2025's Biggest Body Recomposition, Fat Loss & Protein Breakthroughs
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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In today's episode, I'm continuing our Best of 2025 series with a powerful follow-up to Friday's episode. Instead of an interview, this is a curated masterclass pulling together the most important breakthroughs of 2025 in body recomposition, fat loss, and protein metabolism — especially for women navigating perimenopause and midlife metabolic change.
You'll hear standout moments from conversations with Dr. Hannah Cabré, Dr. Arny Ferrando, and Dr. Mike Ormsbee, alongside a solo deep dive into one of the most exciting human randomized controlled trials published in 2025 on high-protein diets, accelerated belly-fat loss, and autophagy.
Full Episode with Dr. Hannah Cabré
Full Episode with Dr. Arny Ferrando
Full Episode with Dr. Mike Ormsbee
Full Episode on New Study on Protein Fasting Mimicking and Autophagy/Longevity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the optimal protein podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the optimal protein podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa. |
| 0:09.5 | Today's episode is a little different. It's a continuation of Friday's episode where I talked about the best of 2025. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm pulling together the most powerful paradigm shifting conversations and research insights |
| 0:24.6 | from new studies that came out in the past year. In this episode, you're going to hear four |
| 0:29.5 | clips that together tell a very clear story, especially for women who are focused on body |
| 0:35.8 | recomposition, fat loss, and protecting muscle as we age, |
| 0:40.0 | including boosting our longevity. We start with Dr. Hannah Cabray, unpacking why protein turnover |
| 0:47.5 | actually increases during perimenopause and why women often need more protein, not less. Then you'll hear from Dr. Arne Farrando |
| 0:57.8 | who explains in the clearest possible way how protein kinetics become less efficient during |
| 1:05.4 | menopause and even perimenopause and what that means and translates to for us and what we can do about it. |
| 1:12.5 | From there, we zoom out to body recomposition with Dr. Mike Ormsby, who delivers one of the most |
| 1:18.3 | important lessons of the year. If you only cut calories, you don't change your shape. |
| 1:23.4 | You just become a smaller version of the same shape. Real transformation requires resistance training with protein supporting that goal. |
| 1:32.3 | And we talk about his best recommendations for body composition and body recomposition. |
| 1:37.8 | And finally, I bring it all together covering one of the most exciting human randomized controlled trials of 2025, showing that |
| 1:45.8 | higher protein diets can reduce belly fat faster while still upregulating autophagy. |
| 1:52.6 | This directly challenges a very widely accepted belief that you need to fast or suppress your |
| 2:00.6 | protein to access metabolic benefits or |
| 2:04.7 | unlock longevity benefits. So this episode is more than just a bunch of best of clips. It's the new |
| 2:11.9 | rules for fat loss. Protein does not need to be suppressed for autophagy muscle is the goal and the body composition |
| 2:20.8 | shifts that happen for us it's a shift in physiology and there's a lot that we can actually do about |
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