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Dementia Demystified: Reversing Cognitive Decline and Dementia with Functional Medicine
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Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder – but it is not a mysterious, untreatable brain disorder. It is a reversible multisystem illness that occurs due to toxins and Infections and inflammation and lack of hormones and other diet and lifestyle factors. It has a strong auto-immune component as well.
Neurodegeneration does not just happen. It happens for reasons, and when we can look at the big picture and address all of the driving factors, we can gain traction in stopping and sometime even reversing the degenerative process.
Alzheimer's Dementia is a multi-factorial disease, and it is rarely due to just one thing. In order to reverse dementia, we have to look at, and rectify, all of the factors that contribute:
Metabolic, nutritional, toxic, inflammatory, infectious, autoimmune, and/or withdrawal of trophic support (like hormones and nutrients).
Dr. Toups will discuss the Functional Medicine approach she used to reverse her own dementia and uses with her patients and in the Precision Medicine Dementia clinical trial she conducted with Dr. Dale Bredesen. She will cover how to evaluate and test patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia using a Functional approach to determine the root causes of their illness.
Kat Toups, MD, DFAPA, IFMCP
Kat Toups, MD, DFAPA, IFMCP, is a functional medicine psychiatrist treating cognitive impairment and dementia. Dr. Toups is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (the highest honor bestowed by the APA), and a certified practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine. Dr. Toups has been practicing psychiatry for over 30 years, and functional medicine psychiatry for more than a decade. She has been a featured speaker at national and international medical conferences on dementia and functional medicine psychiatry topics, as well as a frequent guest on podcasts and summits. She has been the principal investigator on over 100 clinical research trials. Her specialty is reversing dementia, and she recently collaborated with Dr. Dale Bredesen on a promising prospective clinical trial using a functional medicine/precision medicine approach to reverse mild cognitive impairment and early dementia, where 84% of patients had improvement, including their head scans. The paper was published in the prestigious Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease – July 2022, and two additional papers have been submitted for publication.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Kat Toups has an employment relationship with Bay Area Wellness. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Kat Toups is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the California Psychiatric Association, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the International Society of Environmentally Acquired Illness.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Kat Toups has an employment relationship with Bay Area Wellness. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Kat Toups is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the California Psychiatric Association, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the International Society of Environmentally Acquired Illness.
