This week on The Assignment, with me, Adi Cornish, post of the CNN Political

Briefing Podcast, CNN Political Director, David Chalian.

I will tell you why I love doing what I do and we can talk about how we approach

covering politics, but what draws me to it are the characters, people who wake up

in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror and say I can be leader of

the few worlds are inherently interesting.

Listen to The Assignment with me, Adi Cornish, on your favorite podcast app.

I was just talking to my wife earlier and I told her I'm doing this interview with you.

So I promise to take lots of notes.

I think out of all the things that I've done, all the interviews that I do, I think she's

the most interested in this one.

And let me just start with this, is menopause a bad thing?

No more than you would consider puberty or pregnancy bad things.

As Lisa Musconi, she's an associate professor of neuroscience and the director of the Women's

Brain Initiative at Wild Cornel Medicine.

She published a groundbreaking study in 2021 about what really goes on in the brain during

menopause, and it's far more fascinating than you probably realized.

For starters, her team found that the brain actually gets remodeled during that specific

time of life.

There is this sort of rewiring that goes on, different parts of the brain shrink, others grow,

what she discovered was entirely new.

So, when my research has shown, and other people's research has shown, is that the brain

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