Each episode will focus on one of those states — the distracted brain, the frightened brain, the nourished brain, etc. (While her paper was published in 2021 in Nature Scientific Reports, Mosconi has kept adding women’s brain scans to her database.) She adds that what happens during menopause can have implications for brain health in later years. “Active smoking is a huge ‘no’ for both menopause but also for brain health,” she said. “Physical activity is really supportive of hormonal health and brain health,” she noted.

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Persons: Sanjay Gupta, —, ” Lisa Mosconi, ” Mosconi, Mosconi, Lisa Mosconi, That’s, ”, “, they’re, I’m Organizations: CNN, Weill Cornell Medicine, Nature Locations: New York City