{"id":19965,"date":"2022-11-18T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/chris-hemsworth-learns-hes-at-extremely-high-risk-to-get-alzheimers-in-upsetting-limitless-twist\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:21:19","slug":"chris-hemsworth-learns-hes-at-extremely-high-risk-to-get-alzheimers-in-upsetting-limitless-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/chris-hemsworth-learns-hes-at-extremely-high-risk-to-get-alzheimers-in-upsetting-limitless-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth Learns He&#8217;s At EXTREMELY High Risk To Get Alzheimer&#8217;s In Upsetting Limitless Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>We\u2019re not gonna lie, we form of assumed\u00a0<strong>Chris Hemsworth<\/strong>\u2018s new present\u00a0<em>Limitless<\/em> was simply going to be an excuse for him to take his shirt off and take a look at no matter new sport he was curious about. But the\u00a0<strong>Disney+<\/strong> actuality present \u2014 during which the\u00a0<em>Thor<\/em> star tries out bodily assessments and trials within the seek for longevity \u2014 has taken a surprisingly critical flip.<\/p>\n<p>While selling the\u00a0<em>National Geographic<\/em> present on Thursday, Chris introduced a surprisingly poignant clip to <em>GMA<\/em>, during which a health care provider tells him he\u2019s at an unusually excessive danger of growing Alzheimer\u2019s illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/chris-hemsworth-snake-wrapping-itself-around-neck-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Related: Chris Shares Scary Video Of A Snake Wrapping Itself Around His Neck!!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the episode, which focuses on mind well being, longevity specialist <strong>Dr. Peter Attia<\/strong> tells the\u00a0<strong>Marvel<\/strong> superhero that he has a gene which significantly will increase the danger of getting the degenerative illness. And he has it twice over. Attia explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got every blood test one can get. And you\u2019ve got two copies of APOE4. A set from your mom and a set from your dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>About 25% of individuals have the apolipoprotein E gene, APOE4, the \u201cstrongest risk factor gene for Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u201d in response to the\u00a0<strong>National Institute of Aging<\/strong>. 25% have one copy, that&#8217;s. Only 2-3% have two copies.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"SJPnK_NgHVI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Limitless with Chris Hemsworth | Official Trailer | Disney+\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJPnK_NgHVI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>When Chris asks \u201chow much higher\u201d an opportunity he has due to his double shot, Attia tells him \u201cprobably somewhere between eight and 10 times higher than that of someone in the general population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow. What dread-inducing information. After having time to weigh the report, he admits:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that I won\u2019t be able to remember the life I experienced, or my wife, my kids, is probably my biggest fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He additionally revealed his grandfather suffered from the illness, recalling:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe either doesn\u2019t remember who we are, you know, his grandkids, but also even his own children, for years. It\u2019s heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it\u2019s not all doom and gloom for Hemsworth. Dr. Attia advised the heartthrob in the event that they \u201ctake every step possible\u201d it was doable they might cut back his danger to the identical as \u201canyone else.\u201d Chris advised\u00a0<strong>George Stephanopoulos<\/strong> of the revelation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt very quickly just became another wonderful motivation to make some changes and arm myself with all the tools to live a healthier, better life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think any of the motivations for living better can come in many shapes and forms and this was, you know, whatever I\u2019m going to do now to benefit and protect myself from brain health will benefit every aspect of my health and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See the total emotional\u00a0<em>GMA<\/em> phase (beneath):<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3i_GcNxc4UY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Hemsworth talks learning about his risk of developing Alzheimer&#039;s disease | GMA\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3i_GcNxc4UY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>All six episodes of\u00a0<em>Limitless with Chris Hemsworth<\/em> can be found now on Disney+.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image via Disney+\/Youtube.]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] We\u2019re not gonna lie, we form of assumed\u00a0Chris Hemsworth\u2018s new present\u00a0Limitless was simply going to be an excuse for him to take his shirt off and take a look at no matter new sport he was curious about. But the\u00a0Disney+ actuality present \u2014 during which the\u00a0Thor star tries out bodily assessments and trials within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}