warm regards;
Dr. Isabel MD

My Heartfelt Story  

Before I share with you a little bit about myself and my passion to end alzheimer’s alongside my mentor Dr. Dale Bredesen, I want to applaud you for stepping outside of the box and searching for ways to help your loved one and maybe even yourself. Coming into this arena of health care, I am absolutely certain, this is the future of medicine. 

This team has a heartbeat like no other that will bring you hope, backed with tactics that are implementable. you are in the forefront with us and that takes courage and vision. Congratulations for not settling for the “that’s just the way it is” mentality and searching for the solution. I encourage you to always keep your fight on! 

Life hit me like a hurricane when my uncle, my mentor, medical doctor, my hero, was diagnosed with alzheimer’s dementia. Everyone around him was saying “oh it’s just old age” including myself. Unfortunately, this was before the book "the end of alzheimer’s" by Dr. Bredesen came out. 

My Uncle is still alive but gone mentally, and it brings me to tears when I think of him in that unfair condition. So, I know how you feel, I get you, and I feel the same way. What I found was a way to prevent and reverse the cognitive decline of dementia that precedes alzheimer’s dementia. You see our brains are supposed to work excellently until our last breath. 

We are not supposed to lose our minds as we age. That’s old thinking. and now you know my why. To help people not end up like my beautiful uncle.

From Dale Bredesen, MD, Chief Science Officer for Apollo Health
Progress Despite 2020 Challenges

Many will argue that this is truly a year to skip Thanksgiving — literally and figuratively — with recommendations against congregating, increasing deaths from COVID-19, and an unprecedentedly rocky presidential transition. However, this ignores the monumental progress occurring this year: this year, effective vaccines were developed at a new speed and by a novel method; this year, we are completing the first Alzheimer’s trial in which the actual causes of the cognitive decline are identified and addressed with a precision medicine protocol (and thanks go to three outstanding physicians for their work on this trial:

Dr. Ann Hathaway, Dr. Kat Toups, and Dr. Deborah Gordon, as well as the Evanthea Foundation); this year, we replaced generic prevention with a personalized prevention program (PreCODE); and this year, the NIH and the various established entities are finally talking about the multi-factorial nature of Alzheimer’s disease, supporting the trial approach we first proposed a decade ago. 2021 should be a year with less COVID-19 fear, recovery from recession, new job opportunities, and continued march toward a world in which dementia is optional rather than inevitable.  
 
I am thankful that, in 2020, the world has come together, turning crisis into progress.