Hello and welcome back to the FoodMedic 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 Musconi, 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.

I'm a neuroscientist.

So 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 in, I really grew into science. And I have a dual PhD in neuroscience and nuclear medicine. I moved to New York during my PhD and I transferred to NYU, NYU Medical.

And then I was hired as a faculty member at 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, is 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

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