Her 2019 book GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery, was a New York Times bestseller.

[3] During her time as a researcher Aschwanden discovered the popular-science magazine New Scientist and decided that she would like to be a science journalist.

[6] Her investigations considered scientific misconduct and fraud, and found that whilst these cases made headlines, they were a "mere distraction" from science itself.

[7] Scientific results are influenced by the analytical decisions of researchers, and whilst they are usually in "good faith", they can bias the way evidence is interpreted.

[9] Her reporting was the first to reveal the statistical and reproducibility issues in sports science, in particularly, concerns over magnitude-based inference (MBI).

It has received widespread criticism for not being robust – the sample sizes are too small and the conclusions are not backed up by enough evidence.

She is married and lives with her husband, Dave Aschwanden, and numerous animals in Western Colorado on a small winery.