His story
Not from his patients’ doctors, and not for himself. This is the life that led to the five formulas on this site — told in dates, journals, and names you can look up.
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1978
After his anesthesiology residency, a young doctor walked into a yoga class in New Mexico on a stranger’s recommendation. He had struggled with focus his whole life. Within weeks of a daily practice, his own mind felt sharper and steadier than it ever had. That was the whole beginning: if how you live could change his brain, it could change anyone’s.
1987
The University of Arizona’s teaching hospital in Phoenix recruited him to found its Acupuncture, Stress Medicine, and Chronic Pain program — one of the first complementary-medicine pain programs in America. Acupuncture and nutrition on the same chart as anesthesia. It was an unusual thing to build inside a department of anesthesiology, and it worked.
1990
After years of running the clinic, he kept seeing stress steal his patients’ sharpness. He chased the reason through the research and found it in the work of a Stanford neuroscientist: cortisol, the hormone stress pours into the body, was starving the brain’s memory center. He began calling chronic stress a physical force acting on memory — years before the rest of medicine caught up.
1993
He and his wife Kirti founded the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation, and he has led it as president and medical director ever since. For three decades it has funded peer-reviewed research, trained practitioners, and carried brain-health education into communities that rarely hear it.
1997
Warner Books published Brain Longevity — his argument that the aging brain deserved a real program rather than a shrug. Translated into a dozen languages. More followed: Meditation as Medicine, Food as Medicine, The Pain Cure. He did not join the conversation about brain health. He started it.
2002
The supplements he had formulated for his own patients went on sale for everyone else — five formulas, meant to be taken together, because he could not find any he trusted enough to recommend. They are still made to his original formulations. He still takes all five, every day.
The part you can hold
The research became the book. The book became five formulas. The formulas became his Regimen — paired the way he takes them himself, every day, trusted daily since 2002.
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2003
He testified before the United States Congress on how the way we live shapes the aging mind. Afterward, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, M.D., wrote that his work in the field of memory loss should now be considered mainstream.
2011
The twelve-minute meditation practice his foundation had studied for years went into randomized trials at UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania, and West Virginia University. Published, peer-reviewed, public. The idea he had lived since 1978 was now being measured by other people.
Kirti
His wife Kirti spent decades teaching yoga and, before that, directing regulatory affairs inside a pharmaceutical company. She serves as the Foundation’s chief executive alongside him. Between the two of them, they know both systems from the inside.
Today
Still writing, still teaching, still leading the Foundation, still practicing every morning — and still taking his five formulas with breakfast and lunch. The question he started with in that first yoga class has never changed, and neither has his answer.
The meaning behind the name
In the ancient traditions of the East, dharma is the path of righteous living — the quiet, steady road that brings your daily actions into harmony with your highest self. Dr. Dharma took his name in 1981, at the turning point when he met the teacher who set him on this path. He was told it meant a pure lion on a victorious path. Years later, a Sikh elder offered him a deeper meaning: that dharma is one who always remembers.
To tend your mind and body with daily attention is a small act of dharma, too. He built the formulas so it would be a simple one.
The record
Do not take our word for any of this. The work lives in scientific journals with his name on it. Here is a sample you can look up tonight.
The Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization. Research findings describe the studied practices and do not describe any product sold on this site. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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Thirty years of Dr. Dharma’s teaching, written down plainly — diet, stress, movement, and the meditation he brought to the research world. Free, whether you ever buy a bottle or not.
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The formulas never changed. What’s back is the way he always meant them to be taken: together.
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