Dr. Jennifer Ashton is an Emmy® Award winning journalist, best-selling author and internationally known as co-host of GMA3. She was also ABC News’s Chief Health and Medical Correspondent. She left GMA and ABC News this year (The Top News Network) to become Founder and CEO of Ajenda. Ajenda is a groundbreaking women’s health and wellness company addressing the challenges of menopause health and weight management in today’s health conversation. Jen and I went to the same medical school at Columbia and she is a rockstar in the Columbia community. She’s not only a double board certified OB-GYN doctor, but she is also a nutritionist and certified in obesity medicine. She joins me to talk about how to address stubborn belly fat that starts to become difficult to manage in your 30’s and 40’s and how to address hair loss due to stress, aging and hormonal changes. Dr. Jen’s world was forever changed when she learned that her ex-husband died by suicide. She discusses how her community and family helped her to heal so that she could return to work as a physician and medical correspondent to continue impacting the life of millions of people.
Dr. Ashton was the only network medical correspondent who is a specialist in Women’s Health and the only doctor with a national media platform who also holds a degree in nutrition and obesity medicine. She was also only the third physician to hold the position of chief medical correspondent in the 75-plus-year history of ABC News. She is the recipient of the prestigious Columbia DuPont award for Excellence in Journalism and was a 2024 John Jay Award honoree by her alma mater for her distinguished work with ABC. Her advocacy in women’s health has also earned her the esteemed 2023 Women Changing the World Award from the American Heart Association. Before joining ABC News, Ashton was the senior medical correspondent for CBS News and appeared on “The Early Show” and “CBS Evening News.” Ashton is also the author of six bestselling books, including most recently, “The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era” (2021).
Listen in as we discuss:
- Hair loss and how to cope with it.
- Belly Fat and best ways to address it.
- Coping with problematic symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
- Weight Loss Medications.
- Best Diet for living healthy.
- How to cope with grief.
- How to support someone who has lost a loved one to suicide.
- Starting your own business in midlife.
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