Fighting Fit For Perimenopause - With Hannah Walker

In this episode I talk to Hannah Walker, a fitness coach and PT, specialising in helping women in perimenopause. Hannah’s coaching focuses on teaching women the science behind their hormones, and the impact they have on building muscle mass and achieving fat loss.   Why does it all feel SO much harder to lose weight? Why do we suddenly put on weight? What kind of exercise should we be doing and how often? What do we need in our diet? Hannah takes us through it all. 

Did you know 40-50% of women in post menopause will experience a fracture?  Or that  HRT and doing weight training can significantly reduce your risk? I didn't, but we go into all of that in this episode. 

We dig into nutrition and diet, such as the importance of increasing protein. How diets and weight loss strategies that used to work might not anymore. And how supplements are NOT a replacement for HRT – although they can help with symptoms, they do not reduce the longterm health risks of declining hormone levels, such as osteoporosis, heart disease, alzheimers and diabetes. 

 

We also discuss why many women feel like they should endure the perimenopause without help. But my friends, you don’t get a medal for not taking HRT – you might get osteoporosis though. 

 

Lisa x

 

About Hannah Walker

Hannah Walker is an online female fitness coach building strong, lean, educated women on The Empowered Female Programme. With over 10 years’ coaching experience she’s helped hundreds of women achieve sustainable fat loss, regain their body confidence, become stronger and feel more energised. Her coaching focuses on education, teaching women the science behind their hormones and the impact they have on building muscle mass and achieving fat loss, especially in Perimenopause.

 

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Podcast Host & Producer: Lisa Paasche

Podcast Editor & Producer: Luke Naylor-Perrot

 

Reference Links:

 

Trial overstated HRT risk for younger women

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415400/

 

'Tis but a scratch: a critical review of the Women's Health Initiative evidence associating menopausal hormone therapy with the risk of breast cancer

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37847875/

 

The musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39077777/