Em Rusciano

The reason I did go to the gym, though, because I got told I was borderline osteoporosis.

In my 40s.

Yes.

So estrogen runs through your brain, your heart, your kidneys, your bones, your lungs.

Every major operating system in your body uses estrogen.

Think of it as like petrol.

Now, when that petrol stops running through the car, the red light comes on.

So every protective thing that estrogen provided, the heart disease for women over 45 is the second biggest killer bar dementia because our hearts are no longer protected by the estrogen.

The Alzheimer's, there's no issue.

Everything that's happening to us is because we've lost that fight.

hormonal hormone keeping things ticking over.

So the bone density thing was a massive issue.

I was in osteopenia, which is perimenopause to osteoporosis.

What perimenopause is is to menopause.

Cuter to say.

Cuter to say.

Let's not alarm the men that we're getting old.

And my endocrinologist, and that is a hormone specialist, Nellie said to me, you've got to get to the gym and you've got to get strong.

And I said, I don't want to go to the gym.

I'm so tired.