Alzheimer’s Toolkit for Midlife: Empower Your Brain Health with Dr. Heather Sandison
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy Pelz
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Are you worried about aging and memory health? Join us as we dive into strategies that empower women in their 50s to live healthy, vibrant lives while reducing the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s. In this episode, Dr. Heather Sandison discusses cognitive health strategies to combat dementia and Alzheimer's. This episode dives into the early signs of these neurodegenerative diseases, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle interventions, such as diet, exercise, and sleep. Dr. Sandison also explores scientific misconceptions around existing treatments, focusing on the benefits of ketosis, metabolic health, and innovative treatments. Dr. Sandison shares her professional insights and practical tips for those caring for aging parents, as well as providing guidance on the path to optimizing brain health at any age.
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Dr. Heather Sandison is the NYT bestselling author of “Reversing Alzheimer’s: The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health”. She is a renowned naturopathic doctor specializing in neurocognitive medicine and the founder of Solcere Health Clinic, a premier brain optimization clinic based in San Diego, and Marama, a residential program changing memory care to memory recovery. Dr. Sandison is dedicated to supporting those suffering with dementia and is the primary author of peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. She is shattering common misconceptions about Alzheimer’s teaching lifestyle change protocols that keep your brain sharp at any age.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Resetter podcast, I bring you Dr. Heather Sandison. Now, this is another |
| 0:11.8 | gem of a conversation for those of you that are either worried about dementia and Alzheimer's |
| 0:19.4 | and memory loss in your own life, or those of you that are |
| 0:24.3 | dealing with a parent that has dementia and Alzheimer's. |
| 0:29.0 | And let me give you a little bit of a background on Dr. Sandison and what you're going to hear |
| 0:34.1 | in this conversation, because I think there's a lot for all of us to learn |
| 0:39.0 | in what Dr. Sanderson is teaching. So for starters, she's a New York Times bestselling author |
| 0:45.7 | and her book reversing Alzheimer's just came out. I can tell you I will be buying it because |
| 0:52.0 | as you'll hear in this conversation, it's something |
| 0:55.3 | that we can actually give caregivers. If you have an aging parent, she actually speaks |
| 1:02.7 | directly to that caregiver that is taking, you know, that is feeding your parent and looking |
| 1:08.4 | after your parent. What's really cool is she's created this new toolkit |
| 1:12.9 | to not only help us improve cognition |
| 1:15.7 | and protect brain health, |
| 1:18.0 | but again, she is also trying to change |
| 1:21.1 | the cultural conversation around Alzheimer's. |
| 1:25.6 | And she studied under Dr. Dale Bredesen, who I have brought him on to this podcast. |
| 1:32.0 | And, you know, with his teachings, her experience and this new book, it's really becoming clear |
| 1:37.9 | that Alzheimer's is optional. So what you're going to hear in this specific conversation is not only the toolbox, |
| 1:45.7 | you're not only going to hear this new toolbox that she has. |
| 1:48.7 | And she goes through six different things that we can be doing in our life to really make |
| 1:53.5 | sure that we keep our cognition at its best. |
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