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 happy to be here with you all today.

We are talking about some really interesting topics, including rapid fat loss diets, which we were talking about on Monday's episode with Dr. Bill Campbell.

And also we're going to do a little bit of a deep dive today on thermogenesis or dietary

induced thermogenesis, which makes up up to 10% of our total metabolic rate.

How this concept, specifically understanding it and maximizing it with the power

of protein can help you to get to your body composition goals. So 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

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