#130 Menopause, Exercise & Healthy Ageing with Dr Wendy Sweet, PhD

Dr Wendy Sweet PhD is a menopause educator, fitness specialist and healthy ageing expert for women. In this episode, we talk about the right type of exercise, lifting weights, how much protein is ideal and is creatine essential for you?

And despite the well-meaning messages out there lifting more and more weights, eating more and more protein and taking creatine may not be right for you. It's different strokes for different folks.

In this episode, we talk about:

00:00 Introduction

01:04 About Wendy

05:42. Wendy's story

10:44 Exercise and depression

10:52 Understanding the importance of vitamin D

14:23 We aren't our mother's generations

16:15 Should women be lifting heavier and heavier weights? Is there a best choice of exercise?

28:58 Exercise assumption, ageing and menopause

33:40. American Heart Association Guidelines

37:02 Recovery and blood work

40:10 Your muscles are ageing and changing

44:32 Do we need to be taking creatine?

48:30 Fat gain and meno belly

57:05 How much (and what type of protein should non-athletes be eating?

59:52 The Keto diet and menopause

01:01 The Mediterranean diet and menopause

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