Bredesen Protocol Facilitation

Ideally, you would work with your family doctor, but in the case you do not have one, depending on where you live, as a part of our program we may be able to provide names of doctors we have worked with before, or were recommended by others.

If you are looking for another Bredesen Protocol practitioner, please contact Apollo Health for a list.

Please discuss with a doctor before making any changes to lifestyle, diet, exercise, and supplementation.

When you come on our program, we provide you with a Step-by-Step guide on getting started with the Bredesen Protocol. This includes a letter template for you to print out and take to your doctor to get tested. 

If you do not have a doctor, self-testing options may be available depending on your location (USA and Australia have self-testing options).

However, all Bredesen Protocol suggestions are to be discussed with your doctor/healthcare practitioner.

This is unknown as it depends on many factors, including but not limited to:

• Underlying causes of cognitive decline, and years of cognitive decline. Those with several major perturbations, and several years of cognitive decline will likely be slow to respond as it may take years to reverse processes that may have started up to 20 years prior. Those of an advanced age may likely also not respond as quickly than a younger person without years of neuronal damage. 

• Definition of success – for some a slowing down of decline and maintaining quality of life is success, for others – achieving stabilisation is considered a success, for some – achieving both a halting of decline and improving some cognitive domains is a mark of success. Any alteration of the progression of cognitive decline could be considered a success by some, as currently, no other strategies or drugs have been shown to change the disease progression.

• Adherence to the most important aspects of the program for their unique situation. For example: ignoring one’s main contributors to cognitive decline and instead focusing on other less relevant aspects of the protocol usually does not lead to a positive result. Especially when toxins, metals, or mould/mycotoxins are a factor.

• For example: if mycotoxins are a major contributor, one must first remove oneself from exposure and resolve a mouldy house or belongings, and detox from the mycotoxins if one hopes to resolve associated cognitive issues. In this example, adhering to brain training and exercise parts of the protocol, but not addressing the major underlying causes (mould and perhaps mercury), one will not likely achieve stabilisation or reversal and slowing of cognitive decline may be a more realistic goal.

Unfortunately, just as chemotherapy does not work for some people with cancer, not everyone will benefit from the Bredesen Protocol. Underlying causes will not be known until after testing is carried out and genetics,  environment, and family and social dynamics also are important factors.

Other major factors in the successful implementation of the Bredesen Protocol are:

1) practitioner experience and

2) support and education for the client AND the caregiver (if the client cannot run their own program).

Ask your practitioner when they trained in the Bredesen Protocol, a copy of their case studies, or if you can connect with one of their clients/patients. You can read about 10 of our case studies in our co-publication with Professor Bredesen on the 100 Cases of Reversal of Cognitive Decline.

It is important to remember that the Bredesen Protocol is not a cure, and there has yet to be a large scale double blind random placebo study yet. We do hope that we will see these studies at scale in the future, based on the dynamics of these types of studies, it would be optimistic to see these take place in the next 5-15 years.

Professor Bredesen has now completed a clinical trial (currently in pre-print) which you may read here: https://www.apollohealthco.com/clinical-trial-results-2021/  and here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256982v1

Here is a link to a YouTube explanation video from Apollo Health: https://youtu.be/IctF8kSl3M0

And a great explainer video by “The Worthless Professor”: https://youtu.be/pUpphiOBELE

At the moment, a functional medicine approach which addresses the root cause of this chronic disease is the only method known that we are currently aware of to alter the progression of the disease in human beings (this may change in the future. Rat studies may show benefits in mono-therapies, however, lab rats have only 1 cause of Alzheimer’s which scientists create, whereas, humans may have a combination of causes).

The latest FDA approved drug has caused controversy as it has been shown to reduce amyloid plaque, but has not demonstrated improvement in cognition in the trial participants. A percentage of participants in the high dose group did show a slight slowing of decline above the “do nothing” group, but did not improve their memory.  A small percentage of participants experienced brain swelling as a side effect. Please see the 2021 Bredesen Protocol trial results which compares results: https://www.apollohealthco.com/clinical-trial-results-2021/  (pre-print – has yet to be peer reviewed) 

Red light therapy has also shown some efficacy, but is best used in a multi-modal approach which addresses the underlying reasons why cognition is declining in the first place.

There are many other complementary technologies, which also many be considered in conjunction with a root cause approach.

Here is an interesting blog article on Apollo Health regarding approaches to Alzheimer’s Disease https://apollohealthco.com/success-and-failure-in-alzheimers-treatment/

Please discuss any treatment or lifestyle options with your doctor.