Health Anxiety, Vaccines and Making Sense of Medical News – Dr. Jen Ashton with Dave Asprey : 830
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dr. Jen Ashton brings a wealth of experience to the podcast as a physician, a medical correspondent for international news media, and an award-winning journalist.
As the ABC News’ Chief Health and Medical Correspondent for nearly a decade, she reports on major health and wellness issues across all ABC News platforms. She also reports the latest breaking medical news for “GMA3: What You Need to Know.” She’s been on the front lines of Covid reporting on the science, the health toll and the development of Covid vaccines since the earliest days of the pandemic,.
And while that certainly keeps her busy, she wrote her sixth book during the world’s crazy pandemic year: “The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era.” (Some would call that feat crazy in itself!)
“I found that in covering this pandemic, it really was more about communication, or as much about communication, and how to explain medical and scientific concepts to the world and to the country so that people can really use that information,” Dr. Ashton says.
She’s one of the few physicians with media platforms who still sees patients and has an active medical practice.
“I think that there were a lot of really smart doctors and public health officials who I think missed the mark on communicating a lot of the information in the pandemic because they don't take care of real patients anymore,” Dr Ashton explains. “I think that when someone does interact with a real person, it changes their approach as communicators of medical information, because it becomes very real.”
One of the things that showed up in both her reporting on Covid and seeing her patients was the rise in health anxiety. This iis an obsessive and irrational worry about having a serious medical condition.
In her book, Dr. Ashton says, “It’s important to know that this kind of health anxiety can happen to anyone at any time, even months or years after a traumatic event like a pandemic is over.”
We talk about resilience in this episode and Dr. Ashton gives practical tips on how to navigate what’s happening in the world right now and how to move forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Good proof radio, a state of high performance. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to Bullproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:09.4 | Today's going to be a fun conversation that ought to be able to stay up on iTunes. |
| 0:15.0 | We're talking about the new normal with ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent, Jennifer |
| 0:21.6 | Ashton MD, or as she's commonly known as Jen. |
| 0:26.0 | Dr. Ashton, welcome to the show. |
| 0:29.0 | Thank you, Dave. |
| 0:30.0 | It's so good to be with you. |
| 0:32.0 | This is a cool episode because we've got about 50 people from the Upgrade Collective |
| 0:36.6 | in our live audience. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm going to ask them for questions during the show and at the end, I'll bring some |
| 0:42.6 | of them on live. |
| 0:44.4 | And if you're listening to this going, what tech is Upgrade Collective? |
| 0:46.4 | This is my mentorship and membership group, which you just pay a monthly fee, but I have |
| 0:51.7 | a whole team of you to answer all of your questions about biohacking and all of that. |
| 0:55.5 | And I participate as well with weekly calls and it's been a huge amount of fun. |
| 0:59.7 | So that means I get to actually look at all the people in the audience and they get early |
| 1:02.8 | access like this. |
| 1:03.8 | So if you want to be a part of the community, our upgradecollective.com. |
| 1:09.1 | Now, let's get into it because Jen, your book, The New Normal, came out in February. |
| 1:18.4 | And we're recording this about three, four months later. |
| 1:21.8 | This has changed from when your book first hit the market and now because things are moving |
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