Dr. Gundrys guest claims to be able to detect and treat Alzheimer’s disease so that getting Alzheimer’s can be prevented.
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Yes, Bredesen has been a proponent of these claims for many years and has written books about it but I’m not sure many in the medical community concur with him based on a lack of reputable studies.
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Found it…
An Expensive Alzheimer’s Lifestyle Plan Offers False Hope, Experts Say
Thousands have paid for an unconventional program to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms. The medical establishment says there’s little to no proof it works.
The Alzheimer’s Association, which helped fund Mr. Bredesen’s earlier and more conventional research, sees his recent approach as insufficiently rigorous. His trials have suggested his protocol can improve cognition, but Maria Carrillo, the organization’s chief science officer, said they “fall short of what the research community” would consider convincing enough to suggest to patients, since they lack control groups and are small, with the number of participants ranging from 10 to 25.
Others have expressed similar unease. In 2020, Dr. Joanna Hellmuth, then a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, published an article in The Lancet Neurology pointing to a number of “red flags” within Mr. Bredesen’s studies, including “the substantial potential for a placebo effect.” Dr. Jason Karlawish, the co-director of Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said Mr. Bredesen’s research and recommendations don’t adhere to the standards of medicine. The Alzheimer Society of Canada has gone so far as to say Mr. Bredesen is offering “false hope.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/well/alzheimer-symptoms-reversal-dale-bredesen.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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You lost me at Dr. Gundry…
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I finally listened to the whole video. It wasn’t rocket science and it wasn’t a radical breakthrough. He recommends good and healthy habits that are probably not bad for Alzheimer’s patients. However, it’s probably not miraculous. There were some interesting nuanced points that may be valuable.
