Dear Dr. Jen

"You are not a disease. You have a disease."

"Dear Dr. Jen, can you stretch your Zepbound dose past five days and still have it work?" In the first ask-me-anything episode of Dear Dr. Jen, Dr. Jennifer Ashton answers your questions, starting with the drug class everyone is asking about: GLP-1s. She explains why the injectable GLP-1s stay in your system for about five weeks, what true microdosing actually means, why her own physician put her on half the lowest dose of Zepbound for a reason that had nothing to do with weight, and how...

"Dear Dr. Jen, so much news on heart health for women, especially surrounding menopause. Is this all fear-mongering? What do I really need to know?"

Heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined, and it is also the most preventable thing that can kill you. To answer Alice's question, Dr. Jennifer Ashton sits down with Dr. Jenn Haythe: advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, co-director of the Columbia Women's Heart Center, director of its Cardio-Obstetrics Program, and one of Jen's closest friends for 30 years. They get into why women...

"I'm really worried about a society in which we go on and off these drugs, because people will get sicker and sicker."

"Dear Dr. Jen, I was just diagnosed with prediabetes. What does this mean?" About 1 in 3 Americans have been told they have prediabetes, and most of them don't get a real answer. To give one, Dr. Jennifer Ashton sits down with Dr. Anne Peters: professor of medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine, director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Program, one of the people who literally write the diabetes guidelines, and one of the first doctors...

"The entire floor of the operating room was covered in blood. It's a case I will remember for the rest of my life."

For almost 20 years, Dr. Jennifer Ashton's job was to distill complex medical topics into 20 to 180 seconds of television. Dear Dr. Jen takes the time limit off. In this first episode, Jen shares the messenger behind the message: how an exhausted young OB-GYN with two small kids and no interest in TV ended up spending 18 years as a network medical correspondent, why that made her a better doctor, and the stories that made the biggest...

We hope you enjoy this 10-minute trailer of Origin Story before we release our first full episode, coming soon.

For almost 20 years, Dr. Jennifer Ashton's job was to distill complex medical topics into 20 to 180 seconds of television. Dear Dr. Jen takes the time limit off. In this first look, Jen shares the messenger behind the message: how an exhausted young OB-GYN with two small kids and no interest in TV ended up spending 18 years as a network medical correspondent, why that made her a better doctor, and the stories that made the biggest impact.

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Dr. Jen Ashton, MD breaks down what the research actually says about women’s health — no noise, no filler, just science you can use. After 12 years as ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent, she’s done with two-minute segments. Now there’s no time limit.

Board-certified OB-GYN and Obesity Medicine physician. Master’s in Nutrition. She’s the doctor who connects the dots.

Each week, Dr. Jen:

Busts the myths your doctor never corrected

Walks through the studies behind the headlines

Delivers real answers on hormones, nutrition, weight & longevity