Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. I've had a really great week.

The sun is shining, commit to six starts on the first of April, which is actually a Tuesday,

not Monday, slightly different. I also took on two one-to-ones this week and a third one that

I'm just about to write a program for, all post-breast

cancer, which is very exciting, really excited to get to work with these women, all since last

week's podcast. So there's obviously a need for that kind of information. So there will be much

more on that because there's tons that I could go into, especially I want to talk about the impact

of exercise.

Anyway, today's episode is another topic that I wanted to do a bit of a deep dive on,

and I'm very passionate about, and it's menopause.

And specifically, the claims around building muscle and the impact of menopause on your metabolism.

Now to say there is a lot of misinformation about this would be a huge understatement.

So I'm going to start with metabolism because it's very often claimed even by, to be fair, self-proclaimed experts, but experts in

menopause that metabolism just drops significantly. This isn't often even menopause. They're

just talking about perimenopause. Like the reason you're finding it harder to lose fat is your

metabolism's tanks because estrogen levels are lower.

That is not what's happening.

And like I say, I even see menopause coaches making this claim and worse,

some people who are selling information-based courses to other personal trainers for CPD.

So you can see how this misinformation quickly spreads, right?

This person selling courses, then loads of coaches do it, and then they tell all their clients,

and then they're all misinformed as well, and they tell the next person, and it just spreads

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