Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More S4 Ep192: Love Your Age with Dr. Jen Ashton
Jan 8, 2026
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Dr. Jen Ashton- you know her as the chief medical correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America, who appeared in your home every morning, explaining the hot topics in health.
Today, we talk about her pivot into her passion- fitness and wellness- and how to incorporate into the second half of your life..and love your age.
- How Dr. Ashton ended up as an anchor on Good Morning America
- How she has reinvented herself as a wellness and obesity expert
- We revisit “The Reinvention Convention we participated in years ago
- The key traits of women who “Love their Age.”
- Why Dr. Ashton is learning to play Mah Jong
- How to plan for the second half of life
- For women who don’t love their age, what should they accept and… not accept
- Dr. Ashton’s Wellness Experiment
- The difference between wellness and longevity
- What most doctors get wrong about nutrition
- The concept of “nutritional gynecology”
- “Super foods”
- Menopause nutrition
- Exercise after age 55- for the avid exerciser and the never excerciser
- Why BAREFOOT Training is important
Dr. Jennifer Ashton is board-certified in OB-GYN and Obesity Medicine with a Master’s degree in Nutrition from Columbia University. She is the Founder and President of Ajenda, a multimedia health platform focused on science-driven metabolic and hormonal health for women. For 12 years, Dr. Ashton was seen by millions of people daily on national television as the Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News and co-host of GMA3: What You Need to Know. She was the first woman and only the third physician to hold that role in network history.
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Lauren Streicher MD, is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.
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- Information About COME AGAIN
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
- Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
- Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
- Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
- The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is for education and information and is not intended to replace medical advice from your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.