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Brain-Healthy Cooking with Aspen Brain Institute
November 10, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - December 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Join me and the Aspen Brain Institute for 5 episodes of Brain-Healthy Cooking each Tuesday at 5 pm ET starting November 10. Each week, we Zoom into the kitchen of an expert in brain health to discuss ingredients, cooking techniques, and the latest science. I’ll cook side-by-side with our guests to show you our favorite easy brain-healthy recipes for the holidays.
November 10, 2020: Dr. Drew Ramsey
Drew Ramsey, M.D. is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. His work focuses on clinical excellence, nutritional interventions and creative media. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and in active telemedicine clinical practice based in New York City.
His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lancet Psychiatry, The Today Show, BBC, and NPR and he has given three TEDx talks. He is the co-author of the Antidepressant Food Scale and offers his e-courses on Nutritional Psychiatry education for the public and clinicians. He is on the Advisory Board at Men’s Health, the Editorial Board at Medscape Psychiatry, and is a member of the Well+Good Wellness Council.
He splits his time between New York City and Crawford County, Indiana where he lives with his wife and children on their organic farm and forest.
His books “Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety” (Harperwave 2021), “Eat Complete”, “50 Shades of Kale”, and “The Happiness Diet” explore the connections between mental health and nutrition.
November 17, 2020: Dr. Lisa Mosconi
Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., is the Director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC)/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where she serves as an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine.
Formerly, Dr. Mosconi was an Assistant Professor of the NYU Department of Psychiatry, where she founded and was the director of the Nutrition & Brain Fitness Lab, and served as the director of the Family History of Alzheimer’s disease research program. Dr. Mosconi holds a PhD degree in Neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine, and is a certified Integrative Nutritionist and holistic healthcare practitioner.
Her research is well known regarding the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease in at-risk individuals, especially women, using brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She is passionately interested in how risk of memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease can be mitigated, if not prevented through the combination of appropriate medical care and lifestyle modifications involving diet, nutrition, physical and intellectual fitness.
Dr. Mosconi’s first publication “Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power” (2018) serves as a guide to the latest research that links nutrition and brain health. Her new book “The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease” (2020) was an instant New York Times Bestseller. It is the first book to address cognitive enhancement and Alzheimer’s prevention specifically in women – and to frame brain health as an essential component of Women’s Health.
November 24, 2020: Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai
Ayesha Sherzai, M.D. has a culinary and nutrition background, and teaches people about the most important environmental exposure there is: food. Dr. Sherzai finished her medical residency at Loma Linda University and holds a Masters in advanced sciences from UCSD. She subsequently completed a residency in preventive medicine and neurology and thereafter received a fellowship in vascular neurology from Columbia University, and is currently finalizing her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology at Loma Linda University. Ayesha also has a culinary RX, giving her a unique understanding of nutrition as a natural form of medicine.
Dean Sherzai, M.D., Ph.D. has a leadership background and uses business models to create short and long-term success. He finished his medical and neurology residencies at Georgetown University with a subsequent fellowship in neurodegenerative diseases at the National Institutes of Health, followed by a second fellowship in Dementia and Geriatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He also holds two Masters Degrees; in advanced sciences at UCSD and a Masters in public health from Loma Linda University. Finally he has received a PhD in Healthcare leadership at Loma Linda/Andrews University.
Their book “The Alzheimer’s Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age” details how the brain is like a living universe, directly influenced by nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep and engagement.
December 1, 2020: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
For the past three decades, Eric L. Adams has served the residents of the city of his birth as a police officer, state senator, and coalition builder. In November of 2013, he was elected to represent all of Brooklyn as borough president. Born in Brownsville and educated in the City’s public school system, Eric is committed to ensuring Brooklyn’s bright future by helping each and every Brooklynite reach his or her full potential.
Throughout his career, Eric has been an effective advocate for Brooklyn, bringing people and communities together to create progressive change, and working with both the private and public sectors to invigorate the borough’s economy by encouraging job growth and investment in every neighborhood. Whether his beat was on the street or in the halls of government, Eric has always looked out for Brooklyn’s working families and sought to protect our most vulnerable residents. He believes that government works best when everyone has a chance to be heard, and he has resolved to use his office to provide an opportunity for diverse groups to work together for the common good.
Eric has also served on the board of the Eastern District Counseling Service, an organization assisting former substance abusers to live productive lives without dependency on drugs or alcohol.
Armed with the hard science and real-life stories of those who have transformed their bodies by changing their diet, Adams shares the key steps for a healthy, active life in his new book “Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses”.
December 8, 2020: Dr. Uma Naidoo
Uma Naidoo, M.D. founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
She is considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry.
Her book “This is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More” is the definitive book on eating for mental health. It helps readers use diet to fight depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD and ADHD by teaching the science behind the gut-brain connection.