ReCODE 2.0 Coach Training

Dr Dale Bredesen was the founding President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and his laboratory research over 30 years has focused on the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, leading to the first successful reversals of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, published in 2014, 2016, and 2018.

Dr. Bredesen will be reviewing cognitive assessments, the ReCODE and PreCODE Reports, ReCODE target ranges, supplements, and pathogens in his training modules. View Dr. Bredesen’s full bio here.

Christine “Chris” Coward, MSW, PCC, NWB-HC, has been coaching since 2004 and is both credentialed with the ICF and the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches.

She co-created an Accredited Coach Training Program called Habit Change Coach Training, where she has trained and mentored coaches since 2009. Currently, she splits her work time between running the coaching services for Apollo Health and her private Executive Coaching and Leadership Development business. Chris is in her second year as the President of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Colorado and also served on the board of ICF Philadelphia from 2007 to 2009. She lives in Denver, CO, and enjoys playing her bass guitar in local bands and having fun outdoors.

Valerie Driscoll, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a Certified Functional Medicine Coach through the FMCA and a Certified HabitChange Coach through the HabitChange Company. She is a trained teacher of both Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC).

Through her private practice, the Inner Piece, she teaches classes in mindfulness, brain health, behavioral change, and wellness, while her coaching specializes in helping clients apply mindful strategies in the areas of weight management and related health issues. She is also trained as a mental fitness coach through Positive Intelligence. Valerie lives in Cape May, NJ, where she conducts educational tours for a local winery and enjoys the benefits of living near the ocean and a national birding hotspot.

Joanne learned to thrive despite living with multiple autoimmune diagnoses by adding Functional Medicine to her healthcare approach. Her own health transformation inspired her to empower others in search of a new approach to addressing autoimmune disease, taking charge of their health, and thriving despite their diagnosis.

She completed the ReCODE training program designed specifically for health coaches and is now a facilitator for Apollo Health’s group coaching programs and a contributor to developing the new ReCODE 2.0 for Health Coaches training. Joanne is an NBC-HWC coach and a certified FMCA coach. She is also a Co-Founder of Thrive in 5, a marketing mentorship for health coaches which offers 15 CEUs for NBC-HWC recertification, co-author of the Simply Made Well Digital Cookbook, and a contributor to new projects and ebooks for HealthMeans. She offers individual and group programs, online or via phone, to help her clients make sustainable, positive diet and lifestyle changes that address their symptoms’ underlying causes. What she loves most is giving people hope and celebrating their progress and success along the way to living their best lives!

Julie Luby is a National Board-Certified Health Coach trained at the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. She founded Cogwell Coaching and has been coaching part-time in private practice for nearly four years.

Julie is most passionate about working with people to prevent and reverse chronic illnesses such as diabetes and cognitive decline. She loves hearing her clients’ stories and helping them find unique ways to incorporate healthy lifestyle changes so that they can live healthier lives than their parents or older relatives who have suffered from chronic illnesses. With a history of Alzheimer’s Disease on both sides of her family, Julie is passionate about doing all she can to optimize her own health and to help others do the same. In addition to private practice, she is also coaching members of a Native American tribe to prevent and reverse diabetes in a beta program with 4D Health. With a group of health coaches, she recently published a digital cookbook, Simply Made Well: Wholesome Recipes and Lifestyle Tips to Nourish Mind, body, and Spirit.

After a long career in Information Technology, Joan turned to Functional Medicine to rejuvenate herself and help her clients rebuild their health and resiliency through healthy aging programs.

She’s a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach who trained at the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, where she also took the first Bredesen Protocol training for health coaches. Like a GPS system for wellness, she helps her clients assess where they are, create a future vision, and find many paths to get there, course correcting when necessary.

Rosemary P. Benjamin, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator Specialist, and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach certified in Dr. Dale Bredesen’s ReCODE protocol, is committed to serving clients and their families struggling with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.

She takes a new and refreshing approach to her coaching style, utilizing functional nutrition methods. The coaching journey always begins by evaluating the gut microbiome, for if digestion is not working properly, all other systems in the body are thrown off. She is an intentional listener and will coach her clients, utilizing their strengths and motivation to move into a space of a healthier lifestyle. In her spare time, Rosemary enjoys spending time with her husband and six grandchildren and Misha, her Rhodesian Ridgeback. She has seen the benefit in her life of exercise and meditative time every morning to start her day.

For years, Monica suffered from crushing fatigue, brain fog, and the fear of succumbing to Alzheimer’s, as had her mom, aunts, and grandmother. After much research, she found The Bredesen Protocol and a supportive healthcare team.

Working together, Monica found renewed energy, a sharp brain, hope, and happiness. And now, as an FMCA Certified Coach and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, she helps others adopt lifestyle changes that keep their bodies vibrant and their brains sharp.

In March 2017, Marie Coburn completed the Advanced Training in Reversing Cognitive Decline through the Institute of Functional Medicine with Dr. Bredesen and became one of the first health coaches to work with ReCODE clients. More recently, she completed the ReCODE 2.0 Training for Coaches.

At risk of Alzheimer’s herself, Marie followed research on Alzheimer’s disease for years before Dr. Bredesen’s work offered her new hope. She is deeply committed to being part of the end of Alzheimer’s for herself and for those who are working through Apollo Health to prevent or reverse cognitive decline. She is also a certified Qigong/Tai Chi instructor with a special interest in neuroplasticity and positive psychology.

Dr Ann Hathaway, M.D., has successfully treated women and men with bioidentical hormones and natural remedies since 1995. She is a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine and is a director of the Orthomolecular Health Medicine Board.

As a board-certified Family Practice Medicine practitioner, she became disenchanted with traditional medicine’s approach to treatment and set her focus on searching for underlying causes, striving for real solutions. In her training modules, Dr. Hathaway will review bioidentical hormones and sleep and practice ReCODE techniques. View Dr. Hathaway’s full bio here.

Dr. Frykman is a laboratory physician with a background in immunology, genetics, internal medicine, oncology, medicinal chemistry, mathematics, and clinical biochemistry. Interested in the development of highly complex and high-impact tests in the areas of immunology and molecular genetics.

Dr. Shade specializes in the biological, environmental, and analytical chemistry of mercury in all its forms and their interactions with sulfur compounds, particularly glutathione and its enzyme system. He is a subject matter expert on the topics of mercury, environmental toxicities, neuroinflammation, immune dysregulation, and the human detoxification system.

Dr. Shade will focus on environmental detoxification and chemotoxins in his training modules. View Dr. Shade’s full bio here. 

Dr. Saunders practiced general dentistry and periodontal wellness before moving on to found Healthy Mouth Media as a means to “bridge the gap” between mainstream and cutting-edge research. Dr. Saunders and his partner and co-founder, Bonnie Benjamin, BSBA, host the yearly Functional Oral and Airway Health Summit, an event that highlights the importance of proper facial growth, airway health, proper breathing, sleep, and the importance of a healthy oral microbiome to prevent chronic diseases.

Dr. Saunders will focus on dental and oral health, airway, breathing, sleep, and their impact on cognitive decline, and mercury toxicity from amalgam fillings. View Dr. Saunders’ full bio here.

Dr. Whitney is a Family Physician who founded Revolutionary Health Services (RHS) in 2004 and is currently on the speaker’s bureau of the Bale-Doneen Method of Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention, the program at the core of the RHS preventive cardiology approach. He is an author and keynote speaker in dentistry about the many oral-systemic associations, inspiring dental professionals to assume their role as a functional-integrative health professional. He was featured in the 2014 documentary movie, “Say Ahh, the Cavity in Healthcare Reform.”

Dr. Whitney will focus on mercury toxicity from amalgam fillings, oral bacteria, arterial inflammation, and the science and impact of oral bacteria on Alzheimer’s. View Dr. Whitney’s full bio here.

Dr. Sharon Hausman-Cohen has used genomics for over a decade to deliver personalized medicine and help her patients achieve optimal health and wellness. As a researcher and clinician advocate, she recognized that information inaccuracies and complexity were barriers to entry for many.

Dr. Hausman-Cohen will focus on Alzheimer’s and Cognition Genomics: ApoE and other gene variants.  View Dr. Hausman-Cohen’s full bio here. 

Dr. Neil Nathan has been a Board-Certified Family Physician, and Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine (now known as the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine). He started his 49-year medical career as a family physician. He found that other disciplines (some of which were already included in the scope of medical practice and some of which were considered tangential) held the promise of providing useful answers for those patients who did not respond adequately to conventional medical care.

Dr. Nathan will focus on biotoxins such as mold diagnosis and treatment, interpreting results, mold toxins in food, antifungal programs, testing your home, case studies, and detoxification.  In addition, he will discuss Lyme Disease. View Dr. Nathan’s full bio here.

Dr. Cyrus Raji joined the Neuroradiology faculty and the Neuroimaging Laboratories faculty as an Assistant Professor at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in 2018.

He has trained at prestigious institutions for both clinical medicine and research: M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh, Diagnostic Radiology Residency at UCLA, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Neuroradiology Fellowships at UCSF.

Dr. Raji has coined the term “Preventive Neuroradiology” to detail the use of brain imaging biomarkers to understand the influence of lifestyle on overall brain health and future risk for Alzheimer’s. The New York Times, CNN, and the BBC have covered his scientific work in this area. His research has received the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) Roentgen Award, and the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), RSNA, and the NIH have funded him. He was also a recipient of the 2017 American Society of Neuroradiology Boeger Award Grant for Alzheimer’s Imaging research. Dr. Raji will focus on volumetric MRIs. View Dr. Raji’s full bio here. 

Julie is among the many who have recovered their cognitive health using the Bredesen protocol. Sharing the knowledge she gained from reversing her cognitive decline, she’s collaborated with Dr. Bredesen and his integrative physician wife, Dr. Aida Lasheen Bredesen, to write the handbook portion of the New York Times bestseller “The End of Alzheimer’s Program.”  She’s the founder and president of the ApoE4.Info non-profit, a grassroots organization of ApoE4 carriers working to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s disease.

Julie integrates her background in journalism, public relations, and counseling with her passion for cognitive health to serve as a Bredesen protocol educator and Alzheimer’s activist.

Julie will focus on The Bredesen Seven (B7) and the various components of implementing the protocol. You can view Julie’s full bio here.

Dr. Heather Sandison, N.D.

Founder, Marama

Dr. Sandison specializes in neurocognitive medicine and neurohacking. She has been trained to specifically address imbalances that affect the brain, including Autism, ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, and Alzheimer’s. She has trained with Drs. Dale Bredesen, Neil Nathan, Ritchie Shoemaker, and Bill Walsh, Ph.D., in addition to regularly attending and speaking at integrative medicine conferences throughout the year. Her healing philosophy centers around treating the cause of imbalances in the body, including toxins, nutrients, stress, structure, and infections.

She believes in the power of the body to heal itself. Dr. Sandison’s passion is to guide and support patients as they co-create strong foundations for optimal health through sustainable lifestyle changes and the best medical interventions to support balance in the body.

Dr. Sandison is dedicated to learning all there is to know about brain health and considers her amazing patients at NCNM and residents at Marama some of her very best teachers. Dr. Sandison has been awarded a research grant to study the effects of individualized interventions on patients struggling with cognitive decline at NCNM.

She earned her Naturopathic Doctorate at Bastyr University in Seattle. She currently serves on the medical advisory board of Neurohacker Collective and is a regular host of the Collective Insights podcast.

Brian Karr is a second-generation indoor environmental consultant who specializes in working with hypersensitive individuals with complex medical conditions. He has become a go-to mold & biotoxin resource for many medical practitioners across the country and has helped over 5,000 hypersensitive individuals nationwide. Karr is the Co-Founder of We Inspect and the creator of #moldfinders: METHOD, a digital training program developed for hypersensitive individuals and the doctors who treat them.

The METHOD program teaches its students how to identify and remove mold and mycotoxins from their homes so they can get healthy again — without having to hire or get scammed by a local inspector.