REVERSING ALZHEIMER'S

An estimated 6.7 million Americans aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's dementia today. The toll is stunning: it is the fifth-leading cause of death among older Americans and in 2023 alone the cost of health care long-term care and hospice services for people with dementia has been estimated at $345 billion. But that doesn’t mean most of us are doomed to develop Alzheimer’s. Research in neuroplasticity has proven that our brains have the capacity to keep changing learning and growing even into our later years. Few know better about what Alzheimer’s does to people—to their brains their bodies their families their lives—than Dr. Heather Sandison one of the foremost Alzheimer’s dementia-care clinicians. In Reversing Alzheimer’s she shows how we can alleviate the factors that nudge the brain into decline add more of the things that contribute to brain regeneration and either make significant improvements in cognitive function or prevent cognitive decline from happening in the first place. Hers is an individualized step-by-step whole-body approach: Dr. Sandison systematically guides the reader through addressing the factors that contribute both positively and negatively to our cognitive health—from the biological and the physical (toxins nutrition hormones infections exercise) to the psychological (negative self-talk trauma); from the social (personal engagement with our community loneliness and relationships); to the cultural (ageism stress). She provides patients and caregivers with an evidence-based approach to reversing and preventing cognitive decline—and distills a multi-factorial approach to treating this complex disease into a doable step-by-step customizable program. Reversing Alzheimer’s aims to help people suffering from dementia return to themselves to give families their loved ones back and to help those who are living in fear of developing dementia the confidence of knowing they are taking good care of their current and future brain health.