What a family it's episode 102 of the Genius Life. Welcome aboard.

What's going on everybody. Hope you guys are all doing well that you're all safe and healthy and uh,

warm and well fed and have got plenty of toilet paper to go around. Um, I'm super excited for

this episode of the show in which I interview uh, one of my friends a neuroscientist and a leader

in the field of Alzheimer's and dementia prevention. Dr Lisa Moscone. Dr. Moscone is the director of

the Women's Brain Initiative and Associate Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Wild Cornel

Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she serves as an associate professor of

neuroscience in neurology and radiology. She's also an adjunct faculty member at the Department

of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and at the Department of Nutrition at NYU Steinhard

School of Nutrition and Public Health. So this girl's got some credentials, yo, and uh, I'm really

excited because she also is a newly minted New York Times bestselling author. She came out with her

first book Brain Food, which came out around the same time as my book Genius Foods. Um, and that was

a great book, uh, but her latest book, I think, is just a game changer in so many ways because it

focuses squarely on the topic of women's brains, which is super important for a number of reasons,

not at least of which the fact that women are at double the risk of developing um, Alzheimer's

disease and other forms of dementia as men. For every male with Alzheimer's disease, you have two

women and of course, you know, I was personally affected by this. The fact that my mom had dementia.

So her book is super important and um, and it's called the XX brain. And as soon as it came out,

it became a New York Times bestseller because it's such a unique book and she is so smart and sweet

and lovely. And uh, I just had such a blast talking to her about all things prevention. We discuss

her favorite brain antioxidants and where to find them in food, the value of being properly hydrated

for the brain and how to make sure that you're properly hydrated, the brain dangers of um,

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