Become an Alzheimer’s Survivor: Dr. Richard Isaacson’s Breakthrough Approach

47 million Americans are going to get dementia if we don't do something about it. People think of dementia and neurodegenerative disease as an older person's disease and it's not. Wow. We can detect changes in the brain decades before a person is going to develop dementia. We spent $2 trillion in over 400 studies and 99% failed.

So we're thinking about this wrong. Dr. Richard Isaacson is a leading preventive neurologist and he's dedicated to the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. He was the founder and former director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Wild Cornell Medical School. He now serves as the director of research at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and he heads the NIH funded Retain Your Brain program about retraining your brain and retaining your brain by doing specific practices that help you preserve your cognitive function.

Take us down to the sort of this framework of our current thinking and why it's flawed in the traditional neurological field and how you come to understand we need to take a different approach. 45% of cases of dementia may be preventable. When someone comes into your office, what are you looking at? What are you testing?

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