Dr. Majid Fotuhi

and they have shown only modest benefits.

The program, similar to Dr. Ornish, the 12 week program that I put together, have been shown to improve cognitive function.

Like a person remembered four things out of 12 things before, and now they remember six things out of 12 things now.

So there's improvement in cognitive function.

With these new drugs, the rate of decline has been slowed.

So if you don't do anything, they were remembering four things out of 12 things,

And usually if you don't do anything, two years later, they remember two things.

Exactly.

And this was what I think, you know, this was the most exciting part of my program.

I love seeing patients because, you know, when somebody has been told they have Alzheimer's disease,

It's like a death sentence.

As you mentioned, it's like worse than death sentence.

And I would tell them, listen, there are two bags of things that cause problems.

You have the plaques and tangles and a whole lot of reversible things.

Even though we're beginning to realize that even plaques and tangles can be reversed.

But these other things are definitely reversible.

I'm going to work with you and I'm going to have you to memorize five words.

And I said, doc, I can't do that.

I said, listen, we have these brain coaches and they're going to work with you.

You can't memorize five words.