Little Empty Boxes is a feature length documentary from Max Lugavere, a filmmaker who chronicles his mother’s life as | dG1fOFVwVlM4WkYxMEk
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Okay, here's Kathy Luther.
00:05 - Hi, good morning everybody.
00:07 I just clipped some coupons that I'm gonna never use.
00:11 I'm gonna kiss my son Max right now
00:13 who's holding the camera.
00:14 (phone ringing)
00:16 - How's mom?
00:17 - It's like her brain has low RAM.
00:21 - Do you remember what the date is today?
00:29 - Um.
00:30 - Well, how about the month?
00:31 - No.
00:34 - We know that Alzheimer's disease starts in the brain
00:38 at least 20 to 30 years before the first
00:40 symptom of memory loss.
00:41 The million dollar question,
00:43 actually probably the trillion dollar question is,
00:46 why do people get Alzheimer's disease?
00:49 - The rates of Alzheimer's have skyrocketed.
00:52 What did we change?
00:54 - The federal government in 1980 starts its guidelines.
00:58 You take away butter, meat, dairy, eggs, cheese,
01:01 all those things you ate.
01:02 What do you eat on your plate?
01:03 What's left?
01:04 - The brain only takes as much sugar as it needs.
01:08 The overall problem is inflammation.
01:11 Inflammation burns.
01:12 What happens in Alzheimer's is you have low inflammation,
01:16 but chronic low inflammation.
01:18 - This is the aisle of food-like products.
01:22 Diet, stress, sleep, toxins,
01:25 all these things have a huge impact.
01:27 The question is, how far gone are you
01:30 before it's irreversible?
01:32 - I hope I'm a good mother.
01:34 - You're an okay mother.
01:35 - I need to go back and be closer with my mom.
01:40 - I don't want really to take so many x-rays.
01:43 I'm gonna get out of here.
01:45 - The best way to explain the unexplicable
01:49 is to compare the human genome as a piano
01:52 with 23,000 notes.
01:54 You need to struck 300 of these 23,000 notes
01:58 to play the song "Alzheimer."
02:00 It's not destiny that you develop this.
02:02 - Diseases like Alzheimer's start long before
02:10 the symptoms are seen.
02:12 The question is, what are you gonna do about it?
02:15 - You've done all the tests.
02:16 - But it's not enough.
02:19 You've gotta be there to help me.
02:21 - Ma, he said you still got it.
02:22 - You still got it, you still do.
02:25 - Here they are in the pod for the first time.
02:31 - So now it's really up to us, so we'll do our best.
02:35 (wind blowing)
02:37 (gentle music)
02:40 (gentle music)
02:43 (gentle music)