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 about today's episode. It is part one of an Ask Me Anything special episode number 18. And part two will be out on Thursday.

Pretty much the last time I'm sitting down at this microphone for a little bit.

So I am super excited to get into all of your incredible, brilliant questions and talk about all the topics that you have burning or lingering questions about.

And I'm so excited.

I love, love, love these episodes. I love all your

amazing questions and this is going to be so much fun. Hi friends. I want to tell you about a very

important nutrient that many of us are deficient in and not even aware of it. And that nutrient is

light and specifically red light. I am so passionate and obsessed with the incredible amount of science behind red light therapy's

ability to support our mitochondrial health.

Now, our mitochondria, as you probably know, are responsible for helping us to do pretty

much everything in our bodies at the cellular level.

Now, when it comes to energy levels, our immunity, our skin health and beauty,

and even our metabolic health and fitness, so much is connected back to our mitochondria's

ability to function optimally.

Now, we talk on this podcast all the time about

different strategies from exercise, intermittent fasting, doing resistance training, and getting

lots of autophagy and all the science behind mitochondrial biogenesis or the creation of new mitochondria.

But one of the best ways to actually support our mitochondria is using red light

therapy. And we can do that in the comfort of our own homes with red light therapy panels. Now,

red light is a wavelength that is in the sun naturally, but so many of us spend over 90% of our

time indoors, especially in the wintertime. And we really are

deficient, not only in light, but specifically in the wavelengths of red light that really

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