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The goop Podcast

How Does Menopause Change Your Brain? (with neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi)

The goop Podcast

Goop, Inc. and Audacy

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.47K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gwyneth is joined by Lisa Mosconi, author of The Menopause Brain. Mosconi is an associate professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the director of its Women’s Brain Initiative and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program. Today, Mosconi explains how hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause can impact cognitive health and shares some of the clinical trials and brain-imaging work her lab is doing to better understand this stage of life. They about the foods that can support brain health at any stage of life and Mosconi’s perspective on why menopause can be seen as an opportunity, particularly from an evolutionary standpoint. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you are pioneering anything or introducing new ideas to the culture, you get

0:08.8

criticized. You do? Yeah, did you hear about that? I didn't find the one.

0:14.0

I found someone I respected, and we made it the one.

0:17.0

In the sort of longing kind of view of love,

0:19.0

people understand each other as if by magic.

0:22.0

Nothing itself is addictive on one hand.

0:25.0

And on the other hand, everything could be addictive

0:27.0

if there's an emptiness in that person that needs to be filled.

0:30.0

I now know that nobody changes until they change their energy and when you change your energy you change your life.

0:37.0

I'm Gwyneth Peltro. This is the Goop, bringing together thought leaders, culture

0:44.5

changers, creatives, founders and CEOs, scientists, doctors, healers, and

0:50.1

seekers. Here to start conversations, because simply asking questions and listening has the

0:55.8

power to change the way we see the world.

0:59.3

Here we go.

1:01.6

Lisa Moskoni is a leading expert in women's brain health.

1:05.0

She is an associate professor of neurology at Cornell,

1:09.0

where she's also the director of its Women's Brain Initiative

1:12.0

and the Alzheimer's Prevention Program.

1:15.0

She is a New York Times best-selling author and her latest book is called The Menopause

1:20.0

brain.

1:21.0

Today Lisa explains how hormonal shifts during pereminopause and menopause can impact cognitive health and how many of the symptoms including hot flashes, brain fog, depression and anxiety start in the brain.

1:34.0

We talked about how menopause is still overlooked and understeadied

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