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

To think like I might be dependent on others, I might lose my dignity, I might lose my mind.

Uh no one would choose that.

Usually when you when you ask people would you lo rather like lose your legs or your brain?

And right, they're gonna pick legs every every time because it's just such a terrifying thing to imagine.

And exactly to your point, why have how have we gotten here?

Right?

Like what happened that with all of the resources that have been thrown at this awful disease, with so many people aging and approaching this er this time in their life when they are at the highest risk for developing dementia, why don't we have a solution?

And I think there's a couple of explanations, but uh unfortunately there there's entire books written about this.

One is called How Not to Study a Disease, The Story of Alzheimer's, and the other is called Doctored.

Um, by Charles Piller.

The first is called is by Carl Haroop.

Um, these are essentially descriptions of the history of like how did we get here?

What happened?

And we've been focused on this amyloid hypothesis.

At one point, if you were studying dementia and you weren't studying amyloid, you basically weren't studying Alzheimer's.

The issue is that is the paradigm, right?

Is there's sort of this perverse incentive in the pharmaceutical industry that to cover the cost, the extremely expensive costs researching a med a medical intervention, a drug, you have to be able to patent it and you have to be able to sell a certain amount of it to recover that cost.

And it has to be a single molecule, a unique single molecule in order to patent it.

And so it encourages a very simplistic approach to finding a solution to a very complex disease.

And that complex disease really deserves a complex intervention, but it's not one that you can patent.

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