Dr. Majid Fotuhi

Not everybody who has memory problems has Alzheimer's disease.

So this is age-associated memory impairment.

It's very common and it's often fixable with minor things.

And, you know, forgetting your keys, going to a garage, not knowing why you went there are so common that I look at them like gray hair.

It is what it is.

It could be something going on, but the mistake that people make, the biggest mistake people make is to think it's Alzheimer's disease.

See, I cured a lot of people with Alzheimer's disease because they came to me thinking they have Alzheimer's disease and they had depression.

And I fixed their depression and their Alzheimer's disease went away.

I didn't fix their Alzheimer's disease.

They thought they had Alzheimer's disease.

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.