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Summary: The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
Summary The End of Alzheimer's The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline Author:Quality Summaries IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a book summary of The End of Alzheimer's by Dale Bredesen and not the original book. This summary serves best as a companion to the original and contains a chapter-by-chapter analyses including key takeaways. This summary does not contain the full ReCODE program. — Alzheimer's disease is largely preventabl... more »e, and often reversible.Those are bold statements, especially from a conventionally-trained neurologist. But Dale Bredesen, MD, seems to be no ordinary neurologiest.After more than 30 years of intensive research into the molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's (AD), and clinical experience caring for thousands of patients, Bredesen is convinced many of medicine's central dogmas about dementia are misguided at best, flat-out wrong at worst.
He disputes the fact that there is no effective treatment or prevention method for it, providing details of his extensive and highly successful research as evidence. Bredesen dissects the disease, highlighting many contributory factors -- such as insulin resistance and nutrient optimization -- that almost always go unmentioned in traditional treatment. He closes his book with a reminder that once everybody knew a cancer survivor, but nobody could name an Alzheimer's survivor. That has now changed.« less