Oasis tour in danger unless Liam and Noel make big change as brothers warned

Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have both opened up about health issues in recent years. With their gruelling comeback tour a year away men's health expert Dr Jeff Foster, who is director of men's health at Manual, has indicated they may need to make some lifestyle changes if they want to get through the dates.

Noel, 57 and Liam, 53 and both have suffered with issues in recent years. In February last year Liam revealed he had undergone a hip replacement. In July Noel admitted having issues wth his knee. Speaking on the Matt Morgan podcast he said: "I’ve got bad knees actually. I’ve got to have an operation on my f***ing knee".

These health woes are independent of the the years of hard partying famously enjoyed by the pair which will also have taken their toll. On the same podacast Noel confessed: " I mean, the way I feel f*****g now, I mean I’ll be f*****g lucky if I make it to 60.”

Meanwhile Liam has admitted making some healthier choices in recent years. “You’ve got to undo all the bad work you’ve done through f***ing getting off your head and all that. It’s time to undo it all now and get back to reality. All that stuff that you thought was cool in the early days . . . it’s time to get healthy,” he said earlier this year.

This echoes advice from Dr Foster who says they need to treat training for the tour like an athlete preparing for competition. Acknowledging that their age is a factor he says "adrenaline" alone won't get them through.

Advising on what the brothers need to be aware of he said: "I guess from a day to day perspective, unlike previous episodes where you could purely run on adrenaline when you're in your 20s and perhaps fueled with other substances that might allow you to perform longer that I wouldn't be commenting on, nowadays I think you could say that realistically, your physiological reserve in your 50s is less than it was in your 20s.

"Even if you want to you can't start at 8am go through the day and keep going until the early hours of the morning. Your body simply won't let you as it used to. You simply cannot. There's a reason why people in their 50s don't play elite football or aren't premiership rugby players or whatever.

"So you have to take realisation to the fact that your days will need to be shorter. You can't have as long as stretch going through that process. You also can't rely on the adrenaline factor that youused to be able to to. You might do it for one day, but your recovery time is going to be longer than when it was younger.

"You can't train really hard and then wake up next morning and just do the same thing again. So you are going to have to build in longer recovery periods, and you're going to have to have shorter days exercising or performing, because your body will need that time to recover from the previous especially in terms of the adrenaline factor," he advised.

"They're [the concerts] going to be pure adrenaline processes. It's going to be a massive physical stress on your on your heart, on your brain, or your muscles. So the question is, what are they doing now in their lifestyle to try and prepare themselves for what is going to be effectively like a marathon run over 17 days," he commented referring to the amount of dates they have currently announced.

"Are they getting physically fit? Are they reducing their alcohol intake, not smoking, exercising more, focusing on their nutrition, all the sort of stuff you would do as an athlete to be ready for a physical exercise competition. And really, I would argue the only way you'll get through this in your mid 50s is to approach it as an elite sporting event, and you need to train in the same way to get to that point," he warned.

With a year to go to their comeback shows he advised they get tested now to see what they need to work on. "Have they had decent enough blood tests to make sure that we know that their blood levels are normal, their thyroids okay, that their testosterone is normal? We don't know this. So having all that kind of pre-done work is what you want to do six months before you go on stage, and then you can work to correct those problems so that you can go for it," he advised.

Dr Jeff Foster is director of men's health at Manual Men's Healthcare who currently have around 5,500 testosterone patients making them the biggest clinic in the UK exclusively dealing with male health.