Dr. Majid Fotuhi

We are at a revolutionary stage when it comes to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

I've been in this field for 30 years.

I've been teaching at Hopkins and Harvard.

I've seen thousands of patients.

I've participated in doing clinical trials.

I've looked at microscope slides.

This is my life.

This is my life.

And never have I been this excited in the past 30 years of being in this field, because for the first time, we can actually reverse the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Remember we talk about normal memory, age-associated memory impairment, mild cognitive impairment, and then Alzheimer's disease.

But Alzheimer's disease itself has mild, moderate, severe.

And a border between MCI and early stage Alzheimer's disease is kind of gray area.

Recent studies have shown

that if you provide people who have mild cognitive impairment or early stages of alzheimer's disease and you provide them with a multi-disciplinary program that combines the five pillars of brain health that you reverse that amyloid build up in the brain remember i mentioned earlier that there are two bagger things when it comes to

brain shrinkage with aging that eventually results in Alzheimer's disease.

One bag is the plaques and tangles.

It's had these proteins that clump together and when they come together to cause inflammation and brain shrinkage and a whole bag of things that are due to lifestyle related factors, poor sleep, sleep apnea, too much stress, poor diet and all those things.

Now, usually people only look at the plaques and tangles as a marker of Alzheimer's disease, even though these other factors are equally, if not more important.

What's exciting and is thrilling is that

The multimodal lifestyle interventions have been shown to reduce the amount of flax and tangles in the brain.