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Reverse Alzheimers - August 2021

<h6>Heather Sandison, N.D.</h6>
Welcome back to the Reverse Alzheimer's Summit. I'm your host, Dr. Heather Sandison and it's such a joy for me to introduce you to Valencia Porter, M.D. today. She is the author of this phenomenal book, "Resilient Health," she's also an MD, MPH, a leader in integrative and environmental medicine, combining ancient wisdom traditions, such as Ayurvedic medicine with modern science. 

For over a decade she worked with Dr. Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, providing integrative medical consultants, consultations and teaching health professionals and community how to achieve total mind, body and spirit health. She's passionately advocated for real solutions to the global problems of climate change, pollution and knowing that personal and planetary health are intricately linked. Dr. Porter is now on our team here at South Surrey. We were so lucky to have her. She also is the doctor seeing the majority of our Marama residents and he has her own deeply personal story to share about her treatment of dementia patients. Dr. Porter, thank you so much for being here.

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Dr. Valencia Porter is a Functional Medicine and Environmental Health physician and the author of &#8220;Resilient Health: How to Thrive in Our Toxic World.&#8221; Committed to helping clients prevent and reverse chronic illness, she is also a Bredesen-trained practitioner at Marama, a senior living facility that supports the lifestyle changes necessary to support cognitive health. Double board-certified in Preventive Medicine and Integrative Medicine and with a Master&#8217;s Degree in Public Health specializing in Environmental Health, Dr. Porter is passionate about using food as medicine and tapping into natural healing resources to prevent and reverse chronic disease. She was formerly the medical director at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and enjoys combining Ayurvedic medicine and ancient healing traditions to support full mind-body-spirit healing.

Dr. Valencia Porter

Valencia Porter

Dr. Heather Sandison is the founder of Solcere Health Clinic and Marama, the first residential care facility for the elderly of its kind.
At Solcere, Dr. Sandison and her team of doctors and health coaches focus primarily on supporting patients looking to optimize cognitive function, prevent mental decline, and reverse dementia by addressing root causes of imbalance in the brain and body.
She was awarded a grant to study an individualized, integrative approach to reversing dementia and is a primary investigator on the ITHNCLR clinical trial.
At Marama, Dr. Sandison has created an immersive residential experience in the lifestyle proven to best support brain health. She understands that changing your diet, adding nutrients, creating community and optimizing a healing environment are all challenging even for those will full cognitive capacity. At Marama, she’s done the work for you. All you need to do is show up.
She is also the host of the Reverse Alzheimer’s Summit and Collective Insights Podcast where she works to share what is possible for those suffering with dementia.

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Heather Sandison, ND

Valencia Porter

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