Dr. Majid Fotuhi

These are all published

scientific discoveries in the major journals.

It's not like some neurologist in this little village has this elixir that helps people that nobody else knows about.

There have been hundreds of randomized controlled trials to show that your brain has neuroplasticity, that your brain can improve at any age, that you can have significant improvement in your cognitive functions, even in your 70s.

And I feel like this is the time to balance all the negative news in the media.

Like the one, when you go to the elevators, it's all 20% habit in sixties, 40% habit in eighties, basically you're doomed to get demented and die soon.

It's very alarming to see these news and provoke anxiety inside people.

I'm in my sixties.

I have no plan to get dementia anytime soon.

Based on my understanding of literature, I know.

I'm going to be able to keep my brain healthy, just like the way I can keep my teeth healthy or my heart healthy.

See, people used to think that, ah, you're 60s, what are you doing?

Just sit home.

And you go to gyms these days, you see a lot of people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who are just exercising and looking good.

I was doing a triathlon a couple years ago.

And I was so proud of myself.

I did the swimming part for a mile and a half.

I had done 26 miles of biking.

I was finishing my 10 miles of running.

And as I was finishing, I saw this gentleman who clearly was in his 80s was about to pass me.