Hi, Shleen. It's your mom. And I want to tell you I love your podcast and I want you to know I have actually listened to quite a few of them.

Yes, dad and I love to hear the one where you trick us and you always trick us every time.

And we are on the podcast and we never know it till we hear it.

But so many of the podcasts really hit home for us as I'm sure they hit home for a lot of people and touch a lot of people's lives.

I hope you had a great birthday and I want you to know what my favorite podcast is and of course it is.

How to stop being late or get someone else to be on time, especially since I never tell your dad what time we are leaving on a playing light to somewhere wherever we're going.

It's my life.

Never to get him to someplace on time so no matter when we're walking out the door, he never knows what time it is and he doesn't want to watch anyway, so what does it matter?

I hope you really hope you had a great time today and I'm thinking about you and love you and miss you so much.

And the whole family. Bye.

Today we're talking about your brain. Hey there by the way, my name is Shaline Johnson and I care about my brain.

I care about your brain. I care about dementia and Alzheimer's and all the things that we can do to improve the quality of our life.

And today we've got an incredible guest. Her name is Lisa Masconey, Dr Lisa Masconey and she is the director of the women's brain initiative.

We are talking about the difference between men and women's brains and all the things that we should and need to be doing ASAP to live a better life to avoid getting Alzheimer's.

So much of this disease is preventable through lifestyle, but yo, there's a difference between his brain and her brain and today that's what we're talking about here on the Shaline show.

Welcome to the Shaline show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness trainer and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

As you know, we've had lots of doctors and scientists on the show who've talked about many of the studies that help us to understand like how do we get better?

How do we take control of our health? And unfortunately most of those studies look at men because it's easier for those grants to be approved.

It's more challenging to conduct a study that involves women because we have to factor in for the controls related to our cycles. So we're kind of a complicated beast.

But Dr Lisa Masconey has persisted and pushed and her research is very specific to the difference between men and women's brains.

And today you're going to learn from this very brilliant woman how our brains are different and why we need to take these things into consideration.

So just a little bit about her background. First of all, she is based in New York City. She is an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Department of Psychiatry.

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