301. Menopause & The Brain: New Breakthroughs in Women’s Health with Dr. Lisa Mosconi
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Women's brain health remains one of the most under researched, underdiagnosed, and undertreated fields of medicine – and someone needs to fix it. Enter today’s brilliant guest, Dr. Lisa Mosconi. She is the director of the Women's Brain Initiative at the Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital.
In this conversation, we explore menopause's effect on the body, brain, and hormones. Dr. Mosconi expertly clarifies what menopause is and isn't with a strong focus on the impact of menopause on brain health, cognitive health, and mental health. Dr. Mosconi walks us through the map of our reproductive health from pre to post menopause, highlighting hallmark signs and symptoms of transitions from each phase to the next.
She shares why the old clinical ways of looking at menopause aren’t effective, and introduces new science and technology that allows women to have more knowledge around how menopause affects the brain. Dr. Mosconi explains the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy, surgical menopause and also provides non-hormonal, lifestyle advice for managing the symptoms of menopause.
It is my dream for everyone to be as healthy as possible, equipped with the knowledge necessary to make empowered, informed decisions about living their best lives. I'm deeply grateful to Dr. Lisa Mosconi for generously sharing her expertise with us, enabling women to navigate menopause with ease and understanding.
We also cover:
(00:00:46) The Menopause Map: Defining Phases & Symptoms
(00:22:13) Risks & Benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy
(00:33:45) Menopause & the Brain: Unveiling New Scientific Developments
(00:48:43) Exploring Surgical Menopause & Non-Hormonal Solutions
(01:02:42) Dr. Mosconi’s Neuroscientific Approach to Helping Women through Menopause
Resources:
• Click here for full show notes
• Instagram: @dr_mosconi
• Read: The Menopause Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi
• Read: New Study Showing Brain's Estrogen Activity Changes During Menopause
• Website: lisamosconi.com
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Moskoni is the director of the Women's Brain Initiative at the Alzheimer's Prevention |
| 0:15.0 | Program at Wyle, Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital. |
| 0:20.6 | Dr. Moskoni was listed as one of the 17 most influential living female scientists by the Times and called the Mona Lisa of neuroscience by L International. |
| 0:31.0 | She is the New York Times best-selling author of the |
| 0:34.2 | menopause brain, the X X-X-Brain, and brain food. It is an absolute pleasure and a |
| 0:40.0 | dream to welcome Dr. Muskoni to the podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | Dr. Moskoni, I am so excited to have you on the podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | You are the absolute expert of menopause. |
| 0:51.6 | We've had so many questions about menopause. Like, what is it? What's it effects on my body, my brain, my hormones, and you've written an entire book on this all about menopause brain. So can you tell me what is |
| 1:07.5 | menopause's effect on our brain? Yes, so I think the best way to answer your question is to first the knowledge that as a society |
| 1:19.7 | we've only understood half of what Manopause is all about, which is really the impact of |
| 1:26.0 | Manopause on reproduction and the woman's fertility. |
| 1:30.6 | And most women, most individuals do have this notion that at some point a woman will stop having a menstrual cycle and that's the end of her ability to have children. |
| 1:43.3 | What is never acknowledged is that Manopause is actually a neurologically active state. |
| 1:51.8 | It's a transition that impacts your brain just as much as it does the ovaries. |
| 1:58.7 | It impacts your body as well in so many ways that are just not really fully acknowledged or addressed, but the impact of |
| 2:06.0 | monopoles on the brain specifically has been completely overlooked in medicine, has been downplayed in medicine and women have been nothing |
| 2:16.1 | short of ridicule for having a reproductive period and having a reproductive life and going through menopause. So the book is really about clarifying what |
| 2:27.3 | Manopause isn't with a strong focus on the impact of menopause on the brain on brain health, cognitive health |
| 2:35.7 | and mental health for all women. I feel like I feel like we have been done such a disservice and we were talking before the |
| 2:45.2 | podcast about what we learn about our bodies and our reproductive health in |
| 2:51.2 | childhood I remember in fifth grade having a 30 minute |
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