Dr. Allan “Chip” Teel presented some early results from his Reverse Alzheimer’s program to the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club. Dr. Teel has been running a Reverse Cognitive Decline Research Program at the Boothbay Region Health Center since January 2020. The program is based on the 30+ years of research published by Dr. Dale Bredesen at UCLA. In describing the people participating in our local program, Dr. Teel said: “Two-thirds of the patients in the initial cohort of 20 patients had a hereditary predisposition to Alzheimer’s. They carried at least one ApoE4 gene. Some of them carried two such genes and had been experiencing cognitive decline since their 60s.”
Early Anecdotal Results
Dr. Teel reported these anecdotal results: “Within 6 months of being on our program, nearly everyone in the group had stopped losing ground. And, six months later, many of them were making small gains. For example, a retired chemistry professor was at the point where all he could was add and subtract single digits on his fingers. And, after being on the program for 6 months, he plays bridge with his wife every night and he was able to do all the scoring in his head without using his fingers. He also was able to do the highest level Soduko every single day. And now he’s playing cribbage with a bunch of other people and whipping them most of the time. These are small victories, but pretty important in the life of a family.”
“Another person had struggled to find the right words,” Dr. Teel reported. “She is now able to come up with the words that she used to search for. A third person had lost some of the ability to speak in another language that she had worked really hard to master, and that language came back to her. A fourth person was struggling to even dress himself and then started dressing himself independently again. Those are little victories and for people who have only been in this program for a short period of time.”
For more Information
The Reverse Cognitive Decline Research program at the Boothbay Region Health Center now has over 40 participants, all of whom are committed to making the lifestyle changes required–nutrition, exercise, sleep, brain games–to heal their brains. For anyone interested in learning more about the program, we recommend Dr. Dale Bredesen’s latest book: The First Survivors of Alzheimer’s. Read about our local program here. Then call the program’s Volunteer Patient Liaison, Patty Seybold at (207) 633-4368 to get more information and to enroll. This groundbreaking program is currently entirely funded by donations.