Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
Yeah, so the drugs are only slowing things down.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
They're not actually making people better.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
But a program like yours, based on these five pillars, that's actually where people are not only not getting worse, but they're getting better.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
That's huge.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
That's really huge.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
It's revolutionary and there is a little bit of a split where so many people are still on the one magic bullet.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
And then there's a growing group of people that are out there that are now saying, hey, there's more of the story.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
We need to have this multiple layers of intervention.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
And I think that multiple layer of intervention is a great place to go next because if you look at these individuals,
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
And you look at your five pillar program, which we're going to talk about in a second, and some of the things that contribute to shrinking your brain and then what it looks like to do the opposite.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
Many of these people that ended up with, you know, mild cognitive decline all the way to full blown Alzheimer's.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
And then within that, you have different stages, as you mentioned, right?
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
There's the mild, medium, super severe.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
And you're talking about how even people, if you catch it early enough with Alzheimer's, you're seeing programs like Dean Ornish's, programs like yours, being able to actually address things, improve things for those folks.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
When you look at the lifestyle that many of these individuals have had, I think a big part of your point here today for people like me who are in my mid-40s is that, hey, don't wait.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
till you have that decline that's there.
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
Audit your lifestyle now and see, are you doing a lot of these things?
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
How is your lifestyle compared to these key five pillars and a lot of the behaviors that are associated with them?
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
Is that fair to say?
Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimerās Isnāt Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
Too much damage.