Dr. Majid Fotuhi

There are literally 20 things that can shrink the brain.

And you know, these are many of the metabolic things we just talked about, like high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, insomnia,

sleep apnea, too much stress.

There's so many a thing.

And I talk about the biology of how these things affect the brain.

Another article about all the things that can reverse that, like how exercise can literally reverse that.

Good diet can reverse some of the effects of the poor diet.

In other words, your brain has a lot of malleability

and you can intervene at any age.

Again, I published those in very good journals, but still this was all hypothetical academic.

In 2012, I decided, you know what?

I need to put the program together and apply these to real patients.

Talking in abstract and articles doesn't change people's lives.

So I took a bold move.

I decided to start my own neurology practice and put together this program, which I call the Brain Fitness Program.

This was 2012.

I started seeing patients in their 70s, early 80s, many of them in 60s, who had significant cognitive decline.

They weren't diagnosed with Alzheimer's yet, but they were not normal either.

They're in between.

It's called mild cognitive impairment.