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

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Optimal Protein podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa Spina,

and I am so excited for today's episode. We are going to be going through all of the biggest

mind-blowing moments, highlights, takeaways from the episode with Dr. Mark Madsen

and part two, which aired this Monday of this past week. And there really were some

mind-blowing moments. I have to say a couple of really huge ones for me. In particular, a lot of

highlights, a lot of big takeaways and i loved getting

to re-listen to the episode after having had the conversation and recording it with dr madsen

and just getting to think about it reflect on it consider some of the different important details and pieces

of information that were gleaned from this interview. And I can't wait to discuss them with you.

So that's what we're going to be talking about on today's episode right after a quick word

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