Dr. Heather Sandison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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It's a privilege to be with you, Zach.
Thanks for having me.
Well, I you know, I do not I stand on the shoulders of giants.
There are so many incredible people who have come before me, done the really hard work of proving that you can benefit someone with dementia and Alzheimer's.
When I was in school, I ended up in naturopathic school because I was much more interested in health than in disease.
And my my own medical issues that came up in undergrad.
I went to undergrad in San Francisco expecting, hoping to go to UCSF, the best medical school on the West Coast, very much interested in medicine and health, but then became very disenchanted with the conventional medical approach as I navigated some of my own health issues during my undergraduate career.
I found I kind of stumbled across naturopathic medicine and in while I was in San Francisco.
And the moment I heard about it, just this idea that, you know, we think of the doctor as t the teacher, that we want to treat the root causes, that we want to like understand the foundational everything that it makes to create a healthy human, we want to really understand and dig into that versus just having surgery and medications kind of in your tool belt.
That immediately was attractive to me and what I wanted to spend my life doing.
And then fast forward to being in naturopathic school, when it was just an incredible experience.
I feel so lucky I got to do it.
Really amazing people who are attracted to that program and and that approach.
And still I was taught the way most providers are.
In my neurology class, I remember very distinctly being told there was nothing we could do to support someone with Alzheimer's, that to suggest that we could would be to do harm, would be to actually create false hope.
And I think that that whole premise has fully been turned on its head.
I uh there's a a woman uh who works with my mentor, Dr.
Bredison, and she calls the suggestion that there's nothing that can be done is actually creating false hopelessness, that that is doing harm.
Because there's so much that we can do to protect brain health.
And
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