Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. This episode is going to be all about the menopause.

And I'm going to go through briefly what the menopause is, why we should all know about it.

And then what I really want to focus on this episode and it is going to be a little bit sciencey.

So hopefully that's enjoyable for people,

is the direct impact of changes during the menopause, primarily a reduction in estrogen,

on the impact, sorry, the impact that has on building muscle and losing fat.

And then what we need to do about that, if anything, for women going through that phase of life.

And then I'm going to talk briefly about what people get wrong about menopause.

So to start with, and sorry if this episode sounds a little bit strange, I'm actually using

it to practice my presentation for IFS. Because do you know what,

two birds, one stone, imperfect action, blah, blah, blah, all the stuff that I preach. So why do you

need to know about menopause? And what I'm going to do at this point is probably get everyone to stand up

and be like, well, if you know a woman, stand up. Okay, cool.

These are the people that need to know about menopause, right? So I'm hoping that everyone in the

audience actually knows a woman or is at least sitting near one. And that's going to be the point

that I make. And the reason that this is so important is that menopause shouldn't be a niche topic.

Every woman who lives long enough is going to go through the menopause.

And the average age of women going through the menopause is 48 to 52.

Now, I was about to explain what an average is.

But basically, that means that some people go through that before and some people can go through after. But that's kind of like the average is. But basically, that means that some people go through that before,

and some people can go through after, but that's kind of like the average age that people

hit menopause. And that means that if you base that off life expectancy,

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