Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host as always Dr. Hazel Wallace.

I'm a medical doctor, nutritionist, author and founder of the Food Medic.

It's the final episode of the season. We usually do 10 episodes per season, but I just had to squeeze in this last episode.

And it is not to be missed. I am absolutely delighted and honoured to be joined by Dr. Lisa Moscone, who is the director of the Women's Brain Initiative,

where she serves as an associate professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology.

In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Department of Psychiatry. She's also author of Brain Food and the XX Brain.

As someone who is very passionate about female health, I am in awe of the work that Lisa does in paving the way for Women's Brain Health.

I felt so inspired as a woman and a health practitioner after this conversation, and I hope you will be too.

I think I would just love by starting to ask you, you know, who you are, what you do and what you're passionate about.

You do so many things. So... Okay. I am a neuroscientist. I'm a brain scientist by training.

I was born and raised in Florence, and my parents are nuclear physicists, both of them.

So I grew up and I really grew into science. And I have a dual PhD in neuroscience in nuclear medicine.

I moved to New York during my PhD and they transferred to NYU and NYU Medical.

And then I was hired as a faculty member in NYU right away, and I just...

I moved to Wild Cornell Medicine in New York four years ago now, where I launched the Women's Brain Initiative,

which is really my passion project, it's my... It's my baby, in a way. It's a research program that is entirely and unapologetically dedicated to Women's brains,

and Women's Brain Health, and to understand in how Brain Health plays out differently in women than in men, which has been incredibly rewarding.

And as I was mentioning, just a minute ago, I just took on the role of director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic.

So we're now really... We have the research and we're able to apply the research to clinical practice by really having these two different entities work very closely together and with Women's Health.

So I am as busy as a human being can be, I think, and working on a new book, so I'm also writing at the same time. And I'm a mom.

So yeah, I'm busy. You are doing that all the time.

Well, I really appreciate you giving us your time today, and I mean, it's so fascinating reading the research that you're doing.

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