I know we’re just talking about it, people, just trying to make people aware. We also want to say… Hope everybody has a happy New Year’s and a Merry Christmas. Let’s get into it. We’re going to talk about dementia. And the reason we’re doing this is because a gentleman sent us money for the show, and we want to thank everybody that gives to The Guy’s Perspective. If you go to our website, theguysperspective5 at gmail.com, you can always email us and go to our website and send us money. If you believe in our show and you want to help us, It propels us forward. It allows us to be able to do what we’re doing for men. We’re a men’s show. We’re here to try to help men, especially men that have been incarcerated, single dads, men who are trying to get a job and get on their feet from divorce or just life situations. We’re here for you men, and we really appreciate when you all chime in every week. So let’s talk about dementia. What do you guys know about it?
SPEAKER 05 :
um not much as um that’s a whole profession but my uh my dad is showing signs of dementia so this is an interesting topic how do you know your dad’s showing signs of it like like so there’s things like um My dad is very independent and he, he’ll, he’ll just get up and go, go to the store, go to, you know, wherever. And he got lost going to the store. He got lost going to one of his doctor’s appointments. And he also got lost coming to my house and is, is not like him. You’ll sit down and have a conversation with them. And So you’re sitting on the couch, hanging out, and he’ll have a conversation. He’ll have the same conversation three or four times.
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Wow.
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He’ll start the conversation the exact same way, ask you the exact same questions. So there is no… He has not been diagnosed. He doesn’t seem to want to get tested. And… Like he won’t eat at times. So it is something that’s very concerning. And it’s something that I am looking forward to researching.
SPEAKER 12 :
His dementia, because it’s past like a mental illness, right? Like I think you in the last episode said it’s like a deterioration or a dying of the brain or something like that.
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It’s also been called diabetes of the brain.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really? Yeah. Huh? It’s, it’s, it’s interesting that we’re talking about this because when I was younger, my mom used to, um, most people don’t know this, but my mom was like a diehard, like go to nursing homes. And my mom was type of lady that played the accordion. Like, you know, who plays the accordion now, unless you’re in like a marache band or something like that you know what i’m saying i mean but she’s up there with her accordion you know like yeah you know you’d have to know what an accordion is i mean i can describe it it’s it’s a weird instrument but she loved to play it yeah and so she would go to nursing homes and When I was younger, I used to hate my mom would take me out. She’s like, come with me to the nursing home. It’ll cheer some people up. Like, so I’d go one week, come back, go the next week. And you know, the lady she’s playing the accordion to couldn’t even remember who I was after holding the conversation with me for like, I don’t know, a whole hour as my mom’s playing on this accordion thing. Like, You know what I’m saying? So I feel bad because from what I understand, is Alzheimer’s a part of dementia or it falls under that umbrella of it?
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Yeah, it’s under the umbrella of as is. So there’s dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease. A lot of these all fall under dementia. Gotcha. But it is. It’s a deterioration of the brain, the dying of the brain. And funny enough, not funny enough, but the thing is the things that people actually begin to forget, but they sometimes hold the cognitive ability to still dance and sing. Some of these things that are actually right-brained rather than left-brained.
SPEAKER 12 :
So it affects a hemisphere of your brain? It doesn’t affect the whole thing?
SPEAKER 04 :
Left, left.
SPEAKER 12 :
It affects the left part, really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s interesting.
SPEAKER 12 :
That is very interesting. I would have thought it would affect everything, you know? So another thing that I kind of saw online is that… There’s preventive measures somebody can take when it comes to dementia. Like if you catch it early enough, then they can help treat it. I don’t know if they can completely all the way treat it, but they can help diagnose it.
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Yeah, I forgot the name of the drug that one could take. If they’re honest with themselves when they talk with their doctors and when they talk with their family members about possibly having dementia and when they get diagnosed with it, there is drug that they can take. In addition to that, I think, I’m not positive, but I do think that, you know, like a body at rest stays at rest, a body in motion stays in motion. I think that a mind that is used and there’s like games and all of these things that can help cognitive abilities. But again, I’m speaking out of my hiney.
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No, another thing I read is I read that Because Alzheimer’s and all that is under that umbrella. I read that somewhere. I can’t remember where I read it, but that a person who reads often in exercising their brain, like you said, exercises, it helps to combat that stuff.
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Puzzles.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. Puzzles. Puzzles, reading. I would even imagine what you put into your body that affects your brain probably helps you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, one of the things that I, yeah, obviously diet and exercise, right? That affects kind of everything. But there’s also a, there’s early onset dementia, which it’s no longer called that. I think it’s now called young dementia. People as young as 25 years old can begin to show signs of dementia. And it’s something that is deteriorating. In fact, what I saw also was that in people with Down syndrome having to do with the extra chromosome, it’s something. Extra chromosome? Or is it extra chromosome? What is Down syndrome, extra chromosome? I think it’s an extra chromosome, isn’t it? I don’t know, though. But with that, what happens is it attacks that. And what I read, anyway, was that people with Down syndrome, they weren’t able to live so long as they are now, 35, 45, and that deterioration of the brain because dementia is something that comes with autism. I mean, people, please.
SPEAKER 05 :
You said dementia comes with autism.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because of something like the, I forget what it is. It’s something that attaches to that chromosome. Wow. I mean, again, it’s just, guys, it’s some real quick research that I was trying to do to prepare for this. And I did, with Michael Hand’s book, I did read through probably the first four chapters of And there were a lot of examples of couples. And I’m not sure if the examples are all from his experience and he’s using alias or if these were true to life examples of people living with spouse with dementia and how difficult it is to overcome and or with a parent with dementia and how difficult it is.
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It’s a sad situation either way. I mean, could you imagine having somebody that you care about, somebody that you love, and all of a sudden they can’t remember who you are? Like, let’s say they get such a severe Alzheimer’s or something happens to their body in such a tragic way that… that they can no longer function the way they used to function, they can’t remember things the way they used to remember, that would be heart-wrenching. And it would take a strong person, you know what I’m saying, to help your significant other through all those things or the people that you love.
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One of the things, I mean, I know you guys are looking up some things, and this is just a theory because I haven’t really researched upon it, but there is the predisposition of an individual. So if you are a person who is kind of hate-filled and judgmental, but on your surface you’re kind of like happy and jovial and this is your front, right? Well, those inhibitions that you have that you have control over, you no longer have control over. So that person becomes kind of mean and angry in their dementia. Whereas there are some people who slip into pleasant dementia, which I believe they go into pleasant dementia because their their heart was really like, you know, good, kind people. But their front was kind of hard and harsh.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because, and I take back that I’ve never seen anybody with dementia that I knew personally. Because, Arino, maybe you know better than me, but remember the gentleman who came to our church, Keith? Yeah. He had a form of dementia, didn’t he? Or a form of Alzheimer’s of some sort? I want to say pastor was saying at one time.
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I can’t remember which one.
SPEAKER 12 :
I can’t remember either.
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But he had gotten lost driving home.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Right. And so it really makes you wonder, like.
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Like, has he been found? No, no, no.
SPEAKER 12 :
He’s passed away since then. But but but he had he had a form of it. And so he stopped going to church because he couldn’t even find his way to the church because he kept getting lost.
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And Rod Smith had given him a ride home. Right. Drove him home. Right. At one point to make sure he got there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, and so I think as it affects your brain, and not only does it affect your brain, but like you said, it’s going to affect your personality.
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Personality, and so in Michael Hand’s book, one of the things that he had mentioned is obviously there’s the drug that you take, but then in conjunction with that is like if you have a nightcap or alcohol or something, how that can throw you off because we’re talking about chemical imbalance, right? And then there are things like the reaction doesn’t suit the thing. So he used an example of the wife who had dementia. Again, I don’t know if this is his wife or if this is an example, but had dementia and she no longer wanted to go to church. Why didn’t she want to go to church? Well, it was because she couldn’t remember where to find the song in the hymns to sing along. So you see how minute the thing is, but how grandiose it becomes so that she just doesn’t want to go to church. And then it makes a—you see what I’m saying?
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So I guess my question would be is— The forgetfulness hurts. Yes, it would hurt. But if a person is dealing with dementia for X amount of years, do they just eventually pass away? Does their brain just shut down completely?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is that what happens?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Wow. It’s the dying of the brain. So their brain just completely just gives out eventually, huh? You know how a heart has heart failure or something, plaque buildup and everything? That’s like, yeah. Or someone just age takes them. Wow.
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That’s a Reno.
SPEAKER 05 :
Did you know there’s over 100 types of dementia?
SPEAKER 12 :
There is? God, I had no idea that dementia was that broad.
SPEAKER 05 :
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
What would be the next? Let’s see. Other forms are. Frontal temporal dementia.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was seeing that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Lewy body dementia. Vascular dementia. Oh, my God. And mixed dementia.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s crazy. So if a person, I guess what we need to know is if a person… feels like their significant other is is having a form of dementia what steps do you take to get them help because i mean i would imagine it’s like a stroke like you need to be quick on it so dementia is not a normal part of aging it’s not it’s not a normal part of aging
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. Wow. What are the cause? I mean, we know that we’re kind of talking about it.
SPEAKER 05 :
There’s a lot of stuff that I need to read up on and research.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re asking a good point. I’m going to look it up. What causes dementia? Because that, I guess, in order for a person to understand, because it’s saying right here, dementia comes with memory loss. Confusion with time and place, meaning like you forget where you’re at. How’d you get there? Difficulty with familiar tasks, maybe something you’ve done every day. For example, maybe you, for the last 30 years, and there are people who have done this, they’re so programmed, they put their keys in a particular spot so they don’t ever lose them. Now all of a sudden you, even though you did that for the last 20 years, now all of a sudden you stop doing it and you forget what you’re doing. Yeah, it’s not applicable. Yeah, exactly. And so then there’s also language struggles. Like all I guess that would be like you can’t articulate the right words. You can’t hold a conversation like like we’re having right here. There would be. You know, maybe stutters or pauses, I would imagine, in somebody who is dealing with dementia. I would imagine that.
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Do you know how many people have, I don’t know if it’s actual statistics, but by the age of 85, I think it is, 50%. Really? That high? Yeah. 50%? Based on some research that I had done, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Whoa. So this is saying that there’s still a lot to learn about dementia. Okay. And the risks, the risk factor, the list of risk factors is so long. So they’re still studying to find out what causes it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, really? So there’s not one specific thing that causes dementia, huh?
SPEAKER 05 :
They’re saying it’s a list so long. You know, it’s a long list.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, okay. So looking at what I’m seeing, it’s biological triggers. The physical cause of dementia is the death of the nerve cells and the loss of their connections. This is usually caused by buildup of specific abnormal proteins.
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Those are the ones that attach to the extra chromosome for Down syndrome.
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Yeah, I’m looking at it right now. In Alzheimer, these proteins form plaques outside of cells. It tangles the insides of them and effectively chokes the neurons until they die.
SPEAKER 05 :
Disrupts the cell function.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, so basically the cell isn’t getting, it’s a plaque buildup, almost like something on a person’s teeth, I guess. But if you look at your neurons, there ain’t no way to clean that stuff off.
SPEAKER 04 :
The one that is just coming to my recollection again, the one that Reno was talking about, the prefrontal or the frontal, that one I think has to do with blood flow and blood restriction of one’s heart. and it reaching the brain and stuff. And it was thought that you could actually do like angioplasty or through the arteries to clean them out of plaque and you would just automatically get better blood flow. But that’s not the case.
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So here’s something interesting.
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Okay.
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Two-thirds of U.S. adults who have Alzheimer’s are women.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really? Two-thirds. Two-thirds? God, man, that is high. Think about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
They’re saying part of the reason is because women live longer than men.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, really? Well, I mean, that’s probably a true statement, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, my insurance reflects that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because if you think about guys, we’re out doing some dumb stuff. You know what I’m saying? Like, you know, they’re trying to like, for example, and I don’t know how real it is, but I saw that video of the kid who was. in the caribbean someplace on the cruise ship and he straight jumped overboard and like in shark infested waters in like the middle of the night yeah and that all the kids had their cell phones so you seen them for a split second current must have took them and they never found them again like What in the world were you thinking?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, make a little bit of a joke here, but we all seen Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, for sure. And Kate Winslet. I mean, what happened? There was no room for him on the door, so he had to die earlier. And she lived to be like 85 to throw that heart of diamond into the sea.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m telling you, that’s the reason I hate that show, man. There’s some jacked up stuff on that show. Okay, Reno, then I’ll get back to you.
SPEAKER 05 :
That show’s jacked up, man. So… Dementia, according to age, the older you are, the higher the risk of Alzheimer’s, especially after age 65. About 5% of people 65 to 74 have the disease. And it’s slightly more for 13% of people 75 to 84. And a third of people 85 and older have Alzheimer’s. God, that is wild to think about that. One-third. One-third. of 85 or older have Alzheimer’s.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s crazy, dude.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which is Alzheimer’s is only one of the hundreds in dementia.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. That’s just one.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. That’s just one of the dementia. Like you guys said, Alzheimer’s under that umbrella of it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Alzheimer’s is part of dementia. Dementia is like the broad umbrella.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Kind of like when you say cancer, cancer is the umbrella for all the other cancers that are there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. What type of cancer?
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. For what type of cancer it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
So Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, is a type of dementia. That’s deep, dude. I mean, overall, think of how sad that is for your significant other.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and it’s kind of hopefully eye-opening for us because I know, Reno, you’re dealing with your dad, and it’s not even been diagnosed. But it’s important for us to be at this point in our life where we can begin to future-proof for ourselves and our others. You know what I mean?
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How do you future-proof for dementia? Yeah.
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I think it starts with knowledge of. When we increase our knowledge of, then we can make better, more informed decisions.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, because doesn’t the Bible even say without knowledge or my people perish?
SPEAKER 04 :
For lack of knowledge, my people perish.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, okay, so let me ask you guys this because I generally live under a heavy amount of stress, like which is not good for you. Oh, that probably causes dementia. Well, I was going to ask that. I wonder if stress buildup in your life doesn’t cause a form of dementia. I mean, you know what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 04 :
Always living in fight or flight mode is definitely detrimental to one’s body. Not helpful. It doesn’t build you up.
SPEAKER 12 :
It doesn’t. And what you put in your body is detrimental, too. And people, listen, we’ll talk about this more on the other side, y’all. We’ll be back in two minutes.
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I can’t hide myself. I don’t expect you to understand. I just hope I can explain what it’s like to be a man.
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Welcome to A Guy’s Perspective, where they discuss real-life topics that men today are dealing with, whether married, single parent, or just single. We invite you to call into this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
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How’s everybody doing? This is the second part of The Guy’s Perspective. Every Saturday you can listen to us from 2 to 3. So let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves again. I’m Brock.
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Wait, who am I? No, I am Heath Hine, the actor.
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Reno, the local business owner.
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And we want to say hope everybody had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’s. And Brian and Andre couldn’t be in studio with us today. But so we’re talking about dementia and everything that that.
SPEAKER 04 :
i guess is under the umbrella of dementia because like you guys were saying when you say dementia there’s a hundred different things that fall underneath it yeah one of the one of the things i want to say um from reading michael’s book um and again thank you michael so much for yes thank you a contributor to our show um we appreciate you and uh actually this show is pretty much for you man yeah it’s for you and about you and about your book and people that are dealing with it With dementia, one of the things that he mentioned in his book was, and I’ve seen this prevalent in dementia and dealing with it, is if you believe that your loved one, spouse or parent or sibling is going through dementia, what you need to do is you need to go to the doctors with them. You need to get in the room with them because they will tend to, the person with dementia or onset dementia, will tend to lie, not blatantly, but they’ll lie. Doc will say, hey, how’s your memory doing? They’ll say, oh, it’s pretty good. And then they move on to the next thing, check the heart and everything like this. But if you’re present with them and they run a thorough test of asking questions, you can kind of be present to tell the doc, no, that’s not correct. She’s been forgetting her keys. No, she’s been forgetting how to get to my house, on and on.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, let me ask you this. Do you think that… Do you think they do that intentionally because they know something’s wrong and they just don’t want people to realize the severity? Yeah, exactly. Because, you know, as human beings, we tend to cover things up. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I don’t. I don’t think so. And I’m referring to my dad. Okay. He doesn’t know when he repeats himself. He doesn’t know when he has that same conversation. So to him, it’s nothing to cover up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
So he doesn’t, like when he gets lost.
SPEAKER 04 :
Deniable plausibility.
SPEAKER 05 :
He finds his way home. But he got lost coming to my house. And he described where he was at, and I shot down the street, and I caught up with him. Wow. And he followed me to my house, but he was on his way back home. So he could find his way back home, but he gets lost going other places. So with him, it’s not – him denying it, he doesn’t realize it. He’s not realizing that he’s repeating himself or, you know, he gets frustrated like, I just can’t find it. I’m going back home.
SPEAKER 04 :
For sake of backlash on this, guys, I want to say that, like, I know I might get some heat or flack for this, but what about, like, some people who are, like, under the influence of any drug or alcohol and they don’t remember what happened? So they have plausible deniability of the things that transpired just as the gaps in the mind and the memory of people who have Alzheimer’s. It’s like, you know what I’m saying, is…
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, what I think what I think is interesting about that is while you were talking, I looked up things that like perpetuate or can you help like combat dementia or. And so what it’s saying, at least right here, it says, while there is currently no way to stop dementia with 100 percent certainty. The scientific landscape in 2025 has changed so much that there’s certain things you can do to help you to… Stave off. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Kind of stop it or slow it down. And one is to manage your blood pressure. I guess I didn’t realize high blood pressure is that crucial for the success of your brain and your body because it says right here, what is good for your heart is good for your brain. So, okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
So one of the, one of the, I’m going down the list of types of dementia and one of them is vascular. I saw that too. Dementia, which, you know, goes, that’s blood flow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, that’s blood flow.
SPEAKER 05 :
So that makes sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
I guess I just didn’t, didn’t realize that high blood pressure is, plays that crucial or that pivotal of a point of your brain. But I guess it makes sense that what your heart is doing, your brain would follow.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, absolutely. Yeah, blood is the life of our whole body.
SPEAKER 12 :
Definitely the life of the brain. Yeah, that’s deep.
SPEAKER 04 :
And just because the veins are tinier in the brain don’t make them any less significant.
SPEAKER 12 :
Another thing it was saying is physical activity, aim for about 150 minutes of moderate or intense exercise.
SPEAKER 04 :
What, a day?
SPEAKER 12 :
uh well 150 minutes every day or or two or three times a week it’s really not that hard to do but i mean if you knew it was going to prolong your life another 15 years they’re probably not a bad thing stay active you know i mean if you think about it when i’m the more cardio i do the better i sleep that’s true have you ever got runner’s high before
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, that’s intense, dude. That is a real thing. When we were running our Spartan races, dude, it happened to me every single race, dude. Like, it’s intense. You’re running so much, you’re so fatigued that it’s like you’re- Is it a hallucination?
SPEAKER 05 :
No. No, no, no, no, no. So when I was running the Spartan race- it was like you get into a zone. You ever play basketball and you’re just in a zone and everything, it’s like you’re looking in a different hue and you can’t miss a shot. It’s like you get like that running and it’s just like your tiredness doesn’t matter and you just go.
SPEAKER 12 :
And what’s amazing about that, because I ended up looking that up years ago because I couldn’t figure out what my brain was doing in the Spartan Race. And they said, yeah, they said it’s almost like… It’s prehistoric. Your brain reverts back to the prehistoric man when all they did was run after food, that they would be so tired, but they knew if they didn’t catch that meal that they would starve. So they would go and go and go. And so that, I think, is what was happening to us. Our brain was shifting, saying, even though I’m tired, I’m going to keep going.
SPEAKER 04 :
Overdrive, hyperdrive, sixth gear.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dude, it’s real. Sixth gear. And I talked to people about that. There were people that actually told me it’s not real, and it’s real.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ve never had it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, if you – We should do another one. Yes, you run 15 miles because that Spartan race was like 14 miles. You run 14 miles straight, it clicks, dude.
SPEAKER 05 :
So listen, when we did those back-to-back, and we did the one on Saturday – Oh, man. When I started running on Sunday, my soreness went away, and it was like I was unstoppable again.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. This dude took off running, right? Because, okay, think about this. We did – it was like an 18-mile race or something. We did the day before. It took hours.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m talking we were going up mountains, dude. We’re jogging up mountains.
SPEAKER 05 :
Obstacles.
SPEAKER 12 :
Obstacles all. We come back down. We turn around. The next day – What was that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Getting a collar. No, that’s not a collar. No. It’s not for us. No, it’s not for us. We thought we were getting a collar, and we’re on it. This is a prerecorded show, people.
SPEAKER 11 :
We’re sitting there, and we’re running, right? The next morning, I was so sore. I got up. I started running. You took off in front of everybody for the last three and a half miles. I’m chasing this dude. I come to the last obstacle. I jump over. I get the biggest cramp. But I had runners high by then. I just ran straight through it, dude. It was crazy, dude. I don’t understand how my body did it, dude.
SPEAKER 04 :
Look how one aspect of the blood, like, put you in hyperdrive and the other was trying to slow you down simultaneously.
SPEAKER 05 :
So maybe that’s what we need to be doing to combat.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
A future of dementia is getting our blood to flow. I mean, I don’t know, but it seems like it makes sense if our blood is flowing like that and we’re active, then you have more blood flowing through every part of your body. Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow, that is crazy. Because think about it. If you look at America, the obesity level is at an all-time high. Because it’s easy. It’s easy in the morning to get up and take the drive-thru for Starbucks. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I got into a period of time where I didn’t work out. I looked at myself in the mirror and I’m not big, you know. When I worked out I was a lot, or when I worked out with heavy weights I was bigger. But I looked at my side view in the mirror, my gut, And I said, I have to change this. Or you notice as you get older, if you’re inactive, you start to atrophy as you live.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s true.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I started this workout and this diet. I dropped 15 pounds because I wanted to drop the fat. Not that I needed to drop 15 pounds. But when I started working out again… And the difference it made me feel, not just because of the way I looked in the mirror, but the activity. Really? The activity, it just makes so much of a difference on my mood, everything.
SPEAKER 04 :
This is turning into be a great, what is it, auld lang syne, New Year’s episode. Oh yeah, that’s good.
SPEAKER 05 :
To have a resolution. I never thought about that because I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. To me, I make choices.
SPEAKER 04 :
Make the choices.
SPEAKER 05 :
So a New Year’s resolution ends. A choice, you make a choice to create a habit and you keep doing it and you don’t stop. So I just wanted to create like a life hack to where I’m creating a habit of working out so it becomes part of what I do every day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is that still prominent and prevalent in your life right now? You’re quite active?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, not as active because I’ve been in and out of town and, you know, the holidays.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is amazing that I came across, too. It says you need social connections to help combat dementia. And what it says is chronic isolation, people who isolate themselves. is as damaging to the brain as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Regular, meaningful conversations keeps the brain’s neural pathways active. So it’s saying you need to have good, wholesome communication, almost like iron sharpens iron in our conversations. I never thought about people that isolate themselves. is damaging their brains. I didn’t think about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
It makes sense because when you’re not having conversations, there’s not as much brain activity. Right, not as much brain activity is what it’s saying. It makes sense because you’re having a conversation that makes you think. That’s why I started doing MMA to keep my mind going because you have to think about the moves that you do and you have to keep other people safe and yourself safe. So you have to use thought and then you have to remember So it’s like mahjong or something.
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you guys ever remember as a kid in school, like, think back to, like, sixth, seventh, eighth grade, your teachers used to tell you read out loud because if you hear yourself, it’s like your brain is recognizing and remembering in a different way. I wonder if that’s actually true.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would have to say yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
I would have to say yes also.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m not an expert, but it makes sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, because I read all the time, and it seems like it’s different when I read out loud versus read to myself.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And it is, I like to do audio books. Yes. But I receive different than me actually sitting and reading the words than it being read to me.
SPEAKER 04 :
And then the final key is implementing that which you’ve learned through conversation with others.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that’s the key. I do have to get back into Taekwondo. I’ve been out, obviously, because of building the house and everything. I’m getting back into Taekwondo for the start of the year. So I know that it’s necessary for us to have mind, body, spirit. These things need to be running full steam ahead, and all of them are complementary to one another. And so I’m just thrilled to get started with that again and learn this new thing about dementia, Alzheimer’s, and all of these things.
SPEAKER 12 :
Another thing I didn’t know about, this is deep, dude, to help protect yourself from it, is getting good sleep. It says during deep sleep, the brain uses a garbage disposal system to wash away toxic proteins that cause Alzheimer. Aim for seven to nine hours of good sleep each night and it’ll help protect your brain. Dude, but think of how crucial sleep is to like body development for athletes. Like they sleep a lot so that they’re- Recovery, recovery. Yes, recovery for your mind and your body.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I guess it makes sense that sleep is- And that’s when you’re- Actually doing the most work. When you’re getting sleep after you work out, that’s when your muscles recover? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because this is crazy. I’m going to tell you guys, like, whenever I’m under heavy stress, I have nightmares, bad nightmares. And I know some people will be like, oh, man, that’s spiritual this and that. Well, I come to find out it’s not because I kind of did some like self-research on myself. Like I’ve noticed that when I’m dealing with finals and dealing with work and just dealing with life, like I’m in financial situations, I’ll start to have nightmares. But if I’m not dealing with any of that.
SPEAKER 04 :
My sleep is smooth sailing. Because all of that stuff pours over into your subconscious. That’s true.
SPEAKER 05 :
Some people think dreams are spiritual. Not every dream is spiritual.
SPEAKER 12 :
That is right. Not every dream is spiritual.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you watch a movie… Go to sleep and you have a crazy dream.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s probably the movie you just watched.
SPEAKER 12 :
For sure. If I watch a horror movie, I have horror dreams, dude. It’s just the way my body works. I don’t know why it does. It just does.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’s the food you eat. It’s the pizza that gives you indigestion and wrecks your sleep.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it’s super amazing that there are certain things that you can do to protect yourself. Another thing it says, limit your alcohol intake. People that drink and smoke every single day are more susceptible to these things. I didn’t know that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’ve never smoked.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’ve never smoked.
SPEAKER 05 :
I tried it when I was 13, and that cured me.
SPEAKER 12 :
Dude, do you guys remember the first time? Yes, you said 13. I remember the first time I tried smoking. I felt like I was turning green, dude.
SPEAKER 05 :
I could still feel that pain. Oh, my God. It was so nasty, dude. I took a big drag, and I inhaled it all. It felt like a horse was standing on my chest, stomping on me. Oh, man. For like 15 minutes, I was laying there in pain, curled up. It was like the worst pain ever. I never tried again.
SPEAKER 12 :
And what people don’t understand, smoking is super bad for you, dude. Like there’s so many studies of how it affects your mind now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wait a second. The lungs are the brain of the chest with all the vascular veins and stuff that are going throughout it and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 05 :
So smoking could be causing… That’s what it’s saying right here. Dementia.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it’s saying it can affect dementia. And along with alcohol, people that drink every single day. It’s not saying somebody who drinks… Once a month or once a week. It’s saying drinking every day.
SPEAKER 04 :
I do drink once in a great while, and I’m kind of good at making old-fashioned, which is like a slice of an orange, or in a cherry, and whiskey, ice.
SPEAKER 05 :
What about wine? Because the Bible says… Take a little wine for your stomach’s sake. For your stomach’s small infirmities.
SPEAKER 12 :
There are scientific proofs that if you take a little wine every once in a while, that it’ll help you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, does wine have anything to do with Alzheimer’s or dementia?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, alcohol. I think they’re referring to alcohol abuse.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, alcohol abuse. That’s what I was saying. If you drink every day for the next 20 years. not only is it going to affect you physically, financially, spiritually, but mentally. Let’s be real. There’s a lot of people die from alcohol.
SPEAKER 05 :
You could have alcohol and not be impaired by it.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s true.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I make a rum cake. Oh, really? And you’re not going to get drunk from a piece of rum cake. No, you’re not. You’re definitely not. But there is alcohol in it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Or a crepe Suzette where you burn off the liquor.
SPEAKER 12 :
Another thing it says is cognitive play, like strengthen your mind somehow. Do something like you were saying, puzzles.
SPEAKER 05 :
Puzzles, Jenga. Sudoku is really good.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sudoku, yes. That’ll definitely… And then it says another thing that, that will hurt you is, is, you know, um, drugs, like, like there’s certain drugs that are super severe. So that can affect you mentally.
SPEAKER 05 :
I wonder what, um, because this is a state that is legalized marijuana. So I wonder what marijuana, does it help or hurt? Jesus.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re asking something. Hmm. See, man, now you’re asking something that – because for me, like, okay, so when my mom had cancer, and I know dementia is different than cancer, but when the cancer got into her brain, I mean, she couldn’t really remember anybody. You know what I’m saying? So I was under the suggestion. I’m like, dude, if marijuana is going to help her eat, you know, pumper full of marijuana. You know what I’m saying? Like, like, because what cancer does is cancer, basically that disease is kind of like having a flu. It starves you. You’re not hungry. So if you don’t have anything in your body, you can’t fight the disease. And, um, because people, and because people don’t, don’t research cancer and things like that, there’s significant others basically starving. So, um, My mom, even though she had such severe cancer, it went from her brain to her throat to her spine.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so it just it just ate her up in like six months. She was dead when she had it. Problem is she had no strength to eat. I used to go to my mom and I’m like, hey, did you eat today? And she’s like, I’m not hungry. I can’t. I just feel too bad. I went and got—this is crazy we’re talking about this, man. Like, as a matter of fact, I’m not even going to talk about it because people don’t even need to know about it. But at the end of the day, she couldn’t eat, so basically she was starving to death. And because she didn’t have anything inside of her, she couldn’t fight the cancer.
SPEAKER 04 :
See, that goes completely against a theory that I had. And— that I’ve read upon with Max Gerson and everything where through diet or fasting and stuff that one could… Fasting’s a good thing. Stave off the cancers. So if you have cancerous cells and you starve them, then they cannot grow or metastasize any further. But it takes like three days of that fasting.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, intermittent fasting is actually good. Yes, really good for you. If you eliminate sugars and you have a regimen of fasting, not just being hungry for extended periods of time and causing worse starvation, but there’s a process to fasting.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because it’s different. Like think about when you have the flu, you don’t want to eat for whatever reason. And it seems like when you eat just like a bowl of soup, like you’re super full or, or you want to just like, you don’t feel like eating it. And I think the problem is, is when a person gets sick, they’re not putting the nutrients in their body that they need so that they can recover. So I don’t know, but at the end of the day, people, I think it was an excellent show, and everybody hope you had a happy New Year’s.
SPEAKER 04 :
Our heart goes out to anybody who’s dealing with cancer and dementias and these hard, difficult things, though we can never really prepare for it. I think here, the guys, we’re probably on a new mission to try and understand this stuff a little bit better for ourselves and our listeners.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and if you’re a man dealing with a loved one that has this, by all means, talk with your doctor. We’re not doctors. We’re not claiming to be. We’re just giving our guys perspective on this. So you all have a blessed day.
SPEAKER 09 :
I can’t hide myself. I don’t expect you to understand. I just hope I can explain what it’s like to be here.
SPEAKER 06 :
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