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Southern Remedy for Women | 2026 New Year Resolution Follow-Throughs

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Dr. Kinsey breaks down SMART goals with a specific example: walking 30 minutes four days a week for three months.
Dr. Jasmine Kinsey hosts the Southern Remedy Women's Health segment, opening with a personal anecdote about a dinner conversation that inspired her to revisit New Year's resolutions. She notes that many resolutions involve health, fitness, or financial goals, making this topic relevant for the women's health show. Dr. Kinsey introduces the SMART goals acronym—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound—and provides a concrete example: walking 30 minutes four days a week for three months to improve cardiovascular health. She shares her own resolution success story involving a reward chart system for her three children to reduce household clutter and stress. The episode then transitions to discussing fatigue, a frequent issue in her clinic, with Dr. Kinsey explaining that fatigue can mean different things to different people, such as tiredness, weakness, or lack of energy. She lists potential medical causes including heart issues, sleep apnea, perimenopause, anemia, vitamin deficiencies, infections, depression, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Dr. Kinsey emphasizes the importance of patient history and self-reflection, noting that lifestyle factors like dehydration, caffeine intake, and medication changes can contribute. She outlines a diagnostic workup that may involve blood tests, thyroid checks, sleep studies, or heart ultrasounds, depending on symptoms. A caller named Shirley from Grenada describes finding oil on her breast, leading Dr. Kinsey to recommend a mammogram and doctor consultation. The conversation concludes with reminders about managing stress and the multifactorial nature of fatigue, tying back to the importance of SMART goals for overall wellness.

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A steady New Year's check-in opens into a careful look at fatigue and the goals it can complicate.

Southern Remedy starts with a familiar check-in on New Year's resolutions, then turns toward a bigger and messier subject: fatigue. Dr. Jasmine Kinsey frames tiredness as more than a passing complaint, connecting it to exhaustion, weakness, low energy, reduced capacity, and the…

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You can circle back to the goals you set early in the year and make room for fatigue as something to understand, not a personal failure.

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