Dr. Heather Sandison

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Fully Alive: Unlocking the secrets to your healthier, happier, longer life · Can You Reverse Alzheimer's? A New Hope With Dr. Heather Sandison · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

But those are things that can be uh safe and efficient and effective for supporting brain health and memory.

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Learn even more.

So also B vitamins, you know, we want to look at the micronutrient side.

Do we have too much, too little?

Do we have enough to support our brain metabolism?

And then stress wise, we want to be thinking about too much and too little, right?

Being a caregiver for someone with dementia increases our stress, our burden um significantly for most people.

And so it increases our risk actually of d being diagnosed with dementia from anywhere from two and a half to six X.

So being a caregiver is directly impactful on the brain.

And making sure that so that you don't have too much stress.

High cortisol levels over time are toxic to the hippocampus.

So we have to mitigate for that.

But then on the flip side of the stressor, certainly you can have too much, but you can also have too little.

We need to have purpose and meaning throughout our day.

We've got to have a reason to get up and go.

And a lot of people derive that as they get older from mentoring, from hanging out with grandkids, from volunteering, from being involved at church and in other social, you know, organizations.

So thinking about where am I gonna derive purpose and meaning after I retire so that I'm not just like

kicking my feet up, waiting for five o'clock to have happy hour, you know.

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