At Johns Hopkins, we have an epilepsy unit, and some of the patients, especially kids,

require surgery that removes half the brain.

So these kids, 9-year-old, 10-year-olds, who have only half the brain, move on to have normal life.

Several studies have shown that 12 weeks of moderate to intensive exercise grows the size

of hippocampus to such a high degree that you can see with naked eye on a brain MRI.

There are five pillars of brain health.

Exercise, optimal sleep, optimal nutrition, stress reduction, and brain

training. Of these five pillars of brain health, exercise is number one. My recommendation to women

is that please don't waste your time worrying about Alzheimer's disease and use that time to do some brain training, do a seducal, take a dance class, do something fun, go hiking with your friends, because that's a productive way of using your time toward having a healthier brain in the future.

The frustration is when new synapses are being formed. I forget something. I

repeat it. I forget something. I repeat again and I remember it. And, you know, I'll make it frustrated.

But that's a good thing. So when you're frustrated, great. Good job. You're doing it right.

Hello, my friends.

Welcome to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.

It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie Asima.

And we have a little bit of a theme over the next two weeks.

We are talking about brain health for women in midlife.

And this is the first of two that we are going to be doing. My guest today is Dr. Majid Fatuhi. So I think that a lot of times when we start to see in perimenopause

changes in our thinking, maybe we get consonant confusion or we can't remember why we walked into

a room or where's my phone again. I don't know where I put it.

We're like, this must be early Alzheimer's, right?

We always sort of jump to the worst possible conclusion.

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