Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And I thought to myself, well, why are we labeling them as Alzheimer's disease?

They have super problems in their brain.

This was back in 2002.

And that's when I thought we need to change things.

This is not right.

We shouldn't give a label of Alzheimer's because when you tell someone they have Alzheimer's disease, that's the end of it for them.

They're just getting ready to have a miserable life.

And I felt like that's not right.

So I wrote my first book in 2002 while I was still a resident at Johns Hopkins.

And the title was Memory Cure.

And I talked about how high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, sedentary lifestyle, poor diet can all affect the brain by reducing blood flow to the brain, increasing inflammation, and affecting the natural rinsing that happens in the brain.

Back then,

there were very few people who said the same things.

And in fact, very of my colleagues were critical of me to say things like, hey, you can't prevent Alzheimer's disease.

In fact, I wanted to put the title prevention of Alzheimer's disease on a book as a subtitle, and that was too bold.

And we decided not to mention it because a lot of people were super critical of saying that you can prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Then I wrote several articles in peer review scientific journals, such as Nature.

I wrote two articles in Nature.

One about all the things that can shrink the brain.

And there are like 20 things.