We're Committed to Funding Alzheimer’s Research Right Here in Minnesota

The Curing Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation is dedicated to funding Alzheimer’s scientific research, providing Alzheimer’s resources and offering in-person classes on how to prevent and slow Alzheimer’s Disease.

Our Journey and Impact

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Dr. David E. Crandall DDS is the brain behind this Foundation – literally. Though he had the highest level of Alzheimer’s possible, his brain upon autopsy was well preserved and capable of function. Researchers thought it was just great Genes at play until they came to realize that he’d been medicating himself over the years…and it’s this surprising drug regimen that researchers believe are the strongest clue yet for the Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Crandall’s drug protocols and brain will be studied at The Alzheimer’s Legacy Lab at the University of Minnesota. His miraculous journey provides hope that someday soon this disease will have a treatment…and can be cured.

Our Story

What Sets Us Apart from Others…

Based in Stillwater, the CAD Foundation makes sure your money stays here at home where it goes toward running the UMN Alzheimer’s Legacy Lab and supports our Alzheimer’s Prevention program being offered to older Minnesotans and Western Wisconsinites.

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We are Minnesota Home-Grown - with Florida Connections

We Support One Lab at a Time

We feel the “spray and pray” method of funding research lacks the accountability and efficiency needed to cure this disease. Which is why we are only supporting the UMN Alzheimer’s Legacy Lab.

We Will See the Science Through

The CAD Foundation is committed to funding The Alzheimer’s Legacy Lab from hypothesis to conclusion. No other non profit has made this promise to its research partners before.

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Photo Gallery of Dr. David E. Crandall DDS

David Crandall Thanksgiving 2019
David Crandall Summer 2017
David Crandall late Summer 2017
David Crandall halloween 2019
David Crandall Christmas 2018
David Crandall at the Track
David Crandall at the Track - cropped
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2017 celebrating - cup and cone
2017 christmas
2017 dad, feeling better from shingles - at josephs 2018
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May 2018 - weston's prom
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office pumpkin 2 orange
angela and dad
dad and anna
anna & dave xmas 2015 2
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dad with eric john and anna
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barbie and her baby

Who is the man behind this website?

My Dad, Dr. David E. Crandall is the subject of this website.  He raised me, along with my two older brothers and my younger sister. He was married 60 years to my mom. He was a dentist who practiced in White Bear Lake Minnesota. And he loved horses. Raising, training and racing thoroughbreds is what filled his evenings and weekends. 
 
But that doesn’t make someone famous.  Changing the history of a disease does. 
 
My dad also made the brave and often criticized choice to consult with scientists to devise what could potentially harm him – but could also potentially cure him.  He was willing to make that sacrifice as he had much to live for – 
 
He is truly a medical miracle because he is the very first patient on record who has been able to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 85 years old at time of death. He was of higher income, higher education (Dentist), and had a history of being very physically active. His dentition was NOT intact – he was missing #29 (lower right), #13 & #14 (upper left) & #8 (upper left). In addition, he has had extensive dental work including two root canals. Dr. Crandall had reflux disease – with a long and illustrious history of belching. He also had a history of auto-immunity, specifically: PMR, Hypothyroidism, R/A. Not until his dementia began did we start to see early signs of Periodontal Disease. When dad was allowed to follow the protocols on this website, his condition (medically documented) drastically improved.
As is so often the case when treating with multiple doctors, Dad’s own protocols were interrupted by docs who disagreed with his medical assessments – reversing all inroads he’d made.
Near the end of his life, the one drug that was the most effective in reversing his cognitive declines had become ineffective due to resistance (10 times on and off a drug will do that). And sadly, in late 2019, he succumbed to the disease. But not before being able to communicate his wish to have his unique brain studied. Presently, we have autopsied the Right hemisphere and have frozen the Left Hemisphere of “The Golden Brain” for future study. Dr. David Crandall’s Alzheimer’s Legacy Lab is presently gearing up to test the infectious hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease, which hopefully will result in our discovering a cure.
 
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