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. I love

these Thursday solo cast. I have a really big announcement that I'm going to be starting off the episode with.

I can't wait to share the news with you all.

This is something I've been working on for a while now.

And I'm just so excited to share the big news with all of you.

And on today's episode, following that, we are going to be talking about the key highlights,

those practical takeaways that we can put into practice to directly enhance and improve

our lives, our health, our overall wellness, and thrive more and more from Monday's

episode, which was absolutely fascinating with Dr.

Jalal Khan, where we talked about obesity and what obesity really means as well as energy toxicity

in terms of a quantum biology perspective. And it just had so many fascinating mind-blowing moments.

We talked a lot about leptin and a lot about how lining up with our circadian rhythm

can really help our bodies to have proper energy management and communication with our hormones.

So I'm so excited to recap those top takeaways and highlights. And I'm so excited

to share my big news with you all, which we are going to kick off today's episode with.

Now, before we jump into today'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

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