The Quest To End Alzheimer's: Dale Bredesen : 522
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Dr. Dale Bredesen has spent over 30 years researching the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and has recently published the first paper on the Reversal Of Cognitive Decline in patients with early onset Alzheimer’s. He truly is a pioneer in the science of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain. He is also an internationally recognized expert on how Alzheimer's happens, and his lab, the Bredesen Laboratory, studies the mechanisms behind neurodegeneration.
Even if you don't have Alzheimer's, or don't know anyone with Alzheimer's, you have a greater chance of getting Alzheimer's disease than you think ... assuming you don't get hit by a car when you're young.
The information that you will learn in this podcast episode, will not only help protect you against neurodegenerative diseases but it has led to the publication of 220 research papers, and Dr. Bredesen just wrote an entire book called, The End of Alzheimer's, that frankly, everyone should read.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bullproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.4 | Today's cool fact of the day is that mental cues can alter your physiology. |
| 0:21.7 | A guy a psychologist named Robert Ader from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. |
| 0:27.7 | This is a famous guy who coined the term psychonuro immunology, which was groundbreaking. |
| 0:33.8 | Anyway, he and his colleague Nicholas Cohen did these experiments in the 1970s. |
| 0:39.2 | They trained lab rats to associate a stimuli with an event like Pavlov trained dogs to |
| 0:44.6 | drool when they heard a bell. |
| 0:46.5 | But what these guys did is they gave rats an immune suppressing drug that had sweet tasting |
| 0:52.3 | saccharine in it. |
| 0:54.0 | Eventually, the rats got so conditioned to the effects of the drug that if they ate just |
| 0:58.5 | saccharine without the drug, their immune system would also be suppressed. |
| 1:04.8 | Years later, this was repeated in college students, believe it or not, and the same effect |
| 1:10.0 | is true in humans. |
| 1:11.8 | Which means you can have a quote placebo effect at the cellular level, even though the college |
| 1:16.8 | students did not know that they were given an immune suppression drug at all. |
| 1:22.3 | They just knew, drink this weird tasting smoothie and come back and do it again in a month. |
| 1:26.5 | Pretty remarkable effects that there's stuff going on in our bodies that we don't know |
| 1:31.1 | about. |
| 1:33.1 | And speaking of things that we don't know are going on in our bodies, today is going |
| 1:38.7 | to be a fantastic, fantastic discussion with one of the guys pioneering Alzheimer's disease |
| 1:47.8 | and neurogeneral diseases in our brains. |
| 1:51.0 | And you're going to learn a lot, even if you don't have Alzheimer's, you don't know |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dave Asprey, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dave Asprey and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.