Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband, and five-star out meditation

studio. I'm Patricia Carpus, your host along with my co-host every other week, Muse co-founder,

Ariel Garden. We're wishing you all calm and peace as we go through this very scary coronavirus situation.

Wherever you are, we hope you're taking good care of yourself.

I've personally been listening to meditations in our stress and calm collections,

and my two favorites for right now are Let Things Be by Ashley Turner and Love and Equanimity by Kate Johnson.

And if you haven't listened to last week's podcast on how we can be more resilient during these times, you may want to check that one out.

We are sending out giant virtual hugs to everyone. Now over to Ariel for this week's encore episode.

Today, I have an amazing guest, Dr. Lisa Musconi.

She's a neuroscientist and a researcher on the extraordinary relationships between the brain and food.

She's both extremely well-burst in the brain and how it works,

so hear about her background of research in Alzheimer's and other work, and she also has a degree in

nutrition. And so her particular area of expertise is understanding the intersection between the two.

So today, Lisa is going to tell us all about our brain on food, what to eat, what to avoid, and how to

supercharge our mental spaces. Welcome, Lisa. Hi, thank you so much for helping me.

My absolute pleasure. Can you start by giving us a little bit of background on yourself and how you

got into this work? Sure. My background is really that both of my parents are nuclear physicists, like both of them,

which is quite a thing.

Growing up their way was very interesting.

And my mom used to teach nuclear physics to students who then transferred to medicine,

and they wanted to work in nuclear medicine.

So I was immediately drawn toward that field, which is really code for brain imaging.

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