Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast,. You know it's widely believed that Alzheimer's

disease and whether or not we get it is beyond our control.

But my guest today begs to differ. On this episode of the Dr. Gundry podcast I'll

speak with Lisa Moskoni, the director of the

Women's Brain Initiative at Wild Cornell Medical College in New York City. In her new

book, The XX Brain or if you're trying to remember it, the double X brain, Lisa says genetics

don't affect women's chances of developing dementia nearly as much as her hormonal status, lifestyle, and

medical report card. And she's working to get the word out. Lisa, welcome to the program.

Thank you so much for having me.

So what inspired you to write, The XX Brain?

What kind of research went into writing this?

Oh, a lot of research.

Yes.

So I got inspired, for lack of a better word,

by my family, because I have a family history of Alzheimer's disease that really

affects the women in my family.

So my grandmother was one of four siblings, three women and one man, so three sisters and one brother,

and all three sisters developed Alzheimer's disease and died of dementia,

whereas the brother did not, even though they were the same age.

So that was quite a shocking experience for us as a family,

and I really wanted to better understand what causes dementia in general and what causes dementia specifically in women.

And of course my family is a very small data set, but then I started looking at the bigger picture and it turns out

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