Does a program exist to implement comprehensive lifestyle changes to preserve cognitive function? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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When it comes to slowing down cognitive decline in those with early Alzheimer’s disease a total package of lifestyle interventions is superior to currently available medications, a study by Johns Hopkins neurologist Majid Fotuhi has shown. Fotuhi and colleagues had already developed a systematic approach to implementation.

Fotuhi: We actually did develop a 12 week program that incorporated these five pillars of brain health along with medical treatment of existing conditions we saw that 84% of our patients with mild cognitive impairment had a statistically significant improvement in their cognitive tests. Half of them increase the size of their hippocampus by 1 to 3% and these were patients very similar to the patients that were enrolled in the randomized controlled trials.  :31

Fotuhi says anyone interested in brain health over their lifetime would benefit. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.