Dr. Majid Fotuhi

There are other people, however, who want to know, who do want to know their levels of amyloid intolerance.

Whoa, we got to really take this seriously.

There's a spectrum of differences.

I have seen many people who once they're told they have Alzheimer's disease, their whole life is upside down because every time they forget their keys, every time they forget a conversation, it becomes a huge problem for them.

Again, there are people who wanna know, and they wanna be proactive about it.

I'm proactive about it without necessarily knowing it.

I think it will cause anxiety for me.

You should check amyloid and tau levels if you're, let's say, 60s and 70s, and you have significant cognitive decline, and we want to determine how much of the plaques and tangles are causing your brain, causing problems in your brain, and look at your brain MRI to look at other things that cause your brain, and then put it all together.

Let me give you an example.

We know that cholesterol is bad for you.

when it comes to heart disease, right?

If this is a well-established, high cholesterol is bad for heart function.

I mean, some people argue with it, but generally it's accepted that high cholesterol is bad for you.

So let's say I do a blood test on you and you have high cholesterol.

But just because you have high cholesterol, it doesn't mean you're gonna have a heart attack.

In order to have a heart attack, you have to have high cholesterol, you have to have a sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, obesity, smoking, poor diet,

A whole lot of things have to come together in order for you to have a heart attack.

The cholesterol by itself would not necessarily cause heart attack if this is the only risk factor you have.

So imagine you get a cholesterol level and you see that your cholesterol is high and that you're gonna get a heart attack.

Of course, with cholesterol, we have so many medications to lower it.