Dr. Mary Claire Haver

They're not going to nightclubs anymore.

People are very keen on doing marathons and half marathons at the moment.

And I've got a couple of friends that are doing a lot of marathons at the moment and they're very, very, very skinny.

Yeah.

Is that healthy?

I'm not even sure if that's the right question.

One can judge from just looking, but being extremely skinny in that regard, being that sort of marathon runner physique.

And that's the skinny fat thing you talked about earlier.

Is there an evolutionary lens on this?

I always think about this when we're having these conversations, like what used to happen thousands of years ago?

And so the equivocal in the time now is that I'm not eating enough or I'm burning more than I'm consuming?

Exactly.

So I'm in a calorie deficit in some way.

I mean, like stress 10,000 years ago would have been like a lion.

Are women increasingly overtraining?

And are the rules of exercise slightly different once you've entered perimenopause?

So am I right in thinking the solution, if I'm perimenopausal, is to do high intensity interval training for short periods of time?

And what makes quality training?

What is quality training?

Okay, I'm going to try and summarize this.