“There was an intensity to navigating it,” the “Cabin in the Woods” star said of his test results. “The reality of it sinks in. Your own mortality.”
on the “intensity [of] navigating” his test results in an interview published Thursday.
“Most of us, we like to avoid speaking about death,” the “Thor: Love and Thunder” star, 39, explained. “Then to all of a sudden be told some big indicators are actually pointing toBecause the Aussie’s DNA has two copies of the gene APOE4, he is “eight to 10 times more likely” to battle the progressive disease, which is characterized by mental deterioration.
Hemsworth, along with only two to three percent of the population, has a copy of the gene from both parents.He noted that his grandfather, who he hasn’t seen in “a few years,” was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and often “slips in and out of Dutch,” English, a “mash-up and then maybe some other new words as well.”
While the predisposition news was “confronting initially” to Hemsworth, it has turned into a “self-deprecating sort of joke,” he told the outlet.“I feel like my memory’s getting worse,” the Marvel actor noted. “It’s a placebo effect — or it’s taking place! … It’s my excuse now.”daughter India, 10, and sons Sasha and Tristan, 8, Hemsworth is now taking preventative measures against the dementia.
“When you have predisposition to … anything — it’s all about sleep management, stress management, nutrition, movement fitness,” Hemsworth continued. “It’s all kind of the same tools that need to be applied in a consistent way.”Hemsworth is the father of three children with wife Elsa Pataky.
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