Dr. Dale Bredesen, MD

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Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Elle Russ chats with Dr. Dale Bredesen, MD - he received his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his medical degree from Duke. He served as Resident and Chief Resident in Neurology at UCSF, then was postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Prof. Stanley Prusiner. He was a faculty member at UCLA from 1989-1994, then was recruited by the Burnham Institute to direct the Program on Aging. In 1998 he became the Founding President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Adjunct Professor at UCSF; then in 2013 he returned to UCLA as the Director of the Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

The Bredesen Laboratory studies basic mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative process, and the translation of this knowledge into effective therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, leading to the publication of over 220 research papers. He established the ADDN (Alzheimer’s Drug Development Network) with Dr. Varghese John in 2008, leading to the identification of new classes of therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. He and his group developed a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, and this approach led to the discovery of subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with MCI and Alzheimer’s disease, with the ReCODE (reversal of cognitive decline) protocol, published in 2014, 2016, and 2018. Dr. Bredesen is the author of the New York Times best seller, The End of Alzheimer’s, and the newly released, The End of Alzheimer’s Program.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
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0:22.7	Welcome back to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.
0:24.9	We are here today with Dr. Dale Bredison.
0:27.6	He is the author of The End of Alzheimer's, and we're going to discuss his newly released book,
0:32.4	The End of Alzheimer's Program.
0:34.6	Dr. Bredesen received his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his medical degree from
0:38.7	Duke. And I'm so excited to have this conversation. This is an important one. Welcome to the show.
0:44.3	Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. Well, before we get into the new book, let's just talk
0:49.2	about Alzheimer's in general. I think a lot of people are confused about it. We hear in the space,
0:53.6	especially in the paleo-primal space, a lot of people, you know, I think because of Dr. Pramont or have referred to it as
1:00.3	like type three diabetes, we know, at least in my knowledge, people who are going through Alzheimer's
1:07.2	or initially get hit with it if they adopt sometimes a ketogenic diet that could be
1:11.7	helpful to light them back up a bit. There's so much to talk about here. How did you get into
1:16.8	this particular niche topic? Yeah. So let me just put in perspective for one moment. We're all
1:22.9	suffering from the pandemic. The pandemic has killed, as you know, over 400,000 Americans. But for perspective,
1:30.5	Alzheimer's of the currently living Americans, about 330 million of us or so, Alzheimer's will kill
1:38.3	about a hundred times as many as the pandemic has killed so far. So Alzheimer's itself is a pandemic. It is a
1:48.1	trillion dollar global problem and unfortunately on the rise. And so as you know, there has been
1:54.6	no effective treatment. Unlike a virus where we can say, okay, we're going to get a vaccine or
1:59.7	we're going to get an antiviral.
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