In this episode I’ll chat with Dr. Kat Toups. Dr. Toups had worked with many clinical trials treatments for Alzheimer’s and after some struggles with autoimmune issues and allergies, she ended up catching her own memory loss when administering memory tests for patients. After she discovered Functional Medicine, she was able to turn things around and reverse degenerative brain disease for herself and for patients.
Kat Toups, MD is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (the highest honor bestowed by the APA), Board-Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and previously boarded in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is also a Certified Practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine.
Dr. Toups was formerly an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at U.C. Davis, where she was the Inpatient Residency Training Director and later the founder and Medical Director of the Bay Area Research Institute, a Clinical Trials Research Center in Lafayette, California, for 12 years. After serving as the Principal Investigator on over 100 clinical trials, including 20 failed trials for Alzheimer's medications, she realized that the elusive cure for brain and psychiatric illness was not going to be found in a pill.
In 2009, Dr. Toups attended a “Food as Medicine” conference that opened her eyes to the power of nutritional interventions and learned about Functional Medicine. She went on to complete all of the advanced training for certification at the Institute for Functional Medicine, and many other additional functional and environmental medicine trainings. Her practice is now devoted exclusively to functional medicine psychiatry and functional approaches for treating cognitive impairment and dementia.
Dr. Toups was a contributing author to the academic textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression: Redefining Models for Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention published in 2015 by CRC Press, and wrote a chapter, Decoding Dementia, in the book Life 201: A One-Stop Shop for Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness as part of a project for a PBS fund-raiser.
She has been a featured speaker at national and international medical conferences on Dementia and Functional Medicine Psychiatry topics, as well as a frequent guest on podcasts and summits.
She has recently completed collaborating with Dr. Dale Bredesen on a prospective clinical trial using a functional medicine method to reverse mild cognitive impairment and early dementia, and the study publication is expected in 2021.
Dr. Toups is also the author of an upcoming book, Dementia Demystified: The Definitive Guide to Resurrecting Your Brain, Reversing Cognitive Decline, and Regaining Your Memory.
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- For lectures and podcast interviews, you can subscribe to Dr. Toups’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/KatToupsMD
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- Share your thoughts and your experiences with her on her Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/BayAreaWellness.net
- Or search Kat Toups, MD – Functional Psychiatry and Dementia
- She posts lots of useful information on the brain, dementia, and Functional and Nutritional Psychiatry.
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