Dr. Majid Fotuhi

That is the biggest mistake that people make.

Exactly.

It's like somebody has nausea and think that I must be having cancer.

I mean, nausea could have 20 different reasons.

Of course, somebody may have nausea related to cancer at some point, but a middle-aged person who has memory lapses is extremely unlikely to have Alzheimer's disease as the cause of their memory lapses.

often are simple things, working too much, not enough sleep, stressing too much, poor diet.

There's so many vitamin deficiencies, B12 deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, kidney problems, liver problems.

There's so many bread and butter, simple things that cause age-associated memory impairment.

The brain is good.

The brain is not tuned.

It's like a car that needs an oil change and the tires need to be changed.

and you need to change some of the fluids and you need to change the brakes.

It's not that car has fallen apart, it's just maintenance issues are overdue.

So the stage of age associated memory impairment is fixable easily.

And my recommendation to your audience is that if you are a young or middle-aged person, or if you're an older person who has these typical memory lapses, which I mentioned, don't think of Alzheimer's disease.

to ask yourself, what are the possible things that can help you?

I mean, in my book, I have a list of 40 questions that help people navigate simple things, hearing loss.

In fact, this is one of the most common factors for memory impairment.

You know, I had a family member

whose father had early signs of quote unquote Alzheimer's disease.