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Chasing Life

Why There’s More Hope for Alzheimer’s

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For the nearly 7 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, progress on treatments has felt painfully slow and incremental at best…until now. Dr. Sanjay Gupta traveled the country meeting people who have slowed, prevented, and in some cases even reversed the spread of Alzheimer’s. These are their stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are nearly 7 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease.

0:04.8

Chances are you probably know someone who's been affected by it.

0:08.1

It's the most common neurodegenerative condition in the world.

0:13.8

I've been reporting on this for more than two decades,

0:16.9

and any progress in the field has seemed incremental at best,

0:22.5

leaving most patients and their loved ones with few options.

0:24.7

But in the process of filming a recent documentary called The Last Alzheimer's Patient, I saw some

0:30.3

incredible signs of hope, meeting people all across the country who had been diagnosed

0:35.0

with or at high risk of the disease, and I saw

0:38.3

Alzheimer's, slowed, prevented, and yes, even sometimes reversed.

0:45.5

Importantly, it wasn't always about new expensive or experimental drugs, but lifestyle changes instead.

0:52.9

I know, it's hard to believe.

0:55.3

So I think you just need to hear it for yourself.

0:58.3

Here's part one of my documentary,

1:00.4

The Last Alzheimer's Patient.

1:18.7

I'm going to... I could use a strong cup of coffee. This is Chi Chi Zerbi and her husband John back in 2019.

1:33.0

Will you come see Grandma?

1:34.5

Take Grandma.

1:35.6

What do you owe?

1:37.6

Chi is best described as the matriarch of a huge, tight-knit family.

1:42.6

Yum, yum.

1:43.8

Oh, yum, yum. Oh, yum.

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