Dr. Ayesha Sherzai
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Apr
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But with physical therapy, with a healthy lifestyle, with cognitive therapy, you can actually strengthen the connections between the cells that are already there.
And sometimes they can take over the function of the cells that are lost.
It's so wonderful to actually see people recover even after major injuries or major strokes when they start living a healthy life and implement these lifestyle facts.
So what caregivers are under tremendous stress, let's say their cortisol level is high, that kind of cuts off two or three different connections between cells.
Let's say, for example, they don't get a good night's sleep.
We know how common that is among caregivers.
Your brain didn't get enough time to cleanse itself and to function properly, let's say, four or five other days.
connections got cut off.
Let's say you don't have time to walk or to exercise.
Forget about it.
You have some other connections cut off.
Let's say you never really get time to do something creative because you're just stuck in this constant, you know,
mundane lifestyle of doing something over and over again.
Creativity doesn't allow for your brain to grow at all.
And then on top of that, just the sadness and this pressure of taking care of another person, the guilt that comes with it, the shame that comes with it, all of that actually just severs the beautiful connection between brain cells.
And that's what puts people at high risk.
The other thing is,
When you live with someone who has Alzheimer's disease or some sort of dementia, lifestyle matters too.
So you kind of share the same environment too.
You kind of eat the same foods that they do.
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