Farah Dutson - Personal Trainer & Nutrition Coach

Farah Dutson - Personal Trainer & Nutrition Coach Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach and Consultant Optometrist
Empowering you to live your best life through exercise and nutrition.

Strengthen microbiome and anti inflammatory profile, regulate hormones, lose weight and gain muscle

On International Women’s Day, I want to shine a light on a group of women we don’t talk about enough.Postmenopausal.In y...
07/03/2026

On International Women’s Day, I want to shine a light on a
group of women we don’t talk about enough.

Postmenopausal.
In your mid 50s, 60s & 70s
Diagnosed with breast cancer.

Often assumed to be “done” with menopause.

But treatments like o***y removal, ovarian suppression, tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors can lower oestrogen even further.

And symptoms return.

Hot flushes.
Joint pain.
Broken sleep.
Low mood.
Vaginal dryness.

It can feel like a second menopause.

Yes, survival matters.

But so does quality of life.
So does strength.
So does bone health.
So does dignity.

Being postmenopausal in your 50s, 60s & 70s does not make your symptoms irrelevant.

If this is you, you are not imagining it!

There are evidence-informed ways to support inflammation, protect bone density and rebuild strength after breast cancer treatment.

If you’re ready for first steps, join my email community and access my free guides on inflammation and osteoporosis at farahdutson.com.

You deserve support that sees the whole picture.

Never too late to change your trajectory📈





When I look at this little girl, she had no idea what was ahead.She didn’t know that later in life she’d watch illness t...
06/03/2026

When I look at this little girl, she had no idea what was ahead.

She didn’t know that later in life she’d watch illness touch so many people she loved.

Some of you know my backstory - I still practice optometry, but then gained my personal training & nutrition coach qualification during the pandemic.

My father developed Parkinson’s in his mid-50s.
My father-in-law Alzheimer’s.
My mother was diagnosed with advanced osteopenia after breaking her ankle.
My mother-in-law later developed MND.

And then friends in their 40s and 50s began facing breast cancer.

It made me start asking bigger questions about inflammation, lifestyle and how our environment can influence the genes we carry.

Those questions eventually led me to change direction in my 50s.

Back then when I spoke how chronic illness, inflammation, the microbiome, lifestyle were all linked and I wasn’t taken seriously.

And here we are.

⭐️Now I help women rebuild muscle, protect bone density, reduce inflammation and train for longevity, especially after breast cancer and through menopause.

It’s never too late to change your direction

And it’s never too early to build strength that lasts

Because how we age is something we can influence

04/03/2026

If you’re trying to improve bone density in menopause, jump training alone is not enough.

Osteoporosis exercise requires more than impact.

Whether you have:

• Osteopenia
• Osteoporosis
• Bone loss after menopause
• Post-breast cancer bone density changes
• Are taking aromatase inhibitors
• Cannot take HRT

⭐️Building bone density requires a structured strength training approach.

Jumping can stimulate bone.

But bone health in menopause also depends on:

✔ Progressive strength training
✔ Heavy resistance to stimulate osteoblast activity
✔ Adequate calcium, protein and calories
✔ Anti-inflammatory nutrition
✔ Properly sequenced impact training

Chronic inflammation affects bone turnover.

When inflammation is elevated, osteoclast activity increases and bone breakdown accelerates.

Muscle is protective.

Strength training improves insulin sensitivity, reduces systemic inflammation and releases myokines that support bone formation.

Impact training should follow mobility and strength, not replace them.

If you want to improve bone density safely in menopause or after breast cancer treatment, your programme must be progressive, personalised and inflammation-aware.

Osteoporosis isn’t a bootcamp problem.
It’s a long-term programming problem.

My 13-week bespoke 1:1 programme is built for women who are ready to rebuild bone intelligently.

If that’s you, DM me APPLY.

I personally review every message.

Never too late to change your trajectory📈





04/03/2026

Many women after breast cancer are told to lose weight while also being diagnosed with osteoporosis.

⭐️And this can feel like an impossible balance.

On one hand, many breast cancer survivors are aware that excess body fat is associated with a higher recurrence risk, so losing weight can feel important for long-term health.

But at the same time, menopause and common breast cancer treatments can accelerate:

• bone loss (osteopenia and osteoporosis)
• muscle loss
• rising cholesterol
• increased visceral belly fat

⭐️This creates a real physiological challenge.

Because aggressive dieting and rapid weight loss can also worsen bone loss and muscle loss, which are exactly the things we need to protect after breast cancer.

So the goal cannot simply be “lose weight.”

The real focus needs to be:

✔ preserving bone density
✔ rebuilding muscle mass
✔ improving metabolic health
✔ reducing visceral fat

That requires the right type of strength training, adequate nutrition and a strategy designed for women going through menopause after breast cancer.

Not generic weight-loss advice.

⭐️Because after breast cancer, the goal is not just a smaller body.

⭐️It’s lower recurrence risk, stronger bones, and long-term metabolic health.

Are you trying to lose weight while also being told you have osteopenia or osteoporosis? Tell me in the comments.

Follow for evidence-based guidance on bone health, strength training and metabolic health after breast cancer and through menopause.

Never too late to change your trajectory📈





01/03/2026

You can do so much to lower breast cancer recurrence.

You don’t need perfection because perfection is rarely consistent.

If you need a program that is evidence based with correctly prescribed exercise and nutrition, bespoke to your individual health and exercise needs, Comment or DM: NOW for details.

Offering 1:1, 13 week bespoke programs with both exercise and nutrition, to help lower recurrence, lose fat, gain muscle and improve bone health.

Never too late to change your trajectory📈

27/02/2026

Breast cancer treatment changes your biology.

And so can cancer itself.

If you’ve noticed more fatigue, bloating, muscle weakness, slower recovery or reduced resilience, there is physiology behind that shift.

Cancer and its treatment can increase systemic inflammation, alter mitochondrial function, reduce muscle mass, disrupt the gut microbiome and accelerate bone turnover, particularly during aromatase inhibitor therapy.

This isn’t “just aging.”
It’s treatment-related physiology.

Chemotherapy has been shown to influence molecular aging markers, including telomere biology

Exercise oncology research shows that structured resistance and aerobic training can:

• Improve mitochondrial function
• Reduce chronic inflammation
• Enhance insulin sensitivity
• Increase microbial diversity
• Support bone density
• Improve quality of life by ~20% in breast cancer survivors

(Hojman et al., Nat Rev Cancer, 2018; Courneya et al., J Clin Oncol, 2007; Denham et al., Exp Gerontol, 2016)

⭐️Muscle is not cosmetic tissue.
It’s endocrine, metabolic and anti-inflammatory.

For women on aromatase inhibitors where bone turnover is already elevated, rebuilding muscle and reducing inflammation is central to protecting your spine and long-term health.

If you want progressive training designed specifically for post-breast cancer physiology and aromatase inhibitor bone loss -

That’s exactly what we build inside my 1:1.

DM REBUILD.

Never too late to change your trajectory 📈

Sanoff et al., JNCI, 2014

Hojman et al., Nat Rev Cancer, 2018; Courneya et al., J Clin Oncol, 2007; Denham et al., Exp Gerontol, 2016

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