Ep. 7 - Science Vs Bullsh*t - Misinformation Around Menopause and Weight Loss, The Science of Caffeine & Building Muscle Without Heavy Lifting
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Technical Setup
01:19 Misinformation Around Menopause and Weight Loss
06:40 Understanding Energy and Motivation in Fat Loss
09:28 Commit to Six Program Overview find out more here
09:55 The Science of Caffeine and Its Effects
17:50 Building Muscle Without Heavy Lifting
23:17 Fat Loss and Muscle Building Simultaneously
31:03 Steps, Hunger, and Health Benefits
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of the EST Fitness Podcast, Science versus Bullshit. |
| 0:06.9 | Enjoy. |
| 0:08.2 | Okay, sorry for the next time. |
| 0:10.0 | I didn't think this would work, but here we are. |
| 0:12.3 | Look at me, TechWiz. |
| 0:14.5 | Woo-woo. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm coming in from like another platform into Substack. |
| 0:19.6 | So there we go. |
| 0:20.7 | Anyway, this is going to make life a lot |
| 0:22.3 | easier for everyone because you won't have to keep signing up the same thing, which is silly. |
| 0:26.7 | You can just watch it live and any questions that you have, you can fire away there and I |
| 0:31.3 | will answer them. I also have some questions that people asked beforehand and I'll make |
| 0:36.7 | sure I cover those as well. |
| 0:39.0 | A couple of things that people sent me this week. One of them was a tweet that said, |
| 0:45.1 | in fact, there were two things that were very, very similar. And a kind of my pet hate, |
| 0:50.2 | because again, it's like misinformation towards men or women, making them feel even more confused. |
| 0:56.3 | So the first one was, this is the wildest thing I've ever seen, a client who ate 1,200 calories and gained weight. |
| 1:02.7 | Then she started eating 1,900 calories and she lost 18 pounds. |
| 1:07.9 | Why? Her body thought she was at war. |
| 1:13.9 | So it stored everything, Even her own muscle. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm not really sure what that part means. Like she even stored her own muscle, which I would assume would be a good thing. But no, you can kind of tell that things have been written by CHAPT and maybe someone's |
| 1:24.6 | not even bothered looking at it. It kind of feels like that. But apparently, |
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