A new book by Festival writer Dr. Dale Bredesen comes out on August 18, which lays out a specific plan to help anyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline.

The End of Alzheimer’s Program: The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age

In The End of Alzheimer’s Dr. Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his revolutionary new program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Now he lays out the detailed program he uses with his own patients. Accessible and detailed, it can be tailored to anyone’s needs and will enhance cognitive ability at any age.

This book offers a new and effective way to enhance cognition as well as unprecedented hope to sufferers of this now no longer deadly disease.

What we call Alzheimer’s disease is actually a protective response to a wide variety of insults to the brain: inflammation, insulin resistance, toxins, infections, and inadequate levels of nutrients, hormones, and growth factors. Bredesen starts by having us figure out which of these insults we need to address and continues by laying out a personalized lifestyle plan. Focusing on the Ketoflex 12/3 Diet, which triggers ketosis and lets the brain restore itself with a minimum 12-hour fast, Dr. Bredesen drills down on restorative sleep, targeted supplementation, exercise, and brain training. He also examines the tricky question of toxic exposure and provides workarounds for many difficult problems. The takeaway is that we do not need to do the program perfectly but will see tremendous results if we can do it well enough.

Dr. Dale Bredesen is an internationally-recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Bredesen’s career has been guided by a simple idea: that Alzheimer’s as we know it is not just preventable but reversible. His idea has placed him at the vanguard of neurological research. Dr. Bredesen is a prodigious innovator in medicine, with over thirty patents to his name, and he is the author of the 2017 New York Times bestseller The End of Alzheimer’s.