Time Is Brain: Building California’s Precision Brain Health Network
Last week, we took the Time is Brain tour across California.
Three cities. Dozens of leading clinicians. More than 80 practitioners in Santa Monica alone. And one clear signal emerging everywhere we went:
The future of cognitive care is already being built.
Not inside isolated clinics. Not through one-off protocols. But through networks of practitioners learning how to deliver precision brain health together.
Stop One: Santa Monica
We kicked off the tour in Santa Monica at a stunning venue that immediately set the tone for the week: intimate, connected, and deeply focused on the future of medicine.
Dr. Sandy Kapoor opened the evening by sharing what he’s seeing every day in clinical practice: that meaningful improvement in cognitive decline is possible when practitioners address root causes early and systematically.
Dr. Christopher Shade showcased how Quicksilver Scientific’s delivery systems and detoxification tools support the six major subsets of cognitive decline drivers, from toxin burden to mitochondrial dysfunction.
And Dr. Lori Cardellino brought one of the most overlooked dimensions of brain health into the conversation: the mouth. Her discussion on oral health, systemic inflammation, and cognitive decline was one of the most talked-about sessions of the night and a reminder that precision brain health requires looking at the entire human system.
The evening was hosted by Dr. Michael Sinel, whose passion for longevity innovation and systems-based care helped create a truly high-level gathering of practitioners ready for what comes next.
Stop Two: Santa Barbara
Before our Santa Barbara event, we toured Healthspan+, a new kind of longevity fitness center focused on helping older adults maintain strength, mobility, and metabolic resilience.
It was a powerful reminder that muscle is not just about aging well physically. It’s deeply connected to brain health.
Exercise, mitochondrial function, metabolic flexibility, and cognitive resilience are all part of the same network.
Dr. Ryan Arnold, medical director of Healthspan+ and founder of Clava Health, led the evening discussion around a long communal dinner table that created exactly the kind of conversations we hoped for: honest, practical, implementation-focused dialogue between clinicians who are actively building this new model of care.
Stop Three: San Francisco
We closed the tour back at SafeHouse in San Francisco.
If Santa Monica felt energizing and Santa Barbara felt intimate, San Francisco felt like momentum.
Dr. Christopher Shade continued the conversation around rapid intervention, delivery systems, and brain recovery.
Brady Salcido from Freedom Practice Coaching spoke about something that functional medicine often struggles to address openly: how to actually operationalize and communicate these programs in a way that patients understand and commit to.
Because having a breakthrough model of care is only valuable if patients can access it.
We also heard from Dr. Lissa Rankin, who shared insights from her upcoming book Relationsick on trauma, over-functioning, chronic stress, and the toll they take on the brain and nervous system.
And Dr. Michelle Perro brought the conversation upstream to children’s brain development and the environmental and metabolic pressures shaping neurological health from the earliest stages of life.
What This Tour Was Really About
On the surface, these were educational events.
But underneath, something bigger is happening.
We are building a clinical network.
A network of practitioners who understand that cognitive decline is not a single disease.
It is a systems problem.
And systems problems require:
root-cause investigation
coordinated care
shared learning
structured implementation
data
community
That’s the vision behind TruNeura.
Not just software. Not just education. An operating system for precision brain health.
The Signal We’re Seeing Everywhere
Across every stop on the tour, the same themes kept emerging:
Clinicians are no longer satisfied with symptom management alone
Practitioners want structure for delivering cognitive care
Patients are actively searching for clinics that understand reversal-oriented brain health
The demand is growing faster than the infrastructure
That’s why building the network matters now.
Because patients are already looking for answers.
The question is: Will they find clinicians prepared to help them?
Next Stop: San Diego
On May 27th at 7pm, Dr. Kristine Burke and James Maskell will host a special VIP dinner in San Diego for practitioners inside the growing TruNeura ecosystem.
The gathering will take place in the Secret Garden at Wormwood Restaurant, bringing together local San Diego clinicians focused on cognitive decline alongside practitioners arriving for the IFM Annual International Conference, which begins the following day.
More than a networking event, the evening is designed to deepen relationships between practitioners actively building precision brain health programs inside their clinics.
👉 Request to join the VIP dinner here
For years, precision cognitive care lived at the edges of medicine.
Now it’s becoming organized. Connected. Repeatable. Scalable.
And the practitioners building it are starting to find each other.
