cure. we just hope it doesn t hit us or a family member. do you think there s things we can do to combat it? there are things we can do that not necessarily will prevent it but may prevent it o top of that heap. also food, how we eat affects our brains. our what we do meditation or not, even the people in the work that we have affects our stress levels. all of this combines to affect our brains. this is also a women s issue. two-thirds of other people that get alzheimer s are women and nobody knows why that is. the women s alzheimer s movement is trying to answer that question by funding research into women s brains. is it because of our hormones? is it because of menopause? does it have anything to do with how we process information? these are all questions that haven t been answered because we ve been looking at people who have alzheimer s and now this whole thing has shifted to how