Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And I remember the first time I saw her, she was an African American lady wearing a very beautiful blue dress, blue jacket, but she didn't talk much.

The sister did all the talking and her husband was there who had emphysema and was taking some oxygen too.

But anyway, I felt like I can make a diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease in the patient because she has a lot of treatable component.

See, when people get older, they have two sets of problems in their brain.

what we call Alzheimer's issues, the plaques and tangles, these proteins that accumulate, and this non quote unquote Alzheimer's issues, medical things, metabolic things.

And if you take care of this metabolic, medical things, there will be improved blood flow to the brain, there will be reduced inflammation, and it will be better cleaning and rinsing that happens in the brain.

So I worked with her and she started to perk up.

I reduced her medications.

I treated her sleep apnea.

We addressed her depression with medications and cognitive behavioral therapy.

And she received brain coaching with our staff to walk five minutes a day, 10 minutes a day.

And guess what?

In six weeks, she was much better.

I remember one day I was sitting in my office and I saw this lady that passed by.

I said, wait a minute.

Was that Carol who just passed by?

This lady came to me in a wheelchair, sitting there, not walking.

And here she was walking.

And by the time she finished the program, she was back to her church.

She was participating in community activities for a church.