7 HE PLAYS THE God of Thunder, and we know him as an invincible superhero—and Aussie-family bro—so when Hemsworth was hit with a genetic lightning bolt, it hit all of us. He took a genetic test for Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, the Nat Geo documentary series on longevity, and it revealed that he has two copies of the gene APOE e4, which is linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
“You’re constantly thinking you’re going to live forever, especially as a young individual,” Hemsworth said on Limitless. “Then to be told that this might be the thing that might take you out was like, whoa—it kinda floored me.”
Peter Attia, M.D., who specializes in longevity and is the consulting doctor on explained to Hemsworth that while this gene increases your risk of Alzheimer’s—making it eight to ten times
