Oct 3, 2026 · 36 min · 13 segments
On this week’s episode of the Coming from the hard podcast, host Helene Beck, is joined by Eleonora Tornatore-Mikesh, president and CEO of CaringKind.
Helene BeckHost
And he had his first patient come in and they thought it was, of course, a mental health issue, which turned out later to be.
Well, Alzheimer's, I'll call it as well, obviously named after him, but a form of a brain situation that weren't connecting or something like that.
One of the reasons why we get lumped into mental health and stigma is.
is sort of at the height because a lot of times people think that Alzheimer's is a psychiatric disease.
It is an actual brain disease, very similar to Parkinson's and other brain diseases that really, yes, there are mental health components.
And I often say to people, it is, it is, you know, disease starts in your gut, which is obviously connected to a lot of things with mental health.
But, you know, this brain disease, you know, your heart and your brain are super connected.
And But once you have the APO4 or you've been tested for Alzheimer's disease or some form of dementia, it's a brain disease.
And a lot of times we're kind of trying to clear up that misconception.
Because, yeah, and that's why I was looking some stuff up to see the differentiation, the effects of someone having the disease, of having a mental health issue.
And he had his first patient come in and they thought it was, of course, a mental health issue, which turned out later to be.
Well, Alzheimer's, I'll call it as well, obviously named after him, but a form of a brain situation that weren't connecting or something like that.
One of the reasons why we get lumped into mental health and stigma is.
is sort of at the height because a lot of times people think that Alzheimer's is a psychiatric disease.
It is an actual brain disease, very similar to Parkinson's and other brain diseases that really, yes, there are mental health components.
And I often say to people, it is, it is, you know, disease starts in your gut, which is obviously connected to a lot of things with mental health.
But, you know, this brain disease, you know, your heart and your brain are super connected.
And But once you have the APO4 or you've been tested for Alzheimer's disease or some form of dementia, it's a brain disease.
And a lot of times we're kind of trying to clear up that misconception.
Because, yeah, and that's why I was looking some stuff up to see the differentiation, the effects of someone having the disease, of having a mental health issue.
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