Dr. Majid Fotuhi

because remember I told you, you have the bag of things for plaques and tangles and the basket of things for these other things.

And these other things can actually be more important than plaques and tangles.

So you can have high tau levels and if your brain is perfectly healthy, you'll be fine.

The high tau level, even if it stays high, it's not gonna kill you, it's not gonna cause problems.

Let me give you a study.

There was a study called the NUNS study by David Snow.

NUNS?

Yes, the NUNS study, yes.

The NUNS study showed that if you look at elderly women in their 80s who pass away, and then look at the levels of plaques and tangles in the brain, many of these ladies who had very high, stage six, like Alzheimer's from one to six, they have stage six plaques and tangles in the brain.

It gets as bad as it gets.

Yet,

these older women did not have cognitive symptoms because their brain were healthy otherwise.

So if they had done a test and they had seen at high tau levels, many of them would have stressed out about the fact of high tau levels, even though when they died,

they still didn't have significant cognitive decline.

We have an incomplete picture.

And I am concerned about having a piece of the number, like, you know, you have a panel of blood tests you can do, and you only have like one or two, and then,

That's incomplete information.

Ideally, you would like to go check it out and address it, but I think it will cause unnecessary stress for people like me, realizing that I'm a minority.

My lovely wife, I told her, honey, do you want to do the test?

Of course I want to know.