The Prescription Strength Podcast
Apr 28, 2026 · 49 min · 21 segments
What happens when cancer treatment finishes, but nobody really tells you what comes next? In this episode, I’m joined by Sarah Newman, a cancer and exercise specialist and founder of Get Me Back…
The idea of being able to get through all of this, I mean, I've had patients who have, patients, older patients who have stopped chemotherapy and said, "I'll take my chances because this makes me feel so bad.
I've described it before, and I still stand by this as it's poison that, if you're lucky, doesn't kill you.
And, and people who've been through it have gone, "Yeah, I, I can kind of, uh, get what that is." But you've got a young child to look after, and so checking out is, is just not-
... not that people check out, but I can understand that perhaps somebody who's in their late 70s or 80s just doesn't have the, the capacity to be able to endure what chemotherapy needs you to endure.
And, and I think that's why fitness becomes quite a, it becomes a challenge during chemo.
But if you are prepared, and I know we're, we're not all expecting to get cancer, but that kind of prevention message around making sure that we always have that nice base level of fitness, a good level of muscle mass, because all of the research coming out now around how much muscle mass you have and then how well you tolerate chemo-
And I think because I was in fairly decent shape, even though I was 20-plus weeks pregnant, I, I still tolerated it perhaps a little bit better than I would've done if I hadn't been that fit.
I mean, I, I really do sympathize for anybody going through it because it, you really have to grit your teeth.
And people say, "You're so brave," and you're like, "Well, I don't really have a choice.
Um, I need to get up every day, and I need to carry on because there's no other way."
The idea of being able to get through all of this, I mean, I've had patients who have, patients, older patients who have stopped chemotherapy and said, "I'll take my chances because this makes me feel so bad.
I've described it before, and I still stand by this as it's poison that, if you're lucky, doesn't kill you.
And, and people who've been through it have gone, "Yeah, I, I can kind of, uh, get what that is." But you've got a young child to look after, and so checking out is, is just not-
... not that people check out, but I can understand that perhaps somebody who's in their late 70s or 80s just doesn't have the, the capacity to be able to endure what chemotherapy needs you to endure.
And, and I think that's why fitness becomes quite a, it becomes a challenge during chemo.
But if you are prepared, and I know we're, we're not all expecting to get cancer, but that kind of prevention message around making sure that we always have that nice base level of fitness, a good level of muscle mass, because all of the research coming out now around how much muscle mass you have and then how well you tolerate chemo-
And I think because I was in fairly decent shape, even though I was 20-plus weeks pregnant, I, I still tolerated it perhaps a little bit better than I would've done if I hadn't been that fit.
I mean, I, I really do sympathize for anybody going through it because it, you really have to grit your teeth.
And people say, "You're so brave," and you're like, "Well, I don't really have a choice.
Um, I need to get up every day, and I need to carry on because there's no other way."
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