Dr. Majid Fotuhi

The amyloid and tau levels drop with these lifestyle interventions.

One study was done here in California.

Dr. Ornish did the program where he provided a randomized controlled trial

in which one arm patients who had myocardial impairment or early stages of Alzheimer's disease received brain training, diet, socialization, exercise.

And the other group was told to wait, we're gonna provide this program for you in six months.

And then they monitored them and they had obtained levels of amyloid in the blood as a marker of how much amyloid in the brain at the beginning and at the end.

And guess what?

the amyloid levels dropped in these patients.

There are many other similar studies ongoing now to replicate this study.

There are also new drugs that have reduced amyloid levels in the brain.

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,