Dr. Heather Sandison: Reversing Alzheimer's and Preventing Cognitive Decline at Any Age
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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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, San Diego’s premier brain optimization clinic, and Marama, a residential program turning memory care into memory recovery. She has dedicated her career 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 excited to shatter common misconceptions about Alzheimer’s and share what she has learned about keeping your brain sharp at any age.
We were blown away to find out that there are experts out there working toward, not just improving, but reversing Alzheimer's. Dr. Sandison's work is absolutely fascinating and this episode is packed with actionable advice on brain health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:15.6 | On this episode of the Ready State podcast, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Heather Sandison. |
| 0:21.9 | Dr. Sandison is the New York Times bestselling author of reversing Alzheimer's, |
| 0:26.4 | the new toolkit to improve cognition and protect brain health. |
| 0:30.6 | She is a renowned naturopathic doctor specializing in neurocognitive medicine |
| 0:34.7 | and the founder of Solceri Health Clinic, San Diego's premier brain |
| 0:39.1 | optimization clinic, and Marama, a residential program turning memory care into memory recovery. |
| 0:46.0 | She has dedicated her career to supporting those suffering with dementia and is the primary |
| 0:50.7 | author of peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. |
| 0:55.2 | She's excited to shatter common misconceptions about Alzheimer's and share what she has learned |
| 1:00.3 | about keeping your brain sharp at any age. I actually was not familiar with Dr. Sanderson's work |
| 1:06.3 | until, like, maybe the last six months or something, And her appearance on a couple podcasts popped into my |
| 1:11.7 | Instagram feed. And I'll be honest, I actually had no idea that there was even someone out there |
| 1:19.3 | or a group of people out there that were actually talking about reversing all the hours. Like, |
| 1:23.9 | that kind of blew my mind. Like I, of course, have in our space, talked to a lot of |
| 1:27.6 | people. We had Dr. Tommy Wood on our podcast about brain health and how you can hopefully prevent |
| 1:33.2 | Alzheimer's, but never anyone actually talking about the possibility of reversing Alzheimer's. |
| 1:40.3 | I think one of the things that it's easy to not extend the courtesy to around the brain is that the brain can heal, the brain can remodel itself. |
| 1:50.7 | And at no age, no ability, does your body stop trying to remodel itself and move towards kind of greater capacity? |
| 1:58.6 | It's a lot of work. |
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