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Maria Shriver wants that number to climb—and for women to start thinking about their brains decades before symptoms show up. “When people talk about living longer, you’re seeing a lot about people in the gym,” Shriver said Thursday at the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum in New York. “But what about their brains?” Shriver founded the [Women's Alzheimer's Movement](https://thewomensalzheimersmovement.org/) and co-founded the Comprehensive Women's Health and Research Center at Cleveland Clinic. She sat down with TIME deputy editor Kelly Conniff to talk about what women need to understand about brain health, and why the conversation can't wait until later in life. She became passionate about brain health when her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2003\. At the time, Shriver said, there wasn’t much information available to help families understand the disease or prepare for how their lives would change. She approached figuring that out as both a journalist and a daughter, while watching family members grapple with the diagnosis in different ways. Her kids adjusted easily, she recalled, simply accepting the grandfather in front of them as he was. She had a harder time. The man she saw didn't match the father in her memory. Her mother, meanwhile, was losing something else entirely—a spouse, a confidant, a partner. More than two decades later, scientists [know more about how to detect Alzheimer’s early and what may help reduce the risk](https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/alzheimers-and-dementia/preventing-alzheimers-disease-what-do-we-know). Yet a striking disparity remains: Women account for about [two-thirds of diagnoses](https://www.alz.org/getmedia/ef8f48f9-ad36-48ea-87f9-b74034635c1e/alzheimers-facts-and-figures.pdf). One growing area of research focuses on how the brain changes during menopause, and whether interventions during that period could reduce Alzheimer’s risk, Shriver said. It’s unclear whether [hormone therapy](https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/08/study-ties-estrogen-based-menopausal-hormone-therapy-to-lower-al.html), for example, could help. Yet “there’s more to women’s health than menopause,” Shriver added. Brain health, including mental health, is important to talk about throughout every stage of a woman’s life. She pointed to the recent trial of Lindsay Clancy as evidence that women are talking more openly about maternal mental health. She recently had a conversation with six or seven other mothers who discussed the case and began sharing their own emotional and postpartum experiences. Clancy, a Massachusetts mother, was tried on charges of killing her three young children in 2023\. Her attorneys argued that she was not criminally responsible because she was experiencing[ postpartum psychosis](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK544304/), a rare psychiatric emergency distinct from postpartum depression. Prosecutors maintained that she understood her actions were wrong. The trial ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. “The fact that we’re talking about postpartum depression, the fact that we’re talking about maternal health,” Shriver said, represents a “huge advancement in my lifetime.” The open discussion is part of the shift Shriver wants to see across brain health generally—starting with the basics. You shouldn’t have to overhaul your life to take care of yourself. Exercise, sleep, a decent diet, real social connection, and staying mentally engaged all move the needle on brain health. Shriver herself meditates twice daily to manage stress. Still, she acknowledges these kinds of activities won’t all fit into everyone’s day. They might sound particularly unrealistic to women juggling busy careers or young kids, or taking care of their aging parents. When her four children were young, she said, she would have snapped at any well-intended suggestions to meditate: “You’re out of your mind. Go away. I didn’t even go to the bathroom.” While it would be ideal if advances arrived even more quickly, Shriver sees the growing attention to women’s health and ongoing research as evidence that change is unfolding in real time. “I’m fully convinced they’ll find a cure for Alzheimer’s,” she said. _The TIME100 Health Leadership Forum was presented by the American Cancer Society, Kite—a Gilead Sciences company, Insulet, Musely, and NMDP._ ## Transcript I just want to say I'm really excited to be here because if somebody had told me five years ago or three years ago that women's brain health would be the closer at the time, uh, health forum, I would have been like, that's a goal. I don't think it's going to happen. So I'm really thrilled that we're talking about women's brain health. We're talking about Alzheimer's and women's health in general. That's a big jump for women's health. So Bravo. Yeah. Well, I'm glad there's so many men here too. Yeah. Well, I want I want to start with kind of the beginning of your journey, right. And, you know, your involvement with Alzheimer's began when your dad was diagnosed and I believe it was 2003. Correct. What was your initial reaction and how did you manage your reaction to that process and learning about the condition? I don't know how I manage my reaction, but my reaction was like, what is this? And how do we fix it and what do we know? And of course, I entered that, you know, this 25 years ago, I entered a very dark space where I was told by Bye, everybody. This was a natural form of aging. You were powerless and just kind of go along with it. There was nothing out there to help. And, you know, you were kind of on your own. And that's been the story, I think, for so many people who've had a loved one who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. So I originally approached it at the same time he was diagnosed, I became first lady of California. So I ran a big women's conference there. I started doing programming on it. I wrote a children's book on it to try to explain it to myself as a child of Alzheimer's and others. And I embarked on a big five part series with HBO. So I tried to approach it as a journalist. What is this? What's it like for caregivers? What's it like for children? What is it like for doctors and scientists? And at the time, I was told that there's a solution or a cure in a vial in a lab somewhere that will be available sometime really soon. And so that was 25 years ago. And, um, much has changed. And I'm very hopeful. I've continued to be very hopeful, but I've also continued to learn that there is so much we didn't know about the disease back then that we know today. And so I think I approached it as a journalist, as a daughter, as an only girl. I approached it with brothers who thought that I would do it all. And. And it sounds like you did a lot of things. Well, I did a lot of kind of reporting for myself and for them and kind of for the outside world, but they really stepped up. I learned that you have to be in constant communication with your siblings. If this comes to your house that you're a parent, um, experiences a different journey. My mother had a very different experience and a different reaction to her husband having Alzheimer's than I did. And my brothers did. And then my children did. I learned a lot from watching my children just accept my father in the present moment. I struggled with the person that was in front of me versus the person who had been in front of me my whole life. And I think my mother struggled with the person who had been her spouse, her confidante, her partner in life. So there were 3 or 4 different struggles going on in the same house. Right. Is there a persistent myth about Alzheimer's that you wish people would stop repeating that that wouldn't be in the news anymore? Well, that it's a disease of old age and there's nothing you can do about it. Mhm. We now know Alzheimer's is a disease of midlife, that women are disproportionately impacted by it, that maybe half of the cases we now think could be or may be preventable due to lifestyle choices. There are things on the horizon, and I say that not ten years from now, but a couple years from now, or even now, that didn't exist two, three, four years ago. So I think there's a lot of excitement in the space. There's a lot of hope in the space. The space since I've been at it has been transformed. So we now talk about women as being at the epicenter of this disease. That was not in the zeitgeist at all. We now talk about lifestyle, and I see some people here who the women's Alzheimer's movement has funded, um, who have been impactful in those lifestyle studies that have been really helpful. I think when we're talking about brain health, and that's a whole new kind of conversation that has bubbled to the top in the last 4 or 5 years. Brain health people, you know, exercising for brain health, eating for brain health, sleeping for brain health, socializing for brain health, getting hearing aids. So they, uh, have a better brain health. There's a lot going on in that space that I think brings hope. And I think just letting people know that they have power and that they have an ability to perhaps delay, prevent, or eliminate this altogether is a zeitgeist change. Absolutely. And I wanted to ask, you know, if you were running the health care system in this country, what's the first thing you would change. I know it would be. It would be great if you were in charge. Maria. Yes. What's the first thing you would change about how America a lot. I could say on this subject. Sure. I'm not going to say on this subject because I know we're here to talk about women's brain health on this subject, so I. But but what would what would you say? I know, I know where we're going. Uh, I, I would. Put women's health, uh, you know, really front and center. I would fund if I were president, maybe I would go there first. Sure. If I were president, I would have an agenda that really focused on women's health, because I think we heard a little bit earlier, women do live longer and they live in really poor health longer. And I think we're way behind when it comes to understanding a woman's trajectory. How do women process medication? How do they handle the different Alzheimer's drugs that are out there differently? How do they age differently? What is a post-menopausal woman compared to a menopausal, a perimenopausal? What is the effect of birth control? What is the maternal brain. What effect does pregnancy actually have on the brain? I would really bring women's health up to parity. We tried to do that with President Biden, with the Women's Health and Research Initiative, and I would implement that again. I would also implement a lot of caregiving work and caregiving relief for the 60 million Americans who are caring for people who have to leave their jobs, as we saw, to drive people to appointments. They get people back from having operations into their homes immediately have to care for loved ones. 13 million people are doing this in the Alzheimer's and dementia space with very little help. It's expensive, it's time consuming, and we don't have an agenda for any of these issues. Right. It was a great answer. Thank you. You're welcome. I want to go back to one. I could keep going, but. I want to go back to one stat and I'm going to read it because I think this stat is just an incredible one. And I'd love for you to talk about it. Women are nearly twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer's, yet most women don't actually know that piece of information. You spent years arguing this and saying Alzheimer's is a women's health issue. How is the medical establishment failed women with this? Well, I. Don't know that. I think, you know, I look at myself as a as a messenger of that message. So I take responsibility as well that that that figure came out of a status report we did this year with the Cleveland Clinic on the state of women's health. And less than 20% of women knew that they were more susceptible to Alzheimer's. But they also said that once they found that out, they wanted to take necessary steps to change that. So that told me that they needed to get the information. And once they got the information, they would change how they're operating in their day to day lives. But the media landscape is fractured. People don't trust a lot of health information that's coming out. They don't get it. They they turn now to AI or they're on, you know, social media to get information. So we have to do a better job, I think, with that message. Um, as I said, when I came into the Alzheimer's space, women weren't even in the language. There was no discussion of women. And when I started asking people about women, they were like, no, it doesn't impact them differently at all. But it turns out, of course, nobody had studied that. Nobody had looked at that. Nobody had studied, uh, women's health. And, um, and then I think helping women understand what happens to them at midlife is a really whole other conversation to be had for women. And women don't really understand all the symptoms of menopause. They don't understand that menopause is an inflection point, uh, for Alzheimer's. And we're trying to, you know, do research on that. Is it a definitive thing? How does the brain change at menopause? We can now see that it does. Uh, what do we have to give to women? Um, are hormones, you know, really effective in preventing Alzheimer's or not? There's research going on there now under Lisa Mosconi, who the Women's Alzheimer's movement also funded. And we need a lot to catch up on. So women go to their primary doctors and they don't get a lot of this information. So we have to enlist doctors in educating women, particularly women at midlife, that they're susceptible to Alzheimer's and that there are things that they can do. But we have not done as well with that message as I would have hoped. Right. Well, if every woman here watching us could remember one thing about protecting her brain, what would you say? I don't know if I can boil it down to one thing, but I think, you know, when I talked to lots of doctors and researchers, they'll say to me, if you could say one thing, say exercise, say exercise, because it builds Bdnf in the brain. It keeps you moving and it helps in all of these kind of other issues that people might be dealing with if it's diabetes or depression or heart health. Um, you know, uh, other people might say diet. Other people would say it's sleep. Other people would say it's social engagement. Other people would say it's oral health. So there's all of these things. So when I talk about a brain healthy lifestyle, it's really talking about all of those verticals. So you can't just sleep well and eat like, right. You can't just engage and never sleep. You can't just sit around and never exercise. So I think getting into the, you know, kind of national conversation or getting restaurants involved in what is a brain healthy, uh, meal. Uh, we need more research. Is it plant medicine? Is it keto? Is it Mediterranean? There's a lot of debate about that as well. Um, and then I think, you know, it's also, I think engaging women particularly, but, you know, everybody in the conversation about what works for their body. Um, but I think exercise is universal. Sleep is universal and good food, good diet is universal. And everything's connected. Everything a little bit of everything. Yeah. And I think, but just kind of having people think about what is a brain healthy lifestyle, you can now go into restaurants and see this is a heart health menu or this is gluten free and all of that sort of stuff. So I would hope that eventually we would say this is a brain healthy menu, or we would have primary doctors who talk to you at midlife about your brain health ask you, have you done a cognitive assessment? Are you interested in cognitive assessment and begin that at a much earlier age? People think, I can get to that when I'm 60 or 70, and we know that Alzheimer's is in the brain for 20 years before you're symptomatic. So I'm trying to get people to think about this supercomputer that we all have that manages our day to day life, the probably the lives of many people that depend on us and how to begin to think about it as something you care for, that you nourish, that you nurture, and that you want to help get to 50 to 60 to 70. When people talk about living longer, you know, we're seeing a lot about people in the gym and they're taking this and they're looking big and they're doing that. But what about their brains? That's really not a part of the conversation. So you don't want to, you know, get to my age and not have a brain. And so I think it's a really scary thing for people, but I'm trying to make it hopeful. I'm trying to make it fun. I'm trying to make it accessible. And we have a huge issue, obviously, in this country with people trying to get into neurologists, trying to when we talk about, you know, there is no neurologists in rural places and there's year waits to see them today. So I think, you know, people are much more aware of Alzheimer's and other dementias today than they were when I started. They do know, you know about. They're more aware of the brain. They're more interested in the brain, but I don't think they actually know what they can do right. To quote, train the brain. Well, in the interest of that and trying to make this fun and make this something that people can work on, what are what are three things you do every day to, to promote your own brain health? Can you give us some examples? Well, for me, I meditate every day. Um, in the morning. In the morning. How long in the afternoon? Like in the morning, ten, 15 minutes, the afternoon, like 510 depending where I am and what I'm doing. Um, so I do that, I try to manage my stress much better than I did when I had, you know, for children eight and under. Um, so I'm more mindful of that. I'm more mindful of what I eat. I stay really socially engaged. I continue to try to learn things. Um, I continue to try to be out and about, um, so that I'm not isolated, that I'm not, um, not learning. So I take an active role in my own learning, in my own sleep, in my own health, that I don't, that I did put on the wayside when I was, you know, raising young children. And I think that's a big challenge for many people at midlife, right? They're they're running, they're working, they're raising kids. And so often women at midlife are taking care of aging parents. And I was in that place. And it would have been almost impossible if you told me to meditate then. Right. I would have been like, you're out of your mind. Go away. It was like, I don't even I can't even go to the bathroom, you know? So I think realistic being mindful of where people are and trying to say anything is better than nothing. And that this is a really important, um, you know, organ and this is something maybe you can't see, but you can take care of. This is something you maybe don't understand, but that you know, that it has to be fed. It has to be nurtured. It has to be Gotten in shape the same way that your muscles do. It's another muscle for. You to take. Care of, attention. To get extra. Care, and you can make wherever you are in the field, you know, five minutes, ten minutes, and you can make small changes. And I think that that's happening. I really do think it's happening. Yeah. Well, and I think we're in the midst of a whole revolution, as I said, when it comes to women's health. And I think that's an exciting moment. Uh, we've gone from people like going, what is women's health to like, oh, women's health. Uh, but there's more to women's health than menopause and there's more to women's health. You know, I think kind of making sure that people understand the breadth of women's health and a woman's lifespan. We talked about ovaries. We can talk about, you know, cancer, we talk about endometriosis and M.S. and all of the things to disproportionately impact women. I think that's a big conversation that the nation has to have. It's a political issue. I think primary doctors. I hope medical schools will begin to teach women's health and not spend ten minutes on menopause and not even have women's health departments. That's why I'm really proud of the work at the Cleveland Clinic, where we opened a comprehensive women's health center for women at midlife and beyond to try to connect the dots of a woman's life so that in her last 10 or 15 years, she's not left on her own devices. Right? She's having someone take care of her. She's having someone take care of her. Well, I want. What we all deserve. It's true. And with that in mind, I want to end on a positive note. I'm wondering if. It's all positive. Well, good, isn't it? Try to be really positive here. It's intense stuff, right. And I think I'm sure it's making people reflect. But I'm wondering if you could share with us a piece of information, research something that gives you hope in kind of this fight for women's health. Brain health, Alzheimer's. Is there something out there that you've all heard? All of it. I think the fact that we're having this conversation About women's brain health at time is huge. Yeah, the fact that we're having a conversation that women's health is in the zeitgeist, it's huge. Um, you know, the fact that, you know, people are talking about menopause, that people are talking about perimenopause, that people are talking about maternal health, people are talking about postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety. I was sitting at a table the other night with about 6 or 7, 30 some year old mothers. And they were talking about, obviously, this recent trial going on, and they were talking about their own reaction to having children and their own emotional health, their own brain health, their own postpartum depression, and saying, you know, nobody was checking on me. People just talked to me about the baby. Nobody asked me anything. And I'm screaming, one minute, I'm crying one minute. When was the last time somebody when did they start talking to you about how you were feeling? And I was like, I think 60, 65. So things are changing. Yeah. I want to say. That just you having that conversation. Conversations are are transformative changes. We're not where anybody wants to be. Everybody up here talked about wanting to be further along in their respective places, but I've been around long enough to be able to see and say that this change has been happening in real time. And I especially say that to young women. You know, the fact you have 4 or 5 months of maternity leave, if you're. That's great, I had none. The fact that we're talking about postpartum depression, the fact that we're talking about maternal health, the fact that we're talking about Alzheimer's and women's health and endometriosis and all of these things is huge advancement in my lifetime. So we need to be I'm fully aware that my daughters, who are 30, they're going to have a completely different experience when they get to menopause. They're going to have a very different experience with dementia and Alzheimer's. It's going to be radically different because of many of the people that have been in this on this stage. Absolutely. Many of the people that are working in labs all over this world are invisible, tireless. And so that's why I'm excited about the space, because it's the change is happening as we sit here and it's happened in the last year, two, three, four. And that's exciting. Yeah. And, um, so I'm excited that people still want to become doctors and researchers and scientists and that they might teach women's health and they might teach about something more than menopause and that they might be interested in the midlife woman and beyond. And I'm fully convinced they'll find a cure for Alzheimer's. And I'm fully convinced that the next administration will advocate some funds to women's health. Absolutely. Well, you were. We're leaving on a high note. Thank you for the inspiration, and thank you for all of your knowledge. I appreciate your time. 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