Fuller Living With Dr. Ashitey

This week, Fuller Living brings you an encore presentation while recording is on a short break. We’re returning to our most watched episode, Heart Disease 101. Heart disease is still the number one cause of death worldwide, and the process starts decades before anyone feels it. If you missed it the first time, or you know someone who needs it, this is the one to share.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey talks about what heart disease actually is, how it builds quietly inside the blood vessels over years, and why the risk factors you can see on a lab report matter long before anything feels wrong. This is the final episode in the Cardiometabolic 101 series, bringing together blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol to show how they lead to the same place.

You’ll learn:

• What is actually happening in your arteries when heart disease develops
• How high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol feed the same process
• Why most people feel completely fine until the day they don’t
• The warning signs worth knowing, including the ones women often miss
• One SMART goal to start protecting your heart this week

If this episode helped you understand your heart differently, share it with one person this week and subscribe so these conversations keep finding you. Follow @fullerlivingcoaching on Instagram for more.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey talks about what actually happens inside your body on the road to Type 2 diabetes, and why the stage right before it is the moment that matters most.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and this replay opens with a new introduction on how common diabetes has become, why it so often goes unnoticed, and the signs worth knowing, including one that shows up on your skin.

You’ll learn:

• What insulin does after every meal, and why the lock and key picture makes it click
• How insulin resistance develops slowly over years, long before blood sugar rises
• Why prediabetes is a signal and not a sentence, and what changes when you act on it
• How a ten minute walk after dinner lowers blood sugar without needing more insulin
• One SMART goal you can start this week

If this episode changed how you think about diabetes, share it with one person who needs to hear it, and subscribe so these conversations keep finding you. Follow @fullerlivingcoaching on Instagram for more during the week.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey talks about one of the most common complaints she hears in clinic: being tired all the time, even after a full night’s sleep. She shares the story of a patient in her thirties who had been tired for years and had been told it was stress, and walks through the three questions she asks before she ever tells anyone that.

You’ll learn:

• Why you can spend eight hours in bed and still get very little of the sleep that counts
• The one question about your sleep that catches a problem most people never get diagnosed
• Why a normal blood count doesn’t rule out low iron, and the one test that is most often skipped
• Why being out of condition feels exactly like being tired, and why lighter exercise worked better than harder in the research
• One SMART goal that takes ten minutes a day and gives you something real to bring to your doctor

If you know someone who says they’re always tired and has stopped bringing it up because nothing ever came of it, send them this episode. Follow @fullerlivingcoaching on Instagram for more during the week, and subscribe to this podcast so the next episode finds you.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey talks about health misinformation online and shares a simple four-step filter, the SIFT method, for checking any scary health claim before you believe it, share it, or change what’s in your kitchen.

You’ll learn:

• Why scary health videos get past your defenses, and why falling for one doesn’t make you gullible
• The four SIFT moves: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace it back
• How to tell when a “study” in a viral video doesn’t say what the caption claims
• Why “follow the money” is one of the fastest checks you can run
• One small goal to practice SIFT on a real post this week

If this episode helped, share it with the person who always sends you the scary health videos, subscribe so the next episode finds you, and follow along on Instagram at @fullerlivingcoaching.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey talks about what the research now shows you can change about your risk of dementia, and what it still cannot promise.

You’ll learn:

• What dementia actually takes from a person, and from the family caring for them
• Why ordinary midlife forgetfulness is usually not what people fear it is
• The three habits with the strongest evidence behind them, and how strong that evidence really is
• Why treating your blood pressure may be one of the most important things you do for your brain
• One SMART goal that takes ten minutes this week

If this episode made you think of someone you love, share it with them and follow the podcast so you don’t miss what’s next.

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In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey talks about how strength quietly starts leaving around age forty, and what the research says about getting it back.

You'll learn:

• Why strength leaves faster than size, and why the mirror can't tell you how you're doing
• What your muscle is really doing for you when you get sick or have surgery
• What happened when adults in their eighties were put through strength training
• The two different doses, and why the one that protects your health is far smaller than most people assume
• One SMART goal that takes forty minutes out of your entire week

If this episode made you think differently about the years ahead, share it with someone you love and follow the podcast so you don't miss the rest of the series.

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Heart disease is the number one killer in the world, and the process behind it starts decades before anyone feels a thing.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey looks at a question most people never think to ask: if damage has already been done, can any of it be undone? The answer is more interesting than a simple yes or no, and it has as much to do with timing as it does with effort.

This is the first episode in a three-part series on what really changes when you start taking care of your health later in life.

You'll learn:

• Why your heart has two jobs, and why the second one almost never gets discussed
• The quiet version of heart disease that nobody pictures
• Why someone can be told their heart function is normal and still be short of breath
• What researchers found when previously sedentary adults trained for two years
• Why timing may matter more than most people realize
• One SMART goal to help you see your own starting point clearly

If this episode changed how you think about the stairs, share it with someone you love and follow the podcast so you don't miss the rest of the series.

What happens when the life you planned no longer fits?

Dr. Sarah Ashitey sits down with Dr. Kim Johnson Hatchett — a double board-certified neurologist, speaker, and creator of Dr. Kim Neuro Doc — for an honest conversation about reinvention, resilience, and having the courage to change direction.

Dr. Hatchett’s path to medicine was anything but traditional. Before becoming a physician, she studied finance and banking. Her journey eventually took her back to school, through medical training, and into a career in neurology.

Together, they talk about making major life transitions, how our environments shape what we believe is possible, navigating rejection and closed doors, representation, resilience, and the difference between quitting and knowing when it’s time to change course.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’ve waited too long, chosen the wrong path, or missed your opportunity to become something different, this conversation is for you.

Because sometimes living more fully means being willing to change the plan.

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Live with intention. Live with purpose.

You missed a day. Then another. And somewhere in there you decided you'd start again on Monday.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey makes the case that the missed day almost never costs you anything. Waiting, on the other hand, can cost you everything.

She walks through the behavior research showing that missing a single day doesn't significantly affect progress. The curve picks right back up.

You'll learn:

• What a missed day actually does inside your body, and why two days off is not what you think it is
• The second finding in the habit study that changes how you read every missed day
• Why we come back with a bigger plan instead of a smaller one, and the loop that keeps going
• One question to ask about your last plan that tells you what it was really for
• Why guilt is good at getting people started and bad at keeping them going
• What to pick back up today, and how to size it so it survives a hard day
• One SMART goal to resume something you already quit, without starting the count over

You don't need Monday. There's no beginning to get back to, because you never really left.

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Most people skip movement entirely because the time they have never feels like enough to matter. Twenty minutes doesn't seem worth changing clothes for. Ten minutes seems pointless. So the week goes by and nothing happens, not from a lack of caring, but from a belief that exercise only counts if it's long.

In this episode of Fuller Living, Dr. Ashitey walks through what the research actually shows about small amounts of movement, across three different systems in the body. She names the recommended amount plainly, shows you where the benefit curve is steepest, and is clear about where a small dose is not enough on its own.

You'll learn:

• What the recommended amount of physical activity actually is, and what moderate intensity really means
• How much your blood pressure responds to just thirty minutes of activity per week
• Why most of the mood benefit shows up in the first half of the recommendation
• What researchers found when they studied people who don't formally exercise at all
• Where a small amount of movement is not enough, and what to pair it with
• One SMART goal to put this into practice in the next seven days

The amount of movement it takes to change something measurable inside your body is far smaller than the number you have been carrying around in your head.

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