"One day someone called my office whilst I was with a patient and said, 'Do you want to be the person who cures Parkinson's disease?'.

So started an unlikely relationship between a philanthropist, a neurosurgeon and a stem cell scientist, brought together by a dream to pioneer an all new form of therapy...and trialed for the first time by the same philanthropist, on himself, the patient!

In this episode S2N Co-founder & CEO Prof Michael Valenzuela talks with neurosurgeon Dr Jeffrey Schweitzer of Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. We learn all about his team’s plan to tackle this devastating disease with a person’s own stem cells

In this episode learn about:

* What is dementia and how is it different to Alzheimer’s disease

* How it is possible to prevent dementia in the community and reduce your personal risk by attending to modifiable lifestyle factors

* What are cholinesterase inhibitors and do they work?

* What is S2N’s all-new cellular approach to treating Alzheimer dementia under investigation - how does it work and what stage of research is it?

* The importance of physical activity, especially resistance exercise, and mental activity, especially after retirement, for the prevention of dementia