Lisa Mosconi
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Oct 21, 2026
Mindy PelzGUEST
Because if you look at the brain changes that happen to women as estrogen goes down, we know there's a pruning away of neurons from the brain.
Mindy PelzGUEST
Lisa Mosconi taught us that.
Mindy PelzGUEST
But do you know what happens when these neurons prune away? They give a byproduct of a ketone.
Mindy PelzGUEST
Why would the body prune neurons away that it no longers needs, and then in that process, give the brain more ketones? Because the preferred fuel source for the post-menopausal brain is ketones over glucose.
Beth McDougallGUEST
And then you wanna keep your hormones optimized.
Beth McDougallGUEST
There was a really good study from Lisa Mosconi's lab that just showed, um, came out last year, and showed, for example, that, that as a woman's estrogen levels decline in perimenopause, the certain areas of the brain that are associated with memory start to express more and more and more estrogen receptors in order for the brain to kind of like soak up as much estrogen-
Dina De LaurentiisHOST
Mm-hmm
Beth McDougallGUEST
... as possible.
David PerlmutterGUEST
So the idea of even reducing Alzheimer's risk by intervening with estrogen replacement or hormone replacement therapy is ongoing.
David PerlmutterGUEST
Lisa Mosconi, uh, is actually heading up that trial.
David PerlmutterGUEST
It's happening right now.
David PerlmutterGUEST
We'll get our answer.
Jim KwikHOST
I fill it with water, and I just make sure I get through all eight of them throughout the day.
Jim KwikHOST
And so also, we've done episodes, if you wanna refer back to past episodes where we talk to Dr. Lisa Mosconi.
Jim KwikHOST
She talked about how just being one, two, or 3% dehydrated could dramatically affect your reaction time and your thinking speed.
Jim KwikHOST
I mean, if you want greater reaction time and thinking speed, upwards of 30%, stay hydrated.
Jessica KassisGUEST
You know, we just need to try and work on a little bit of HRT and see if we can get things moving again." But yeah, it has something to do with the estrogen receptors.
Jessica KassisGUEST
There's actually a, a brilliant scientist in New York, her name's Lisa Mosconi, who does a lot of work on this, and has shown images of the brain with estrogen and without estrogen.
Jessica KassisGUEST
Like, you remember those commercials, like, this is your brain on drugs, this is your brain-
Meg BearHOST
Yeah
Tamsen FadalHOST
That's one misunderstanding that keeps so many women from even considering what could be happening.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Then neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Mosconi is gonna talk about our brains.
Tamsen FadalHOST
She is brilliant.
Tamsen FadalHOST
I told her I'd started feeling sharper again recently and some of my confidence and memory were coming back, and then asked, "Is this real? Like, could this really be happening?" If brain fog has scared you, I really want you to hear that conversation.
7 MINS LATER
Tamsen FadalHOST
I was still getting my period, so menopause, it wasn't even a word on my radar.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Meanwhile, though, I was struggling to find words and wondering what was happening in my brain.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Dr. Lisa Mosconi is a neuroscientist who studies exactly that.
Tamsen FadalHOST
When we sat down, she showed me brain scans from before, during, and then after the menopause transition.
David PerlmutterGUEST
We'll talk about that in just a moment.
David PerlmutterGUEST
So Dr. Lisa Mosconi is currently, uh, engaged in research in which, uh, women premenopause are targeted, uh, with, uh, hor- hormone replacement therapy, and then we'll determine who developed Alzheimer's and who did not.
David PerlmutterGUEST
We know of a recent study, uh, that was published several months ago in postmortem analysis that looked at the changes in the brains, whether those were Alzheimer's-like changes or not, and showed a dramatic, uh, lower rate of those changes in women who were post-hysterectomy and received, uh, estrogen, uh, therapy, uh, estrogen replacement therapy.
David PerlmutterGUEST
No, they did not give them progesterone post-hysterectomy.
Sharon MaloneGUEST
Why? Because nobody looked for them.
Pamela BrownHOST
Is it Lisa Mosconi or who?
Sharon MaloneGUEST
Dr. Lisa Mosconi.
Pamela BrownHOST
Yeah, Dr. Lisa Mosconi.
Pamela BrownHOST
Amazing.
Sharon MaloneGUEST
She is, she is amazing, and she is doing a lot of the research on women's brains.
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Pamela BrownHOST
Mm-hmm.
Sharon MaloneGUEST
Why is that? Not 'cause we live longer.
Matt LachmanHOST
Yeah.
Julie LabanzGUEST
If you, if listeners wanna know more, the book The Menopause Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi, she did a ton of research on menopause, and this is one of the things that she was able to demonstrate through her book.
Julie LabanzGUEST
You can, like, see the brain, uh, images, the scans of how the brain matter sort of shifts.
Matt LachmanHOST
Mm.
Bryn Pane'e BurkhartGUEST
If I get curious about something, I just, like, go digging.
Bryn Pane'e BurkhartGUEST
And I started to read books, like Why Estrogen Matters and The Menopause Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi.
Bryn Pane'e BurkhartGUEST
Um, I was introduced to, you know, you've had many guests on your podcast, like Kelly Casperson and obviously Stacy Vonda Wright.
Bryn Pane'e BurkhartGUEST
Um, I was reading.
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