Dale Bredesen

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Neurodegenerative Disease Prevention: Metabolic, Inflammatory, and Gut-Brain Approaches

Neurodegenerative diseases — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, Huntington's, and multiple sclerosis — represent one of the most devastating and rapidly growing categories of chronic illness. Alzheimer's disease alone affects over 55 million people worldwide, a number projected to triple by 2050.

15 min · 1 researchers · 36 concepts
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The Therapeutic Ketogenic Diet: Beyond Weight Loss

Strip away the Instagram hype and get to the biochemistry. Ketosis is the metabolic state where your body stops running primarily on glucose and switches to burning fatty acids.

8 min · 1 researchers · 16 concepts
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The Master Anti-Inflammation Protocol

Inflammation is fire. And like fire, it has two faces.

12 min · 3 researchers · 27 concepts
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Genomics & Nutrigenomics: Personalized Functional Medicine

This phrase, attributed to Francis Collins (director of the Human Genome Project), contains the most important truth in modern medicine: your DNA is not your destiny. It is your predisposition.

13 min · 3 researchers · 24 concepts
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Preventing Cognitive Decline: The Bredesen Protocol & Beyond

Dale Bredesen — neurologist, former professor at UCLA, and author of The End of Alzheimer's — uses a metaphor that reframes everything we think about cognitive decline. Imagine you have a roof with thirty-six holes in it.

9 min · 1 researchers · 25 concepts