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Jennifer Ashby

Jennifer Ashby

Dr. Jennifer Ashby, DAOM, LAc — doctor of East Asian medicine, senior acupuncturist at UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Health, and author of "The Energy Prescription" (Wiley), who hosts several health-focused podcasts.

Aug 13, 2026

4:35
Yeah.
4:36
And I have this, I'm going to just say, I have a little bit of a superhero power where I can take the concepts, theories, notions, and principles of East Asian medicine, and I can put them into Western terms without bastardizing the medicine or somehow diluting the message.
4:57
But when you talk about Qi, yin, yang, blood, kidney, qi, kidney, jing.
5:06
Like, I imagine that I have that like 90 seconds in an elevator with everyone.
5:11
And when you when you fold too much of that in, people just glaze over because they're very deep concepts.
5:18
And people don't know what they mean.
5:20
Why would they? So I started figuring out ways of using the same concepts with different terminology.

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15:43
I appreciate you breaking that down.
6:21
Yeah
6:21
...
6:21
so back in the day.
6:23
27 years, what's changed for you? 27 years, I will say I feel almost sorry sometimes for people getting in the industry now, 'cause they have so much to learn.
6:36
And you just went independent.
6:38
And- So- Yeah.
6:39
Like, I left my job after 25 years to, like, start selling for myself- Right ... and building my own book of merchants for myself, um, which was a very hard decision to make after 25 years at the same place.
8:32
When you decided to go independent, was there a particular event or something that happened that was kind of the, the cutoff point for you to make that move?
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So today I wanna talk about fertility and its preservation according to East Asian medicine.
0:19
So fertility for us is based on four notions, the notion of your resources, your body's rhythm, your body's balance, and the fact that your body actually has an energy economy, which is a concept I'm gonna introduce to you today.
0:39
In East Asian medicine, we look at fertility through these lenses, the resources, rhythm, balance, and energy.
0:45
And in East Asian medicine, we ask kind of unique questions.
0:48
We ask, "Does this person have enough stored energy to support conception?" Is your body's timing regular and coordinated? Is your nervous system calm enough to signal that it's safe to reproduce? So tonight we're gonna talk, uh, I'm gonna walk you through the in- East Asian medicine model of fertility, including this foundational energy framework, a new concept of eight things that you can use every day for the rest of your life, not just in terms of your reproductive years.
1:20
And I-- And then tonight we're gonna le-- I'm going to leave you with a practical, simple daily routine that you can start tonight or tomorrow.

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71:56
Not everywhere, but I wonder if you might have some suggestions, um, or models that might be more accessible for people, and also maybe some tips, um, for people about how to find a reputable provider.
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0:14
So today I want to talk about fertility and its preservation according to East Asian Medicine.
0:19
So fertility for us is based on four notions.
0:25
The notion of your resources, your body's rhythm, your body's balance, and the fact that your body actually has an energy economy, which is a concept I'm going to introduce to you today.
0:39
In East Asian medicine, we look at fertility through these lenses, the resources, rhythm, balance, and energy.
0:45
And in East Asian medicine, we ask kind of unique questions.
0:48
We ask, does this person have enough stored energy to support conception? Is your body's timing regular and coordinated? Is your nervous system calm enough to signal that it's safe to reproduce? So tonight, I'm going to walk you through the East Asian medicine model of fertility, including this foundational energy framework, a new concept of eight things that you can use every day for the rest of your life, not just in terms of your reproductive years.

1 HR 11 MINS LATER

speaker_5MODERATOR
72:06
and also maybe some tips for people about how to find a reputable provider?
0:21
So today I want to talk about fertility and its preservation according to East Asian medicine.
0:26
So fertility for us is based on four notions.
0:32
The notion of your resources, your body's rhythm, your body's balance, and the fact that your body actually has an energy economy, which is a concept I'm going to introduce to you today.
0:46
In East Asian medicine, we look at fertility through these lenses, the resources, rhythm, balance, and energy.
0:53
And in East Asian medicine, we ask kind of unique questions.
0:56
We ask, does this person have enough stored energy to support conception? Is your body's timing regular and coordinated? Is your nervous system calm enough to signal that it's safe to reproduce? So tonight, I'm going to walk you through the East Asian medicine model of fertility, including this foundational energy framework, a new concept of eight things that you can use every day for the rest of your life, not just in terms of your reproductive years.

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72:14
and also maybe some tips for people about how to find a reputable provider?
72:21
So I think it's important to know that in the state of California, we are all pre-med before we start our master's in acupuncture school.
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0:04
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0:14
So today I want to talk about fertility and its preservation according to East Asian Medicine.
0:19
So fertility for us is based on four notions.
0:25
The notion of your resources, your body's rhythm, your body's balance, and the fact that your body actually has an energy economy, which is a concept I'm going to introduce to you today.
0:39
In East Asian medicine, we look at fertility through these lenses, the resources, rhythm, balance, and energy.
0:45
And in East Asian medicine, we ask kind of unique questions.
0:48
We ask, does this person have enough stored energy to support conception? Is your body's timing regular and coordinated? Is your nervous system calm enough to signal that it's safe to reproduce? So tonight, I'm going to walk you through the East Asian medicine model of fertility, including this foundational energy framework, a new concept of eight things that you can use every day for the rest of your life, not just in terms of your reproductive years.

1 HR 11 MINS LATER

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72:06
and also maybe some tips for people about how to find a reputable provider?

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