The Alzheimer's Prevention Plan for Women: Hormones, Sleep, and Nutrition with Dr. Lisa Mosconi

About this episode

Dr. Mary Claire Haver discusses Alzheimer's prevention strategies for women with Dr. Lisa Mosconi, focusing on hormones, sleep, and nutrition.

In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Lisa Mosconi, a neuroscientist and associate professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Mosconi directs the Alzheimer's Prevention Program, including the NIH-funded Women's Brain Initiative and the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic, and was recently named director of the $50 million Program in Women's Health, Cutting Alzheimer's Risk Through Endocrinology. She is also the author of the bestselling book The Menopause Brain. This conversation is about prevention. Dr. Mosconi has spent decades building the science that shows Alzheimer's risk in women is neither inevitable nor untreatable and that the choices women make in midlife around hormones, sleep, and nutrition have a direct, and measurable, impact on the brain's long-term health. Together, they explore why two thirds of all Alzheimer's patients are women and what role menopause plays in that disparity. Dr. Mosconi explains the difference between the rare genetic mutations that directly cause Alzheimer's, found in roughly 2% of patients, and the risk factors that shape outcomes for the…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Guest: Dr. Lisa Mosconi

Topics covered

• Alzheimer's prevention
• women's health
• hormones
• nutrition
• sleep
• dementia risk

Keywords

• Alzheimer's
• prevention
• women
• hormones
• nutrition
• sleep
• dementia
• risk factors

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NIH, Women's Brain Initiative, Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic

Books & works: The Menopause Brain

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