On this episode of the Reseter podcast, have I got a crazy treat for you.

I have brought you Lisa Moskoni and this conversation for all of my peri menopause,

menopause and post menopopausal friends out there.

This is the brain conversation I've been dying to bring you.

So let me tell you who Lisa is and what you're about to hear. So hopefully you've heard of Lisa, but if you haven't,

she has written the XX brain and her most recent book is called the menopause brain and she is a neuroscientist and she is in

deep with research specifically around all aspects of the female brain.

The most current research she's been doing

is on the menopausal brain.

So I have been dying to bring her to you all

to really dive into some key helpful pieces of information we can all use to navigate this crazy

brain experience that many of us have as we go through the perimenopause and menopausal journey.

So with that said, here's what you're going to hear.

So for starters, we talked about three major times in a woman's life where there is a

neuronal pruning that happens. What that means is that the brain

actually starts to get rid of what no longer serves it and a new brain is formed.

So many of these three times of life will be familiar to you.

It's puberty, pregnancy, and pereminopause.

But what is fascinating about what Lisa and I

discuss in this is that when you look at puberty,

there's a very specific reason the brain needs to prune itself and grow

bigger. We talk about that. When we look at pregnancy same thing. Very specific

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