The mainstream narrative of Alzheimer’s disease gives “a message of false hopelessness,” said Heather Sandison, a naturopathic doctor in San Diego determined to turn the tide of rising dementia and Alzheimer’s diagnoses in America. Her recent book, “Reversing Alzheimer’s” (2024), documents how patients at her residential care facility have delayed, and in some cases completely reversed, their cognitive decline.
Sandison’s approach covers the six components of brain health: toxins, nutrients, infections, structure, stress, and signaling. “We measure for imbalances: too much, too little, in the wrong place at the wrong time. These create dysregulation and neural degeneration.” Once scientifically measured, they can be addressed, and a precision-based plan developed specific to an individual patient.
