Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

This week I have taken on two new one-to-one clients who have both been through breast cancer and now are in medical menopause.

So this basically means that they're in artificial menopause to stop ovarian function and so estrogen level stay low.

Now obviously in this situation you wouldn't be taking HRT because essentially you're trying to do

the opposite. That'd kind of undo the whole point of the being in medical menopause.

And this means that there are a few considerations to diet and exercise that wouldn't necessarily in other situations be relevant because of this

like huge reduction almost like complete, or the idea would be that kind of complete elimination in

estrogen to reduce risk of breast cancer

recurrence. This means that things like managing energy levels to make sure that they are still

performing at a high level, they're still progressing, they're still increasing their fitness,

building muscle, getting the results that they want, but aren't burning themselves out and

they're actually recovering well from this.

There are like more considerations around that and it's a very different approach to what you would take to somebody who is going through

who are going to say normal menopause, I guess, it's like a simple way to turn that. Now, these women don't have small

goals. Like both of them want to get back to doing pull-ups. So both them have at least a five pull-up goal.

And one of them is going to be tracking the actual Sahara Desert, right? So no fucking around.

And one of the reasons I love working with people who

have been through a lot is that sometimes they just have like the most incredible

and inspiring goals and this like zest for life and I want to make sure that that

feeling is backed by the amount of energy that they have because obviously that one of the most

ongoing symptoms of cancer treatment that most people don't really think about or talk about

enough is cancer-related fatigue and that can last for years if not decades and when managed well

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