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 talking with Danielle Hamilton. She is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and restorative wellness practitioner. And she specializes in blood sugar regulation and digestion. We talk a ton today about

protein, the exact right amount of protein to get to get yourself off the blood sugar roller

coaster and reduce insulin resistance and correct appetite. We talk all about how it affected us individually in our lives. She talks

about her personal story of going to paleo and then figuring out that she had diabetes of the

ovaries or PCOS. And it's a lot of talk about protein, optimal protein, and how to make sure you're

not actually getting too much protein where your body can't really keep up with it. And if you have low

stomach acid, we talk about the symptoms associated with that and what you can actually do to

help your body break down and digest and assimilate that protein better because it is so important if you are

optimizing your protein intake to make sure that your body is also able to break it down

and she shares some really awesome hacks on how to do that at the end of the podcast. So

be sure to stay tuned for that. And before we jump into today's's episode 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

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