Dr. Richard Isaacson, Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses a study that used WHOOP sleep data to search for signs of early Alzheimer's detection, plus background on the disease and how to combat it.

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