This week we have a very special guest on the Collective, Tonya Keane founder of The Women’s Brain Project, who is a nutritionist, chef and functional medicine practitioner that specialised in the menopausal brain. What is brain fog? Do you feel you are loosing your mind? What can we do to help our brains function as they should? All these questions answered and many more with the lovely Tonya.The Book Collective start reading A year of Marvellous Ways and someone is struggling with it… find out who and meet the enigmatic Marvellous as we begin her story.We open a debate on pj’s and pants, should you wear your bum huggers and pj’s? Or should we be commando under our nightwear? And what have your hormones made you do? Jinty lets us know what hers have been up to and it ain’t too pretty! As our topic of brain health is continuing this month we have a great guest Tonya Keane, a woman with an amazing story that she shares with us, she’s a nutritionist, professional chef and functional medicine practitioner, she also founded The Women’s Brain Project that is on a mission to show women how we can look after our brains and help prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia.We learn about the perils of sugar on the brain and how hormones affect the it in peri and menopause and why oestrogen receptors in the brain are usually the last to receive oestrogen, and what we can do to help alleviate this.Tonya explains how hormone depletion affects our personalities. We get life enhancing advice from Tonya on what we can do to combat the risk of dementia as we age, the balance of a healthy diet and lifestyle will also help minimize the risk of inflammatory diseases. It’s an informative and fun chat full of advice and guidance to help us all live with a healthier brain.Get a pen and paper as Tonya give you 3 practical & simple tips for Brain health that you can begin right away. Jinty gives Lou a funny WI, but will she be able to follow it through? We ask why some of the names of medication for our Vaginal health are not more like the romantic Italian opera sounding names for Viagra? Can you think of some new ones? A tasty warming shot for the Foodie Collective this week with ginger, turmeric and orange a brain healthy drink that will also tickle your taste buds. The Book Collective gets to know Marvellous and Francis from ‘A year of Marvellous Ways’ by Sarah Winman. We find out how the collective are getting on with the characters and how the story if unfolding.This week we are discussing up to chapter 12, then from here to chapter?We hope that you enjoy, please let us know by leaving a review on apple podcasts, and subscribe.We do everything ourselves with no sponsors so your support here means everything. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast we would love it if you could buy us a Ko-Fi, you can also find extra content, photos, and updates. It helps us create quality content and sound. We really appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcastFoodie Collective;Energising ginger shot;20ml Gimber Ginger concentrate1/2 tsp turmericA little black pepper40mls orange or apple juice (or a bit of both)Find Tonya Keane on Instagram @thewomensbrainproject--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.