337: Dr. Jennifer Ashton - The Self-Care Solution
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jennifer Ashton (IG: @drjashton) is the two-time Emmy Award Winning Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America. A popular guest speaker and moderator, she is among the leading voices in the country on Women’s Health, and the only doctor with a national television platform who is also a nutritionist and double board certified in Ob-GYN and Obesity Medicine.
Today we're discussing Jen's latest book, The Self-Care Solution.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How dry January led Jen to a year of monthly wellness challenges
- The power of connection and community
- Accountability helps you stay on track
- Perfection is not the goal, it’s all about the process
- Eating sugar makes you want more sugar
- How to quit sugar
- Build self-care into each day
- What is transcendental meditation (TM)?
- The benefits of a daily meditation practice
- Caffeine dehydrates your body, drink water
- How to drink more water each day
- The importance of laughter
- Reconnect with your inner child
- Children teach parents so much
- Being mindful of your technology use
- Tracking your sleep
- You have to make yourself a priority
- Time to re-evaluate your habits
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| 0:00.0 | I think you're starting a little introspective you know we start a new year and it's kind of appealing to set new goals and try to think you're starting with a clean slate and I'm no different I tend to do that as well but and I'm no different. I tend to do that as well. But and I realized that I needed to now, you know, kind of walk the walk that I do with my patients and on the air at ABC News and really turn that critical |
| 0:25.5 | doctor's lens to myself and reassess the things that I do or don't do on a daily |
| 0:31.9 | basis. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 337. |
| 0:38.8 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:45.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:47.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations |
| 0:50.0 | about health and wellness, |
| 0:52.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:56.0 | And this week we are speaking with Dr. Jennifer Ashton. |
| 0:59.0 | She's a two-time Emmy Award winning Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America. |
| 1:05.6 | A popular guest speaker and moderator, she is among the leading voices in the country |
| 1:09.7 | on women's health and the only doctor with a national television program who is also a |
| 1:14.2 | nutritionist and double board certified in OBGYN and obesity medicine. |
| 1:19.4 | Today we're discussing Jen's latest book, The Self-Care Solution. |
| 1:23.8 | This book is the perfect companion to take you throughout the year as it helps you to take on a different |
| 1:27.8 | health challenge every month. |
| 1:29.6 | You can even overlap them since January is behind us now so you can totally do two at once or |
| 1:35.4 | three at once and we're so excited for you to hear what these are and we know you |
| 1:39.6 | know how important self-care is and Jen's wisdom is going to help you create healthy |
| 1:43.9 | habits for the entire year and beyond. So here is what we get into with Jen today. |
| 1:48.8 | We talk about how dry January led Jen to a year of monthly wellness challenges, why accountability |
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