Jennifer Ashton
Jennifer Ashton
Jennifer Lee Garfein Ashton is an American physician, author and television correspondent. She was chief health and medical editor and chief medical correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America, chief women's health correspondent for The Dr. Oz Show, and a columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine. Ashton was also a regular contributor to the ABC daytime program GMA3: What You Need to Know until
"Aggressive color, color process or heat process on a long-term basis is absolutely going to damage hair. Thats a fact," Ashton said. "So, its a matter of is it worth it? How much are you going to damage it, and for how long?"
"Its something that almost every woman, if shes being honest, will deal with basically from menopause on."
"“The pandemic amplified the interest and need for medical and nutritional information, and this is especially true for women. Women are demanding more access to this information from credible sources, and this needs to be presented and analyzed clearly for the lay public.”"
"“There is so much stigma about mental health as well as blame. I felt that blame when my ex-husband passed.”"
"Due to a variety of factors, hair takes a hit," Ashton said of the perimenopause and menopause phases. "It grows less. It gets thinner. Its more vulnerable and more delicate and it can lose some of its luster."
"“The magazine will provide expert opinions and interpretations that readers can continue to refer to and have access to at the palm of their hands. I see this magazine as a real patient encounter where I can be their personal expert on issues that really matter.”"
"The earlier we all prioritize the health and well-being of our hair, the better [it] will be across our lifetime,"
"“Funding is critical to advance women’s health. We cannot move the needle on women’s health without money. Men must also be involved in that conversation in an equal way”."
"“A holistic approach is essential in addressing anxiety, stress, and depression. Connecting the dots between mental health and physical health is a must. One cannot have a healthy body without a healthy mind, and vice versa.”"
"Roughly every decade there is a change in hair," Ashton said, adding, "With age, all of us will have a change in our hair."
"I protect my hair as much as possible," she said. "I dont think in a given week, Im ever fully blowing out my hair. Im either letting it air-dry naturally if its a weekend, or Im coming in with it wet for work and Im just having the front blown out and I put the faux-ponytail on so that its reasonably presentable for TV."
"Experiment with different types of things, whether they are fun hats or scarves or even wigs,"
