The NEURO Plan: Loma Linda’s Answer to Alzheimer’s Disease I Dementia Care
The recent update in memory careliving and dementia care is that a lzheimer’s Disease and other dementias can be prevented and even reversed ! That is the underlying belief and guiding principle of the NEURO Plan, created by the husband-and-wife team Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, co-directors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The NEURO Plan is laid out in detail in the Sherzais’ book, The Alzheimer’s Solution , published in 2017. The Sherzais are neurologists and neuroscientists who have both research and clinical experience in brain health, memory loss, and neurodegenerative diseases in general. NEURO is an acronym for the five components of the Sherzais’ Alzheimer’s prevention and reversal strategy: N utrition, E xercise, U nwinding, R estorative sleep, and O ptimization of mental and social activities. As is obvious from these five components, the NUERO Plan focuses on lifestyle choices and interventions rat...