A May 21, 2025 New York Times article exploring a controversial non-traditional approach to treating Alzheimer’s features a quote from KIE director Dan Sulmasy, MD, PhD.
The article by Lindsay Gellman tells the story of an Alzheimer’s patient’s foray into treatment championed by Dale Bredesen, a former physician-turned best-selling author of the 2017 book The End of Alzheimer’s.
The treatment includes lifestyle changes and expensive and extensive dietary supplements considered by many researchers and physicians to have some value but not enough hard evidence of efficacy to justify the expense.
Gellman explains, quoting Sulmasy, that “today, many people see the medical and pharmaceutical industries as ‘driven by greed.'” She reports that he points out that people “fail to see, however, that the ‘natural medicine’ movement also may be exploiting them.”
That can be true, he added, “even if the patient and the family wants to believe it, even if the practitioners who are doing this are true believers.”