Dr. Majid Fotuhi

When it comes to plaques and tangles, the lifestyle interventions, early studies have shown that you can reduce the levels and there are some new drugs that are potentially helpful, but there are no standard guidelines of what to do with these things.

And there's no standard guidelines that shows that if you have high tau levels and you do this, this, this, this, your tau levels will drop.

The same way we have for cholesterol.

I think that kind of information will become available 10 years from now.

We need more specific guidelines.

Yes.

But let me give you an example.

I recently talked with someone who is 62 years old.

He's fit as he can be.

He's doing everything right.

And his tallows are high.

you know probably had alzheimer's at some point in time so i'd love to know where i stand on that spectrum i agree i give a lecture i give a teacher course at johns hopkins called advances in neuroplasticity and its applications in neurology where i give you 26 hours of lectures about all the things and of course i have plenty of time to explain everything to my students

I'm usually not in favor of doing a test.

So having taught them all stuff throughout the course, toward the end, I asked them, okay, class, how many of you would like to know your plaques and tangos levels, thinking that hardly anybody would raise their hand?

Guess what?

80% of the class raised their hands.

Yes, I think it's a personal matter.

I personally, I am a type that I worry about it.

And I have seen people who are perfectly healthy, and they're doing everything, and they still have high tau level.

The high tau level is a bad thing.