Mild cognitive impairment must be counterattacked early, explains a new video from MCI911.com
Newswise — The brain degeneration of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be halted or even reversed if it is attacked promptly at its initial “mild cognitive impairment” (MCI) stage, maintains a new video released by MCI911.com. The narrator is Leslie Norins, M.D., Ph.D., its CEO.
The 20-minute film presents a military analogy: it is easier to defeat invaders at their beach landing than to wait until they move inland and construct resistant bunkers. In this scenario, the initial process of MCI’s cognition loss is likened to “a beach landing of enemies”, while the “inland dug-in bunkers” are represented by the brain damage, amyloid plaques, and tau tangles of subsequent AD.
Dr. Norins says it is common sense that a destructive process like MCI should be “nipped in the…
