Kat Toups, MD is a Functional Medicine Psychiatrist who specializes in reversing Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia using a Functional Medicine approach. She also uses Functional Medicine in the treatment of Psychiatric, Immune, and brain-based disorders. Dr. Toups is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Certified Practitioner by the Institute for Functional Medicine. Dr. Toups was formerly an Assistant Professor at U.C. Davis, where she was the Inpatient Residency Training Director, and later the founded and directed the Bay Area Research Institute, a Clinical Trials Research Center in Lafayette, CA for 12 years. After serving as the Principal Investigator on more than 100 clinical trials for 12 years, 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. Dr. Toups has lectured at the IFM Annual Conference on Methylation, Integrative Medicine for Mental Health on Functional Psychiatry, and spoken to many Functional Medicine groups about Functional approaches to reversing Dementia. She was featured in the LDN and Lyme video, and also on the LDN Research Trust Radio show. Dr. Toups is the author of the upcoming book, Dementia Demystified, about a how to operationalize a Functional Medicine approach to reversing dementia and cognitive decline, and she is here to talk with us today about using LDN.

– What is LDN? How does it work?
– What conditions are suited to treatment with LDN? – Immune, Pain, Cancer, Psych
– Where do you get LDN? What is the cost? How do you dose LDN?
– What are the side effects?