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What Dr. Gupta Found in 40,000 Brain Scans — And the 2-Ingredient Remedy That Brought His Father Back
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN · Harvard University · University of Michigan, Neurosurgery
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40,000+ Brain Scans
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My husband said our grandson's name on his own for the first time in two years
I watched this video three times because I kept thinking I was missing something. My husband was diagnosed with early Alzheimer's in 2022 and had stopped recognizing some of the grandchildren by name. About five weeks after we started making changes based on what Dr. Gupta explained, he called our youngest grandson by his name without being prompted. His neurologist had no explanation. I am not making any promises for anyone else, but for our family, something has genuinely shifted.
341 people found this helpfulI was repeating myself four times in one conversation. My wife says that stopped around week three
My wife is the one who told me how bad it had gotten. I was repeating the same stories to the same people in the same afternoon and had no awareness of it at all. I spent thirty years as a civil engineer and it was humiliating. Three weeks after watching this and acting on it, my wife said I had stopped. I am now about six weeks out and I can hold a long conversation about a book I read without losing the thread mid-sentence.
278 people found this helpfulMy mother asked to call her sister on her own. She had not initiated a phone call in over a year
Mom is 79. For fourteen months she had stopped initiating anything on her own. Last Tuesday she walked to the kitchen, picked up the phone, and said she wanted to call Aunt Lorraine. I was standing right there and just cried quietly in the hallway. Her doctor was cautious but did say her last cognitive assessment showed measurable improvement from the previous one.
419 people found this helpfulI drove myself to the barbershop alone for the first time in eight months without getting lost
My son had been driving me everywhere since last spring because I kept taking wrong turns on routes I had driven for thirty years. I worked as a long-haul driver most of my life, so losing that sense of direction was crushing. Around week four I asked my son to let me go alone. I made it there and back with no confusion. He was waiting on the porch when I pulled in and did not say a word, just gave me a long handshake.
362 people found this helpfulMy father recited grace at Thanksgiving dinner. He had not spoken more than a few words at a meal in two years
Dad is 83. The last two Thanksgivings we worked around him at the table because he would get confused if we drew attention to him. This year, at the end of dinner, he cleared his throat and began reciting the grace our family has said since I was a child — all the way through, word for word. The table went completely silent. My sister had to leave the room. I had not heard his voice that strong or that clear in a very long time.
507 people found this helpfulI was skeptical. I spent years in pharmaceutical sales. But something changed around week four
I rolled my eyes at first. My wife had been asking the same four or five questions on a loop for the better part of a year, which breaks your heart slowly even when you understand it is the disease. About a month in, I noticed she was asking fewer repeat questions. Her neurologist said nothing in his notes suggested decline since the last visit, which for someone at her stage he described as unusual. I am not making any claims. I am just not rolling my eyes anymore.
294 people found this helpful