Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so excited for today's

episode. We're going to be chatting about my six-week experiment with a new intermittent fasting

pattern and some thoughts I've had about it, some conclusions, some theories,

if you will, as to why some of the things that happened occurred, like having a higher rate

of fat burning, having higher ketones than I did when I was doing my 16-8 pattern of lunch

and dinner. And I'm really excited to chat with you all about it. So with a quick word

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