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We've got to feed Max.
What's that he's eating, Kathy?
Cereal. It's cereal.
Look.
Hey! There's Daddy.
Max, there's Daddy.
Look at that boy.
It's too sunny for him.
- Come on. - Show your face. Come on.
- Come on. - That's it.
- I'm coming over here.
Max!
Upside-down cake.
Upside-down pavlova cake.
Yeah, well, I don't want you to eat it all up.
Kath.
Opening day, Leo's Hot Bagels Plus.
Oh, Bruce, take a picture of Max eating.
Where?
Oh, a happy customer.
- Max, you like that? - Yeah.
Isn't that good?
- How you doing? - Doing good, Max.
- How you doing there? - Fine.
Max's second movie is doing pretty good.
He's a regular movie taker.
Let me eat the scraps that my boys leave.
I eat the scraps of rye bread.
Okay, here's Kathy Lugavere.
Let us follow her with a behind-the-scenes look at her life.
Hi. Good morning, everybody.
I just clipped some coupons that I'm gonna never use.
And then I'm gonna start to make the beds
and try to straighten up the house.
I'm gonna kiss my son Max right now, who's holding the camera.
I'm just gonna interview you for a brief couple of minutes.
Okay, the first question is, what are your hobbies?
I like cooking. Sometimes it calms my nerves.
And for the most part, I enjoy watching over my children and my husband,
who is really my fourth child.
Hi, everybody. I had a very rough weekend.
I felt very depressed.
I don't know why.
- Hello. - Hey, Mom.
- Hi, sweetheart. How are you? - Pretty good. How are you?
I'm good. I missed your call yesterday night.
Uh...
We spoke yesterday. I didn't call you.
I don't think I called yesterday night, but...
Yeah? All right. What are you doing?
I am on my way to go do some work stuff.
I'm gonna be on a panel thing for the Internet,
- and pretty fun. - Yeah.
How's it--? How you feeling?
I feel okay.
- Yeah? - Okay, you know?
Well, I'll speak to you tomorrow.
- All right. Okay. - Enjoy yourself.
- Bye, sweetheart, I love you. - Yep, love you too.
- Bye. - All right.
Back there, right?
- Hello. How are you? - Good, I'm Chloe.
Max. Nice to meet you. Pleasure.
Oh, damn. Welcome to another week of The Point.
I'm your host Ana Kasparian, and I'd like to welcome Max Lugavere.
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- Hello. How are you? - It's good to see you.
You too.
Max, who is a filmmaker,
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Really looking forward to that. Lots of important work there.
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- Yo. - What's up?
How you doing?
Pretty good. How are you?
How's Mom?
And when you talk to her, I mean, how's the conversation?
How's her thinking seem to be doing?
Uh, um...
Did she seem to be more tired than normal or what?
All right, well, send my love.
Later.
Well, I'm the firstborn, so I'm the oldest child in the family.
So whenever I would come back to New York,
if I wasn't staying in a hotel, I would stay in her house.
So in a way, that has led to me over the years getting to spend more time with her
than my two other brothers who actually live in New York.
But then, you know, it slowly started to dawn on us
that something was wrong with her cognition and her movement, you know?
And so then it just became every time I would have to go back to L.A.,
it became more and more difficult to leave her.
But you always go fast.
- Slower. Slower. - He's a pro.
Fast.
Max just drove the car with Mommy for the first time ever.
How did he do?
He's my big boy.
I'll be driving it to the store soon.
Yeah, sure.
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Hey.
Mama.
How you doing?
Oh, man.
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Um, my mom is really proud of the artwork that she collects.
She collects lots of pieces from artists that are known, unknown.
Uh, so if you look around, you'll see that she's just got tons of things everywhere
that she buys at flea markets on weekends.
It's, like, her favorite thing to do.
She's running out of room,
but it doesn't stop her from buying new art.
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Everything is good. I'm not sick.
What's been going on lately?
Have you felt like things are different lately, or the same, or what?
What's he gonna...? What can I do?
What do you mean?
Nothing.
You know there's, like, little bugs in the bed?
What?
I might be seeing things.
You think?
But I saw little tiny-- Tiny, tiny little bugs.
- Hi, Max. - How you doing?
I'm good.
Um, so how do you think mom has been doing lately?
Well, I don't think she's doing good, like, for the last two weeks.
She hasn't been herself.
She hasn't been doing well?
No. Seriously.
Like, what's the problem?
She's been doing weird things, like taking all her stuff out the drawer,
and taking her clothes off.
- Randomly? - Yeah, Thursday. Yeah.
Not knowing how to put her clothes on, you know.
That we have to really help her get dressed, you know, put everything on her.
I'm really scared for her to be in the apartment.
- Why are you scared? - Because she might go out.
And then if she go out, and then if she don't know where she at,
how the hell y'all gonna know where she at?
Isn't it insane for a 62, 63-year-old woman to require that kind of help?
Yeah, because she's young.
She's 60... Yeah, she's 63. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, her mommy was 96, and she didn't even, you know...
...require the stuff that we're doing with Kathy at her age, you know?
So it's sad, you know?
And I hate to see her like that for real, so...
I gotta get that. Excuse me.
Just tell me how you're feeling today.
I feel marvelous.
- Do you? - Yeah.
How do you feel-- How did you feel yesterday?
I felt marvelous.
No, seriously speaking.
- What about brain health? - Yeah.
Is that a topic that's important to you?
Yes.
Why?
Because I have Parkinson's disease.
And what do you feel like with that disease?
Very tired.
Very scared.
What are you scared of?
I'm afraid I'm gonna die very young.
I mean, I can't even read a book.
And I can't, you know-- There's nothing I can do about it.
I've tried everything.
I've gone to a million doctors.
So now I've come to the realization
that if you can't beat them, join them.
So you feel like you're giving up?
I feel like I'm going to be giving up soon enough.
This thing is really knocking the shit out of me.
Parkinson's disease usually just affects the way you move.
Is that all that ails you?
What, that I lay in bed and I can't sleep because I can't move myself?
Yeah.
That's-- I'm a little scared that that's progressing.
Do you have memory problems?
I do, but that's not what bothers me.
What bothers me is that I feel like I'm stuck,
and there's, like, no going out of this.
It seems like sometimes you have problems with your, you know...
Those times when you're trying to say something,
and you forget what you're saying.
Happens when I...
That I can't even say it, and I get disgusted,
and I go on to the next situation.
Is it because you get disgusted, or because you forget what you're saying?
- Both. - Okay.
I'm telling you, it's both. It's everything.
Both.
Do your children help you?
No.
Never?
Never.
Nobody helps?
Max does a little bit.
- Me? - Yeah.
You're Max, aren't you?
Yeah, so why'd you say "Max"?
Max helps me to a certain extent.
But his brothers are the worst.
- Yeah? - Mm-hm.
The thing that makes me happy...
I like being with my sons all the time.
I don't know if they feel the same way, but...
Yeah, we do.
I hope so. I hope I'm a good mother.
You're a very good mother.
Um... You're an okay mother.
Bye, guys.
Bye, Mama.
Love you.
Oh, I also love you.
- See you later? - Okay.
All right. I love you.
I love you too.
- Good night, Max. - Good night.
That was fun.
She's awesome.
Mama.
She's on the Parkinson's drug, and she's on the Alzheimer's drug.
You know, no matter what kind of, like, dementia you have,
generally they prescribe the same drugs,
and that's only because the drugs barely work.
They throw these, like, drugs at you
that boost a certain neurotransmitter in the brain.
My specialty is really, like, the health aspect of things.
Whenever anybody is not feeling well,
or has a health issue in my family,
I'm usually the one to go with my family members to doctor's appointments.
Um...
To help manage their diets. It's just what I do. It's, like, you know.
And I don't-- To me, it doesn't feel like a burden.
I actually really enjoy helping out with health because I love health.
I love knowing as much about our biology as I can.
Good, bring your hands to your hips.
Elbows pointed up.
Exhale through your center.
Keep your arms up towards the sky.
- Hey. - Hey, how's it going?
- Good, how are you? - Good to see you.
- Mwah. Welcome. - Thank you.
- How you doing? - Good.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- It's hot out. - It is.
Um, so yeah, I wanted to talk to you about something.
- Okay. - Um...
Don't know how you're gonna feel about it, but...
...uh, my mom hasn't been feeling very well.
And she's been having some cognitive difficulty.
Uh, it's weird.
It's not something that I would have ever anticipated.
It's not in my family tree, but...
She's on the East Coast, you know,
and she's there with my brothers and her boyfriend,
but they don't help.
If I'm gonna be of any help to her,
I can't do it from 3000 miles away.
So are we going to continue pursuing other projects while you're in New York?
I'm kind of confused as to what you're trying to tell me.
I need to go back and be closer with my mom.
You're just-- You're moving to New York for good?
Well, I don't know if it's for good,
but it's gonna be longer than a weekend.
I just-- You know, I can't-- I can't be in L.A. anymore.
You know, 2 in the afternoon in the gym, you know?
Like, it's just-- It's too comfortable for me.
And there's just so much going on back East, that, um...
You know, that I just feel like I need to... I need to get back.
I think your career right now is at such an upsurge,
and I think this pivot is... Is it on brand?
I think we have to sit there and we have to ask ourselves, you know,
how is that gonna affect it? Is it going to be detrimental?
So I need to understand where you wanna be in this. How can I help you?
Or are we just going to kind of quit everything cold turkey?
I go on auditions in L.A. for hosting jobs,
and, you know, I wanna stab my eyes out from some of them.
You know, they're just, like, soul-crushing.
And even though they pay the bills, um...
that's not really what I signed up for when I moved out here.
You know, I want to make an impact.
I feel like you have a demographic, you have a following.
I don't care, you know, whether or not I lose a few followers.
I don't care.
I just think that this is the most important thing there is.
There's a lot of stuff going on back home,
and I need to tend to it for a while.
How you doing, Mama?
Sweetheart...
What's going on?
Happy Fourth of July!
Yay!
All right, Fourth of July in my apartment.
We got mom here, we got Sam.
Yo, yo!
Barbara-- Did you know Barbara's coming?
- Yeah, Sam told me. - Yeah.
Here, my view is better than yours.
Look at this.
But, Mom, your view doesn't look at the water at all.
- What does that look like? - That's the water.
Wow.
It's the water club. Club Max.
- The food is so delish. - It is, right?
The best, Max. Thank you.
Sam, the best.
What are you eating, Ma? Tell us.
- Give us a little-- - This potato thing with--
I don't know what's with it.
Are you trying to figure out what I did with my potato?
Sam, what did you make for dessert?
What I made for dessert...
It was when-- It was when I...
Whatever.
- Nice, what is that? - What is that?
That is a delicious parfait
of California strawberries,
with a cherry on top, with a crème brûlée,
and it should be topped with ice cream.
Nice. It looks like it's pretty sweet.
Very, something you'd never eat.
Max, you know, instead of wasting time,
you should take the long shot of the fireworks going off-- No, on the horizon.
Hello. It's so beautiful out.
Girls, girls, girls...
Come on, it's gonna be starting. Come on.
Come on. Come on out.
Mom, give a toast.
I don't have--
I don't have anything to toast with,
but I would like you to get out here
and see this because it's one of a kind.
I don't know if--
I don't know if we'll ever see this again.
- Why not? - Well, who knows?
Maybe you'll see better, maybe you'll see worse.
But right now, happy holiday.
- I'm proud to be American. - How are you feeling?
How are you feeling?
I-- I'm not as bad as--
I feel a little better tonight.
- You do? - Yeah.
- That's good. - A little better.
But I'm glad to be here with you, that's for sure.
Whoa!
What are you doing today?
- I don't know. - It's Sunday.
- So, what does that mean? - I don't know.
So, what are you gonna do today?
Um, well, I figure I'll go with Danny and Andrew,
and we'll go somewhere good.
- Yeah? - Yeah. We'll find out.
We'll call up. We'll see who's having street fairs, whatever.
But I just don't wanna stay in this-- In the apartment.
Right.
- You know? - Yeah.
So I'd like to go in the apartment.
What would you like to do?
You know what I like to do.
- Ma. - What?
Tell us where we're going right now.
We're going to Central Park.
- Are you filming me filming you? - Yeah.
This is what we got to deal with.
Ooh, I wanna deal with this.
Ah.
What day? What are you talking about?
What?
What do you mean?
But you knew what day would come?
What thing?
Why do you feel this way suddenly?
Do you feel like something is different?
How so?
What?
"The manufacturing of it is up to him"?
What does that mean?
We're going to get some brain scans done.
I don't want, really, to take so many X-rays.
They're not X-rays. They are...
They are what?
Well, one is an MRI, so that's not an X-ray.
There's no radiation involved in that.
And then the DaTscan, there might be radiation,
but that's meant to look at Parkinson's disease.
You're gonna have these scans today, and then--
I'm not gonna have the one that has the, uh...
- All right, let's ask. - The X-ray.
Let's see. Let's see what they say at the hospital.
All right. I don't want any more of that stuff.
I've had a lot in my lifetime.
- Of radiation? - Yeah.
Your neurologist ordered specifically these tests
so he could get a better look at your brain.
Right.
So we'll see. Let's find out what they say.
Okay.
It's gonna be okay. All right?
Mm-hm. Right.
You don't wanna get sick, so...
Thank you for your help.
I'll give you a gown to put on, okay?
Yeah.
And I'll give you two gowns, one to the back, one to the front.
The jeans do have to come off.
Kathy, so one more time,
just tell me your name and birthday, please.
- Kathy Lugavere. - Okay.
- And your birthday? - February 3rd, 1952.
Okay, great. Come on in.
You can lean your head back.
I can bring it up a little bit.
It's just cushions to help hold your head still as the table vibrates.
Kathy, are you able to hear me?
Okay, great. I'm just setting up your next picture.
Good job.
See, now that wasn't so bad.
Hey, Mom.
I got.
A toast?
To what?
Amen.
I do, I'm nice. I'm nice.
She has difficulty initiating motion.
- She doesn't-- - Yeah.
So she's got some Parkinson's symptoms
- and she's got... - Okay.
- ...the cognitive decline stuff. - Yeah. Okay.
Do you know when this started?
Uh, four years ago, five years ago.
Okay.
She had a PET scan, I believe, in 2013.
Okay.
And a DaTscan in 2012.
I'm gonna lie you down on a bed.
Your head is gonna be in a head holder.
I'm gonna secure your head there.
It's gonna give your doctor a better picture of what's going on in your head.
If you just-- Signature and date.
Don't you think that's important?
Yeah.
What's the total length of time of the scan that you're gonna do?
Probably about 45 minutes from the time I push start.
On you go.
All right.
And just back-- Back up like a bench.
Sit on this like a bench. Okay.
Perfectness.
There you go.
Just help me get her in the head thing.
Yeah?
I didn't make you do this.
Okay.
And how many hours of labor does he owe you for?
- Plenty, right? - There you go.
Mama?
Okay. Hey, can you please try to hang in there 20 minutes?
Hang in. I'm right here with you, okay?
I'm right here. Your son's here.
Are you okay? Is this--?
No.
Mom, it's an important scan.
Three-- Three minutes. Three minutes and you're done.
You know how--? How quick three minutes is?
It's a hundred and eighty seconds.
that's why I want you to get better.
- You have two minutes. - You have two minutes.
You're doing really, really well.
- Please. - Two minutes and--
Till this is done.
Yeah. Please, two minutes.
- Okay. - All right.
It's a constant decision-making process
where do you continue to push science,
get more scans, get more opinions,
try different medications,
you know, at the expense of quality of life, maybe, you know?
Or do you just kind of like...
let it, you know, let the situation kind of rest and let the--
You know, let the chips fall where they may?
Where?
Go on. Oh. Over there.
Do you remember that park? What street is that?
There's my father.
And my mother.
That's my mother .
Movie star looks.
Yeah, they did.
Here's Maxi. Maxi, say hi to Daddy.
Say hi to Daddy.
Have you tried to see her or what?
Anger mode?
Yeah.
- Oh, God. - Yeah.
Did mom's grandma and grandpa have dementia?
You've known Mom since she was a teenager.
Where the hell did it come from?
Were there any signs of Mom...
like, throughout her young adult life, her adult life?
In the office, for example.
One in a million.
But her--
Like her apartment is now, like basically a junkyard.
You know, her office, which I built in the back of the design room...
was piled with crap up to the ceiling.
Swatches of papers and cutting tickets and orders.
You know, we were in the garment business, so...
You know how many fights we had with her at the office, you know?
"Kathy, you got-- Gotta get rid of this stuff.
It's like ten years old."
And the sales people would come in,
"Kathy, you gotta straighten out this place."
The desk was piled so you didn't even know it was a desk.
I mean, the natural progression of life
is once you hit 50, 55, 60, 65,
you don't have what you had when you were in your 30s, you know?
You lose your memory, you misplace your keys, you forget to do this.
It's all natural.
It's when it's-- You know, it becomes, uh...
detrimental to yourself and to those around you.
Hey, how are you?
Nice to see you again. - Same.
- Lovely to see you again. - Thank you.
So in terms of your memory and cognition, any changes there?
Well, there's-- I don't know what you would call it, but...
To ask you some general questions,
do you remember what the date is today?
Um...
What the date is? No, I can't.
Well, how about the month?
No.
So you had some studies done.
The findings were fairly striking.
So it's clear that part of what's going on here
is Parkinson's disease
and likely something called Lewy body dementia.
A disease that's somewhat in between Parkinson's disease
and Alzheimer's disease
where there's both memory problems and then some movement issues as well.
A very good thing that showed up in the MRI that you had
was that your brain size, the anatomy of the brain,
didn't show any marked shrinkage.
Your MRI of your brain, in fact, looked very good.
- Oh, good. - So you know, that was a very positive thing.
It suggests that your disease is in fairly mild stages.
I think in terms of medications,
I think it would be worthwhile making an adjustment.
Increase the dose of that slightly.
And that's often very helpful in the setting of Lewy body disease.
And then, going down the road, I think managing your depression will be important.
I'm not depressed.
Well...
- So I think in part-- - Why do you think I'm depressed?
Your affect a little bit, your sense of energy
and the difficulty that you have with your sleep,
all of that goes together with a little bit of depression
as being part of the picture.
So any questions? Anything you want to know?
No.
I wish I didn't have this.
That's what I wish.
We're gonna do the best that we can do. Okay?
Okay. Yeah.
Stay away from me.
- All right. - You're in good hands.
What do we do now?
Um, now, I think we go. We're done.
- I had enough. - Okay.
So have I.
He mentioned that Lewy body dementia
tends to lead to worse outcomes
than Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
So to me, that's scary.
Knowing, you know, where, how much worse my mom can get,
to me, that's pretty-- Pretty scary.
I think we were looking at Alzheimer's disease in the wrong way.
We know that Alzheimer's disease starts in the brain
at least 20 to 30 years before the first symptom of memory loss.
So the million dollar question, actually, probably
the multi-billion dollar, multi-trillion dollar question is:
Why do people get Alzheimer's disease?
The memory centers of the brain, the hippocampus,
has a lot of insulin receptors.
So it's very easily affected by spikes in insulin.
The brain only takes as much sugar as it needs.
It's a demand and supply kind of thing,
so the gates only open if the brain needs glucose.
It doesn't matter how much you have in your blood.
If you have too much, it's just not going to be used,
and it's going to turn into fat.
And that increases inflammation
and is really bad for your cardiovascular health.
And everything that affects your cardiovascular health,
in turn, affects your brain.
We now have evidence that shows that if people are randomized,
basically, put in two separate groups at random,
and one group follows one way of eating or living,
and the other group follows another way of eating or living,
we can now have proof that you can change what you eat
and you can change your brain function in a matter of a few months.
It was shown that pre-diabetics,
even kids who are a little bit obese because of their diets,
they show a shrinkage of that part of their brains
that then really correlates with reduced cognitive performance.
And they're young. They're kids. They're like 15, 15 years old.
The overall problem is inflammation.
Inflammation burns things,
so that's an effective way to get rid of pathogens, bacteria, viruses.
What happens in Alzheimer's is then
you don't have an acute inflammatory problem,
like in a stroke.
You have low inflammation,
but chronic low inflammation over a number of years.
And so even if it's not like an insane amount of inflammation,
it stays there.
It lingers in your brain,
and little by little, it starts affecting the neurons.
So it may get rid of some of the plaques
or some of the problems in the brain, but at the same time, it really,
it makes little holes in the neurons,
and so the membranes start to deteriorate.
I don't know what to write.
You're supposed to write a wish.
Think Wailing Wall, Mom.
I wish...
Of course.
What did you write?
I...
I can't read it.
What did you write? What did you intend to write?
That I, you know, am hopeful
for all these people that are here
to have their dreams come true.
That's not what you wrote. You wrote, "I wish God watches all of us."
Oh, okay, good.
That's what you wrote, so just say that.
I wish...
- Just tell me what you wrote. - I can't read it.
I wish God watches all of us.
Just say that.
I wish God...
watches...
I think I did it. I'm not sure.
Just like in heart disease,
where you see fatty streaks in babies
of mothers who eat junk food,
they begin to realize there's a link,
and it does start decades before.
The question is, how far gone are you before it's irreversible?
From the American Psychological Association.
"Could Alzheimer's disease be a kind of diet-induced diabetes?"
Health and Public Safety. How may I help you?
Hi. I'm trying to get in touch with a faculty member at Brown University.
What's the last name?
Uh, De La Monte.
De La Monte. D-E-L-A-M-O-N-T-E?
Yeah.
Okay, I just pulled it up.
So we're interested in why people are getting demented, why the rates are so high.
We do know that chronic, simple sugar intake
not only does it increase the fat, the glucose itself,
the high levels of sugar are damaging.
If you think about Type 1 diabetes,
it's the kind where you don't have any insulin or not enough,
and so cells basically can't take up fuel.
You think about Type 2 diabetes,
that's when there's tons of insulin floating around
but it's like knocking on the door
and nobody can hear you so they never open,
so the cells still starve.
And the reason Type 3 diabetes came about
was because in the brain, you have both of them going on.
You don't have enough insulin and whatever's there,
the neurons are not opening the door,
so they're not functioning.
It basically starves to death.
So the majority of people who have Alzheimer's do not have diabetes.
On the other hand,
two to three times a risk of getting Alzheimer's
is present in people who have diabetes.
The rates of Alzheimer's from 1980 to 2010 have skyrocketed.
Before, they were really low.
Even if you account for our improved diagnoses,
you go back and you look at the rates, it just wasn't there that much.
So if you can cause it by some measure,
and you have a window, say 10 years, 20 years before that, to say,
"What did we change,"
you have an opportunity to intervene.
So what we've done is we've charted diseases that are common,
like cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease.
If we move to Alzheimer's disease,
the number of people dying in their 40s and 50s is really small,
and it kind of bleeps all over but it's not much of a change.
But when you look at all the other age groups,
you see this sort of progressive increase,
and it really starts around 1980.
This has gone up almost a thousand-fold, in terms of rates.
It's way too high.
Something is contributing.
So the whole story begins in the 1950's when the nation
was just in terror over the rising tide of heart disease,
which had come much out of nowhere in the early 1900s
to become the number one leading cause of death.
President Eisenhower himself had a heart attack.
He was out of the Oval Office for ten days.
You can imagine the fear that existed.
Life hung in the balance.
The nation prayed for his recovery.
Messages poured in from all over the world.
There's no doubt about the diagnosis of the president's condition.
He's had what we call an average attack of coronary thrombosis.
So into this vacuum of a need to explain the answer,
what was causing heart disease,
came one scientist, a man named Ancel Keys,
a pathologist at the University of Minnesota.
You know the chief killer of Americans is cardiovascular disease.
Disorder and degeneration...
His idea was that it was saturated fats that cause heart disease.
Saturated fats and also dietary cholesterol
would raise your cholesterol in your blood
and clog your arteries and give you a heart attack.
And he was this very outsized, aggressive individual.
He was incredibly unshakably confident in his own beliefs.
And he was able to kind of muscle his way
into the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association,
which was the leading group on heart disease at that time
and still today, really.
And he was able to get his idea, the diet-heart hypothesis,
implanted into the American Heart Association.
So the very first nutritional guidelines in the world
were in 1961, the American Heart Association says,
"Cut back on saturated fats
and cholesterol to prevent heart disease."
Keep your family healthy
and lower your risk of heart disease
by reducing cholesterol and saturated fats.
Don't eat meat, don't eat dairy, don't eat cheese.
That's the first time America had ever heard that advice.
Bread and cereal, especially at breakfast,
will give you plenty of pep for the day ahead.
Instead of animal foods, they were eating diets
that were high in polyunsaturated fats.
So they, like, instead of real milk,
they would have milk filled with vegetable oil.
All the people on that high vegetable oil diet
were all dying at higher rates of cancer.
When they finally started doing actual clinical trials,
the kind of trial that can show cause and effect, right, hard data,
they could not confirm his hypothesis.
They could not show that cutting back on saturated fats
increased your chance of living longer.
At that point, America was already deeply invested
in Ancel Keys' hypothesis.
So the American Heart Association had adopted it.
The National Institute of Health had adopted it.
The entire federal government is behind this idea.
At that point, there's just no backing out.
The federal government, in 1980, when it starts its guidelines,
they are both low in fat overall and in saturated fat.
You take away butter, meat, dairy, eggs, cheese,
all those things you ate, what do you eat on your plate? What's left?
Right? It's all carbohydrate-based.
It's rice, grain, that big bottom slab of the food pyramid
that we've been told to eat.
But the real flaw are the nutrition scientists themselves
who are not reckoning with the data out there.
Cheerios are made from oats,
the richest of all cereal grains in vitamin B1.
When you breakfast on Cheerios and milk,
you pack in the makings of good red blood,
strong bones, lively muscles.
That all adds up to go power.
No human being had a bowl of dry cereal until a hundred years ago.
It did not exist as a food.
♪ Those crispy Trix fruit colors... ♪
Cereal's a bowl of sugar,
and that's before you put the milk and sugar on it.
♪ And luscious lemon yellow ♪
So if you got a box of beautiful Trix,
who needs carrots?
Ooh, ooh, ooh!
Ooh!
The only time any great ape ever saw or ate sugar
was when fruit ripened on a tree or vine.
That would only happen once a year, in the summer.
So summer is right before the winter,
and winter is a time of less food.
So we actually take the sugar that was in fruit,
and we convert it into fat.
Those of us who are good at converting sugar into fat
were fat enough to make it through the winter, and they survive.
So that sets up a very simple operating system
that says, well, if sugar is going up in my bloodstream,
I must be at a fruit tree eating fruit.
There can't be any other reason.
What's happened to us now in the last 100 years
and certainly, the last 50 years,
is three essential things.
Number one, sugar became cheap enough
that normal people could buy it and use it.
Second thing, the Swiss invented refined flour in the late 1800's.
All flour is now refined.
You can take a piece of whole wheat bread,
it will raise your blood sugar higher and faster
than four teaspoons of straight sugar.
The third thing that happened is that William Kellogg invented cereal.
When we eat these sorts of foods,
our computer, version 1.0, says,
"Wow. You're at a fruit tree. It's summer.
Winter's on the way.
You should go back and get some more of that
because it's not going to last very long.
It never has."
Now, unfortunately, our computer can't compute
365 days of endless summer.
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
It happens all the time.
It's because Cocoa Puffs are made
with delicious Hershey's cocoa.
Luscious little chocolate crisp corn puffs.
Most American diets are sugar for breakfast.
They're cereal, which is 75% sugar.
It should be called dessert, not breakfast.
Most breakfasts are doughnuts, muffins,
bagels, processed carbs,
all these things are basically like having dessert for breakfast.
Weird. You don't want to look at that,
but I know you want to look at my beautiful mom.
The best way to explain the inexplicable
is to compare the human genome as a piano with 23,000 notes.
And let's say that you need to strike 300 of these 23,000 notes
to play the song "Alzheimer."
Now I don't have anything to say.
Mom, do you have anything to say?
Yeah, give me a hand.
If they will be played or not depends on the piano player.
And the piano player, it's most likely the microbiome.
The human genome doesn't change.
The microbiome, and therefore, the genes from bacteria,
they change all the time,
what we call, technically, epigenetics.
So if you're born by vaginal delivery,
if you're breastfed, if you don't have an infection,
you don't take antibiotics the first year of your life,
in other words, you keep a healthy, you know, friendly microbiome,
the notes to play the song "Alzheimer" probably are not touched.
Then you start to eat inappropriately, junk food,
or you start to travel, and you go and got an infection somewhere,
you take antibiotics.
You have a surgery and-- Something that changes your microbiome,
and would touch the notes that eventually you play.
And now you have the condition to develop, you know,
Alzheimer's or any other disease.
It's not destiny that you develop this.
And Max is having a bottle now.
And then pretty soon, maybe he'll give us a--
Do us all a favor and take a nap,
so we don't hear that whining, and whining, and whining.
You were no different.
♪ Happy birthday to Max ♪
Where is Max?
♪ Happy birthday... ♪
In our society, we have yet another problem,
and that is vascular disease.
The vessels get really, really tiny,
and you can't feed the organ.
If you should have major surgery, a fall, anything,
your brain doesn't get enough blood flow.
But many people, and I mean, like 30 or 40 percent,
develop Alzheimer's after surgery or a major incident,
where the oxygen level is low.
We've even seen people who've had repeated surgeries,
and they start going stair-step down.
You see these people and you think, "My gosh, this is crazy."
So this part of the brain is really important for aging.
This is the hippocampus.
It's the memory center.
As people age, that part of the brain is losing neurons.
So a little bit happens to everybody.
The problem is when you lose too many,
and that really puts you at risk for Alzheimer's.
The challenge is that it's, like, permanent.
Giving her her pills, for example,
it's something that has to happen every single night, for life.
So you need to find a solution.
And obviously, like,
you have to weigh what are short-term solutions versus, like, long-term ones.
It's like giving her her pills for the night aren't gonna fix the problem.
It's like you have to, like, figure out a way to manage that going forward.
Like, fortunately, I have two brothers that I could juggle that with,
but, you know, there's a lot of people that don't.
And there's a lot of people that are alone.
All right, Ma, can I interview you?
You gotta give me 10 minutes.
Okay.
I feel like I'm getting worse, I'll tell you that.
Why do you feel that way?
Because I feel like I'm getting worse.
I could look at you, and I have no idea what you're saying.
It's just...
It's scary.
What's scary about it?
It's all like--
It's like, "Fuck you.
Fuck you. You don't want to get better.
It doesn't matter, no matter what.
Just fuck you."
And that's how-- That's how I feel about it.
"Fuck you.
No matter what you're going to do, Kathy,
no matter what you're going to try,
it's not going to work.
These boxes remain empty."
Do you know what I'm saying?
No, explain.
No, they just...
The boxes are empty.
Oh, look what I got.
This is great.
These are really great.
Two dollars. Each.
- How's that? - Great.
All right, wait till you see this.
- You ready? - Yeah.
The coup de grâce. All right, take a look.
Wow.
- Isn't he cute? - Super.
Super cute. You're an expert at finding cool stuff.
Hey.
- What's up? - How are you?
Good. You?
- How are you doing? - Good.
- How are you? - So, I'm good, Andrew.
Be careful.
Alright.
I do focus on my kids a lot.
I'm one of those overbearing mothers.
- Okay. - All right, see you later?
See you later. See you later, guys.
When we went to medical school, we were taught that the vagus nerve,
primarily, is the brain telling the rest of the body, the gut, what to do.
We now know that for every fiber that goes from the brain
down the vagus nerve to the gut,
there's actually nine fibers going from the gut up.
And so we got it completely backwards.
The gut educates the brain, not the other way around.
Once you come to understand that diseases like Alzheimer's
start long before the symptoms are seen, so it's a silent disease.
The effects are occurring long before the symptoms occur.
If you have your choice between one thing to eat and another thing to eat,
or between exercising and not, or between getting a lot of sleep and not,
and the science tends to suggest that that would be beneficial,
once you get your head around that idea,
the question is, what are you going to do about it?
Hello.
- Hi. - How are you?
- How you doing, sweetie pie? - What's going on, Mom?
Nothing much. Nothing.
It's good to see you. How you doing? Hey, Liz.
- Good to see you. - Hey, Max. How are you?
- Good. What's going on? - Good to see you.
Nothing, just sitting and chilling.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Chilling and cleaning. And cleaning and chilling.
You ready for our date?
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
You know where we're going, right?
- Yeah. - Going to the Bideawee Home.
Look at some dogs.
- Maybe a cat thrown in too? - A cat thrown in?
- Beggars can't be choosers. - You would like to have a cat.
I do like cats. I like cats.
More than dogs?
- Uh... - No, you better not say yes.
Ah...
I don't know. I know it's a little weird, but I do like cats.
I've been known to like a cat or two.
How are you feeling today?
- I'm good. As good as I can be. - Yeah? Yeah?
You know? Things are a lot worse for a lot of people.
Don't come back with six dogs with you.
I'm warning you, Max. I'm warning you.
Six dogs?
Where are you gonna fit six dogs? This is New York City.
♪ I grew up right here ♪
♪ I cherish every year ♪
♪ The seasons change ♪
♪ And that's something I appreciate ♪
- Hi. - Hi.
How are you? Can I help you?
- Max. - Hi, I'm John.
This is Kathy.
- Hi. How are you? - Hi.
She's interested in possibly adopting a dog.
- Oh, nice. - Or six.
If you wouldn't mind just signing in,
this way we can keep track of how many people come in.
Oh yeah, let me just click that for you.
There you go.
That's okay, I can fill that in for you if you'd like.
- What is your name? - Kathy.
- Okay. - K-A-T-H-Y.
And your last name?
Lugavere, L-U-G-A-V, as in Victor, E-R-E.
Okay. These are the dogs that we have currently.
Is there anything in particular that you're looking for?
A Maltese.
We don't have any Maltese, but we do have a couple of small dogs.
- A couple of small dogs. - Yeah.
We have...
They said the black dog was a nice dog.
Yes, we have a dog named Robo.
He's a-- Looks like maybe a Cairn Terrier mix.
Mm-hm.
This is his information here. He's about 2 years old.
- Um, gained a little weight. - Two years old.
Yeah. He's a nice calm, um--
He's a nice synergetic dog. He's very sweet.
- Looks very cute. - Okay, so we'll look at him.
A big dog, I don't think I could handle it anymore.
It's hard in the city too.
Twenty-five pounds really gives you a larger option of dogs,
and a 25-pound dog is really not that much bigger.
Your dog needs to be able to get along with cats.
And Liz, but Liz is not an option.
- No, Liz likes dogs. - Oh, yeah? Okay.
Is Liz somebody else in the household, or...?
- Yeah, so... - Housekeeper.
- Oh, okay. - Okay.
All right, great.
I think that Robo might meet a lot of these requirements.
- Robo? Like RoboCop? - Yeah.
I know the rescues sometimes come up with cute names.
How long is Robo here?
He's only been here a couple of weeks.
He's a very sweet boy.
- Hey. - He's very happy.
- Wow, what do you think? - She likes-- He likes you.
Hey...
Oh, what dog are you guys taking? Oh, yeah.
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
They'll have fun playing together.
Yes.
- You're sweet. Come here. - I'm sold.
Do you think that you could take care of a dog like Robo?
She's-- He's little.
I could take care of it.
Just don't know that I could, you know, every day, you know...
You know, every day, every day, every day.
And I won't have any help at all.
That's what scares me 'cause...
What do you think?
I think he's very cute.
Do you want to maybe hold him and see?
Is he good on the leash? He likes you, Max.
Hey, I like him.
He's a cutie.
He likes Max.
He seems to.
I don't think that...
I don't think that he's as attracted to the family as...
What?
I don't know how to explain it.
You think he's just not that into you?
Wasn't that a movie?
It's important to feel that kind of spark when you meet one.
Yeah, so you see what I'm saying.
Yeah, that's how it was with my cats.
I just saw them and I immediately knew these are my cats and, uh...
Thank you for taking care of us.
No, it's no problem at all.
- Are you sure? - I'm sure.
So I'm gonna finish up his walk
because he might have to go to the bathroom.
Yes.
But you can leave your information with the desk inside.
- Awesome. - Thank you very much.
- No problem. - Yeah, thank you so much.
- Very nice. I'll be seeing you. - No problem.
- I hope to see you again soon. - I'll be seeing you.
- All right. Bye. - Bye-bye.
- Cool. Thank you. - No problem.
Oh, Mom.
- Did you show, uh-- - What?
Did you show my friends the bracelet that I made you?
It's a really special bracelet.
Why is it so special?
Well, because it's got the word "health" on it.
And the word that you inscribe on your bracelet is supposed to be like your intention.
Like whenever you look at the bracelet,
it's supposed to remind you of your intention
so that you stay focused on what it is
that you wanna manifest in your life.
And so I made this for you.
And the word that I picked was "health."
- Because I want you to be in perfect health. - That's good.
Very nice, right? Thank you.
So over the past few days, my mom has taken a turn for the worse,
cognitively speaking.
Um, it's been very difficult,
and she's been struggling with incontinence the past couple of days.
She... was wetting her bed, I've heard,
and I don't know what to do because one of the drugs
that one doctor prescribed for her for bladder control
has the inverse effect as one of her neurological drugs.
They literally have opposite effects on the body.
But I just, I'm...
I have... I don't know what to do.
I don't want my mom wearing diapers.
And it's really difficult, so...
Coming where?
Yeah, but I thought you said you had to pee.
I don't know.
Do you know what you're doing?
Yeah.
Here.
- What? Tell me. - Here.
What?
You're supposed to tell me.
You're supposed to take off your pants.
Yeah.
And sit on the toilet.
Okay, let me try.
- Ma? - Yeah?
- How you doing in there? - Doing good.
Huh?
- Yeah? Good. - Mm-hm.
What did you say?
What?
Why not?
What do you want me to do? Are you dress--
- Are you dressed? - Yeah.
Thank you.
Where is...
I don't get it, you couldn't figure out how to open up the door?
- It won't open. It won't open. - Huh?
Don't take a picture of me. I don't like the way I look.
I think you look pretty beautiful.
- Thank you. - Quick interview, okay?
Mm-hm.
I'm charging you for all these little...
- Interviews? - Yeah.
All right, Mom. So please tell me how you've been feeling lately.
Scary. I don't know what to do.
I think I'm gonna die.
Why do you think that?
Because I can't live the way I'm being forced to live.
Who's forcing you to live this way?
Well, how am I supposed to live?
How am I supposed to live, Max?
What am I supposed to do?
Tell me.
How am I supposed to live?
Sitting like this in bed? Like this?
Like a-- Like a dummy sitting there.
What else do you want to ask me, Max?
Do you feel like you're getting better?
No.
- How do you feel? - I'm getting worse.
Why do you think that?
Because, Max, I can't lift anything. I can't go anywhere.
I'm pissing all over the place.
I'm a mess. How could you not see it?
Well, I see it. I mean, but I'm just...
But you're not seeing it.
I'm not with you all the time.
I just want to know how you think that things are going.
I'm telling you.
What?
If I don't-- If someone doesn't kill me...
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
You must know that I never spoke to you and told you that.
Did I ever say anything like that?
No.
Are you gonna come tomorrow to help me?
What's tomorrow?
I don't know.
- Doctor's appointment? - I have to make them.
- Do you have anything tomorrow? - No.
But you need to make a doctor's appointment?
I need to make five of them, and get five opinions.
I need help, and I don't know who's gonna do it and help me.
I can't go out. I can't go to the movies. I can't--
I can't do anything, anything.
Well, you know that we're here for you, right, Mom?
But it's not enough.
You've got to be there to help me.
It's not enough to say, "I'm for you, I'm for you." It's not enough.
It's not what's happening.
What's happening is that I'm gonna die.
Benny's gonna be mad. We've gotta go with Benny.
All right.
All right, done.
All right, Ma. I think I'm going back to my place.
Yo, we finished, man. Just hang out. Don't worry.
What's up, Mama?
Ma, you know we love you, right?
You love cats and dogs.
And you.
If it was me, then you would really try to help me do this.
We're trying everything we can, Mom.
- I promise. - What have you promised me?
- What? - What did you promise me?
What did I promise you?
- What did we try? - Yeah.
Every possible thing that there is to try.
So it's hopeless.
What do you say, Ben?
The ball's in your court to really try to lead a healthy lifestyle.
So you should try the best that you can, to eat right.
For you, it's not as simple as eating right to lose weight.
If it means your whole world could potentially not get worse
or maybe get a little bit better,
that's what you should try doing.
Mama...
The brain is highly influenced
by the inputs that we provide it,
whether it's diet, whether it's stress,
sleep, nutritional status, toxins, gut flora.
All these things have a huge impact in the brain in creating inflammation
or creating dyssynchronous brain functioning.
And if you fix the body first, the brain often can recover.
Five. Four.
I'm letting go. All yours. Three.
Good. Two.
Energy. Energy. Yes.
Up. Boom. Up.
Work it. Come on. Energy. Up.
Up. Good.
Yes. All right.
Two, one. Start it. Push it.
First rep with me.
First three to five reps with me. Boom.
Yeah, come on. I see you.
I see you. Come on. Right there. Boom.
Peek-a-boo.
One more. One more.
Rest. Okay, beautiful.
Good, Kathy. Uh-huh.
Six, five, four,
three, two, and rest.
Kathy, you are done with this one, okay?
Amen. All right, you burned this down already.
Yay. And round of applause, round of applause.
Round of applause for Kathy, round of applause. Yay, yay.
Whoa, nice.
Give me a hug. You did beautiful today. Mwah.
Good job, Ma.
Strong muscle.
Finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease
takes a tremendous amount of scientific advances
and a very specific drug or intervention
that works very, very, very powerfully.
Because when someone already has Alzheimer's disease dementia,
they've had the disease for 20 to 30 years,
and the level of pathology, the level of burden,
in the brain is striking.
I feel that with prevention, since we have decades
to intervene...
...that will give us the most chance for success.
Mom, I see this beautiful red kale over here,
which I cannot ignore.
- Which one? - This one right here.
Radishes are a cruciferous vegetable, I've learned,
and when you chew them, they create this compound called sulforaphane,
which has been shown to reduce inflammation in the brain.
This is the aisle of food-like products.
This is my mom's favorite section.
Chips.
- Chips. - Nuts instead of chips.
- Mom. - No.
I love cake, I love cereal, I love everything.
She knows that I'll love her no matter what.
Even if she eats cake and cookies and cereal.
That's so nice anyway.
Okay.
I think that, by and large,
what should be on your plate should be mostly
colorful, above-ground vegetables,
especially fiber-rich vegetables.
I'd like to see on that plate something fermented at every meal,
kimchi, if you will, cultured yogurt.
There's merit to having some grass-fed beef,
some free-range chicken, some eggs from those free-range chickens,
some wild, non-farm-raised salmon.
There's good things in those types of foods.
I do want people to welcome fat back to the table.
Pour olive oil on everything that'll hold still.
Avocados, wonderful food.
Free-range eggs.
Free-range eggs actually have in them a chemical
that's so good for your body, good for your brain,
it actually is the precursor from what your body will make
things like testosterone, progesterone,
and even vitamin D out of, and that's called cholesterol.
A really terrific chemical.
Eat foods that contain cholesterol.
As we've just learned from a government dietary advisory group
in a 700-page publication,
that dietary cholesterol doesn't have any downside in terms of cardiovascular risk.
So eat these foods.
Eat the dreaded egg.
This is the kimchi.
- You smell that already? I do. - Yeah.
- So here, help yourself. - Okay.
This is what I'd like people to put at every meal.
Some form of fermented food.
Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish, very spicy, made from salted cabbage.
Should I just drape it on my food?
Actually, you can almost use it as a condiment.
- It's that spicy. - Cool.
Got some bite.
It's so good.
What you're doing when you're eating kimchi, is you are supplying to your body back
those bacteria that may play a role in stabilizing the gut lining
and reducing permeability.
- Wow. - So, what's so hard about this?
It's not hard at all. It's delicious.
Come on in, Mom.
Go into the kitchen. I've got something for you to try.
Are you going to tell me kombucha?
- What? - You're going to tell me kombucha.
Don't give me any kombu-- Kombu-- [chuckles] Kombusta.
- Kombusta? - Yeah.
- Busta. - I don't know what you're talking about.
- There's no kombusta here. - I'll have to smack you down.
I really hate that stuff.
There's some research that suggests that a little bit of fermented foods
may be good for you.
Yeah.
So I got some kimchi.
It's at least worth a shot.
Trying this stuff.
Try some.
I'm afraid.
It smells like someone's drawers.
All right.
It's potent.
What do they put in this stuff?
- Is it spicy? - Oh, man.
How come they stopped doing things for people?
- Tests and stuff? - What do you mean?
A month, a couple of months ago, they were doing a lot of, you know, trying.
Whatever.
Actually, we've done all the tests.
There are not many...
There are a few tests that we haven't done, but...
I don't think that the doctors think that they would change
the way that they approach your case, so...
You've done all the tests, so now it's really up to us.
You know, now the ball is in our court.
So we'll do our best.
Right?
When it comes to stress, stress isn't good for the body,
it's not good for the brain.
Every four and a half years of work stress leads to one extra year of brain aging.
These are things that people just don't realize.
Taking deep breaths, slowing down, things like yoga,
acupuncture, meditation, and especially mindfulness training.
Keeping the brain active, staying engaged, learning something new,
learning how to play a musical instrument.
These are the types of things throughout the life course,
preferably earlier, but also in middle life,
that can, I believe, absolutely protect the brain.
- Ma, you're going to cook with me, right? - Yeah.
You can be my sous chef.
Yeah, I'll be your sous chef.
You used to be a pretty good cook.
Pretty good, yes.
But then again, you only made, like, growing up,
all you made me were, like, noodles with butter.
That's about it.
You know, as a 12-year-old, that's a pretty good dinner.
How about broccoli?
I actually like broccoli.
All right, Ma, so this is the first thing that we made.
This is the kale.
I don't know if the kale's cooked enough.
It's cooked, trust me.
- All right, wait. - I just want to look at it.
Wait.
Look at that. Delicious.
And now, some delicious kimchi.
This is really good for you, Mom.
This is full of something called probiotics, okay?
Mm-hm.
So I'm gonna give you some of this.
The only thing is, Mom, are you planning on making out with anybody tonight?
Because you're about to have some pretty gnarly garlic breath.
Other than that, this is one of the healthiest things that you can eat, okay?
Next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pour a little bit of extra virgin olive oil
on your veggies to just complete the picture, okay?
Okay.
Look at that.
A lot of stuff you're putting in there.
Look at that. Look at that meal. So good.
Can I try it?
Not yet, wait.
- Okay, you ready? - Yeah. Ready.
Knowing that it's healthy makes it-- I mean, it's already really tasty,
but knowing that it's as healthy as it is,
makes it even more delicious to me.
Do you share that sentiment?
Yeah.
Washington Heights.
You lived there.
- What? - You lived there for about two years.
- In Washington Heights? - Yep.
When?
- When you were a baby. - Really?
Yep.
When it was just you and Andrew.
- Andrew too? - Yeah.
Wow.
- So you grew up here, huh? - Yeah.
The old ladies used to sit under there, under the trees,
and they used to play cards at night, late at night, sitting out there.
So how old were you when you lived here?
This is your whole...
For, uh...
Twenty-something, whatever.
I don't remember exactly.
Twenty-something years?
I lived here 22, no, I forgot how long.
- Over here. - Okay, so now,
this was my terrace.
- Where? - Right here.
I'm joking, it's not a real terrace.
But this is what we used for a terrace.
- This is amazing. - Yeah?
Families.
Let's see.
I had a great childhood.
Tell me about it.
Well, part of it is this.
This is awesome.
Who gets to do that?
Well, you do.
This was my room.
Wow.
Oh, man, Mom, they made it look beautiful.
Really?
Can you see? Can you see inside? It looks all modern.
It's empty.
Yeah, why would it be empty?
Nobody lives there. That means that you can move back in.
Yeah.
Your mother? Yeah.
- You remember my mother? - We do remember your mother.
She was a great lady.
She used to come, we'd see her every day.
I remember him was a little kid coming up with his father.
I remember you right about there.
It was a long-- Quite a while, right?
It was about, what, 20-something years?
- Yeah. - Oh, my God.
Yeah, we remember you. You never change.
The pleasure is still the same.
You still have it.
- I recognize you. - We recognize you.
It's a pleasure to see you guys around here.
Ma, he said you still got it.
You still got it. You still do.
- You look good. Yeah! - Thank you.
You're welcome.
Oh, my God, it's so beautiful.
- Concentration. - Just find the park.
♪ Won't you carry me home? ♪
♪ I've got a hole in my chest ♪
♪ It's the size of Texas ♪
♪ I know I'll never know ♪
Hi, dad.
♪ How to let you go... ♪
Let's go find the park, the place in the...
Where were you sitting in that video?
There they are in the park for the first time.
I think it was right there, actually.
- It was, it was right there. - From that video?
Yeah.
This is where I used to come and watch him.
I used to sit there on that rock, just watch him.
It's too bright and sunny for me and Max.
Come on, Max.
All right, move over this way and I'll get him to smile.
Oh, my God, look at that.
♪ Let me unfold ♪
♪ All I wanna do Is hold on to you ♪
♪ All I wanna do All I wanna do ♪
♪ Is hold on to you ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Hold on to you ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Won't you carry me home? ♪
♪ All I wanna do All I wanna ♪
♪ Won't you carry me home? ♪
♪ All I wanna do All I wanna ♪
♪ Won't you carry me home? ♪
♪ All I wanna do Is come home to you ♪
♪ Won't you carry me home? ♪
You know, I can only smile when I see my son.
♪ When you're young You got time ♪
♪ When you're old You've built a life ♪
♪ In between You're just along for the ride ♪
♪ Nothing's in a straight line Like the wrinkles on your eyes ♪
♪ Try to take it One candle at a time ♪
♪ When we turn 96 ♪
♪ With a smile on our lips ♪
♪ I'll have nothing left To wish ♪
♪ 'Cause people paint pictures Of places like this ♪
♪ People they daydream Of the life that we live ♪
♪ People they see Darkness and light ♪
♪ As opposite sides ♪
♪ But you and I know They're the same ♪
♪ When you're young You got time ♪
♪ When you're old You've built a life ♪
♪ In between you're just Along for the ride ♪
♪ Nothing's in a straight line Like the wrinkles on your eyes ♪
♪ Try to take it One candle at a time ♪
♪ When we turn 96 ♪
♪ With a smile on our lips ♪
♪ I'll have nothing left To wish ♪
♪ 'Cause people paint pictures Of places like this ♪
♪ People they daydream Of the life that we live ♪
♪ People they see Darkness and light ♪
♪ As opposite sides ♪
♪ But you and I know They're the same ♪
♪ We'll dance in the sun Till the warm evening comes ♪
♪ Then we'll dance By the light of the moon ♪
♪ We'll follow the thread ♪
♪ Sing the songs in our heads ♪
♪ Until all of our best dreams Come true ♪
♪ When you're young You got time ♪
♪ When you're old You've built a life ♪
♪ In between You're just along for the ride ♪
♪ Nothing's in a straight line Like the wrinkles on your eyes ♪
♪ Try to take it One candle at a time ♪
♪ When we turn 96 ♪
♪ With a smile on our lips ♪
♪ I'll have nothing left To wish ♪