PreCODE and ReCODE Coaching
Practical help carrying a detailed brain-health protocol into everyday life.
Following a detailed brain health protocol can be difficult to carry into everyday life. I help Apollo Health PreCODE and ReCODE members clarify behavior-related priorities, build realistic routines, and stay engaged with the recommendations provided by their ReCODE-certified practitioner.
My role is implementation. I help you organize what needs to happen, identify practical barriers, and develop sustainable habits around the lifestyle components of your plan. Your ReCODE-certified physician or other practitioner directs medical evaluation, testing, diagnosis, treatment, laboratory interpretation, medication, and supplementation.
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A detailed plan still has to work in real life.
PreCODE and ReCODE members may receive extensive information, clinical recommendations, and lifestyle priorities. The challenge is often not recognizing that the work matters. It is determining where to begin, fitting new routines into an already full life, and adapting when the plan becomes difficult to sustain.
Coaching provides a structured place to turn appropriate recommendations into manageable action. We focus on the behavior change work that happens between medical appointments, while keeping your practitioner's role and your individual circumstances in view. Coaching is designed to reinforce your care plan, not replace or reinterpret medical guidance.
Your ReCODE Practitioner
Evaluates symptoms and medical history.
Orders laboratory and diagnostic tests and interprets the results.
Provides diagnosis and medical treatment.
Directs medication and supplementation.
Determines the treatment plan.
Your ReCODE Coach
Helps organize behavior-related priorities and next steps.
Helps turn recommendations into realistic routines.
Supports the client and care partners with day-to-day implementation.
Supports problem solving, accountability, and sustainable behavior change.
Helps prepare questions and observations to take back to the practitioner.
How I support PreCODE and ReCODE members.
- Identify the lifestyle and behavior-related tasks established by your PreCODE or ReCODE Report.
- Organize priorities so the protocol feels more manageable.
- Provide education on the seven pillars of the PreCODE/ReCODE Program: nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, cognitive and social engagement, toxin reduction, and supplementation. (Individualized supplement decisions remain under the direction of your ReCODE practitioner.)
- Help to build daily routines and review progress. Adapt implementation strategies as daily life changes.
- Address practical barriers, setbacks, competing responsibilities, and changes in capacity.
- Support a care partner’s involvement while preserving the client’s dignity, preferences, and autonomy.
- Prepare questions and observations for conversations with your ReCODE practitioner or other qualified professionals.
- With your permission, communicate with members of your ReCODE care team about implementation progress and questions that may require clinical follow-up.
This coaching may be a fit if you...
- Are an Apollo Health PreCODE or ReCODE member.
- Have a ReCODE-certified healthcare professional directing the medical components of your plan. (A ReCODE-certified practitioner is required in order to work with me.)
- Want help translating lifestyle and behavior-related recommendations into everyday routines.
- Feel overwhelmed by the number of tasks or uncertain about where to begin.
- Want accountability, practical problem-solving, and support adapting the plan over time.
- Would benefit from including a spouse, family member, or care partner in selected coaching conversations.
NOTE: If you have new, worsening, sudden, or functionally significant cognitive symptoms, seek appropriate medical evaluation. Coaching does not replace that evaluation.
What happens next.
INITIAL CONSULTATION
We discuss your PreCODE/ReCODE goals, current challenges, the medical support already in place, and whether coaching is an appropriate fit.
COACHING PRIORITIES
If we decide to work together, we identify the behavior-related priorities that need support and determine a manageable starting point.
IMPLEMENTATION
Coaching sessions provide structure for building routines, reviewing what is working, and adapting strategies as circumstances change.
Experienced support for the work between appointments.
I am Allison Blankenship, DHSc, a Brain Health Behaviorist and Apollo Certified ReCODE 2.0 Coach. I was one of the first coaches certified by Apollo Health back in 2018. My doctoral research at George Washington University examined the benefits of health coaching for people with Mild Cognitive Impairment who were participating in the ReCODE program. I currently facilitate Apollo Health’s monthly group coaching program for PreCODE members, as well as a separate monthly group for Apollo-certified coaches who live on the PreCODE Program.
Learn More About AllisonFrequently Asked Questions
Yes. PreCODE and ReCODE coaching clients need a ReCODE-certified physician or other healthcare professional to direct medical evaluation, testing, treatment, laboratory interpretation, medication, and supplementation. We can discuss your current care structure during the initial consultation.
I do not provide medical interpretation. I can help you organize the behavior-related tasks identified by your report and care team, prepare questions for your clinician, and build practical routines for implementing appropriate recommendations.
Yes. A spouse, family member, or other care partner may participate when that support is helpful and the client agrees. We clarify roles and keep the client’s preferences, dignity, and autonomy at the center of the process.
No. Cognitive outcomes vary and are influenced by many factors. Coaching supports implementation, problem-solving, and sustainable behavior change, but it cannot guarantee prevention, reversal, or any particular cognitive outcome.
Looking for official information?
PreCODE and ReCODE are Apollo Health programs based on the Bredesen Protocol. For current information about program features and membership, visit Apollo Health.
Make the protocol more manageable.
If you are a PreCODE or ReCODE member and need practical support carrying lifestyle and behavior-related recommendations into daily life, an initial consultation is a calm place to begin.