Dr. Dale Bredesen explains why Alzheimer’s disease is now preventable—and how early testing and precision medicine can reverse cognitive decline.

Dr. Dale Bredesen shares groundbreaking insights on why Alzheimer’s disease is now considered preventable—and possibly reversible—when addressed early. He explains the precision medicine model behind cognitive recovery, the importance of early biomarker testing, and how lifestyle, metabolic health, inflammation, and detoxification work together to protect brain function across the lifespan.

Dr. Bredesen earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center and served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA, and the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bredesen also directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute before joining the Buck Institute in 1998 as founding President and CEO.