"I feel like every day, I lose my memory more and more. It
started when I couldn't find my car keys, sometimes I forget
directions. My mother has Alzheimer's so I'm concerned," says
Jerry Solowitz, a 63 year old man. Ellen Lerner, 37, sometimes
worries that she can't keep track of everything in her job as a
public relations executive. "I feel like stress can get to me
easily, and I worry because I forget simple things like where I
put a Should these people be concerned? "Yes," says Lynda Toth,
Ph.D., co-author with Pavel Yutsis, M.D., of Why Can't I
Remember? Reversing Memory Loss Jerry should start a specific
program with a health practitioner who specializes in memory
loss, due to lots of unsuspected new causes for memory
dysfunction. Ellen needs to make lifestyle changes, as stress
can definitely lead to "Cortisol, which is one of the stress
hormones, can be harmful because it keeps calcium in the memory
pathway too long and destroys the neurons, which is very
damaging to the brain," notes Toth. Why Does M