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

Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa

Spina. I am so excited for today's episode. We're going to be talking about intermittent fasting

and different approaches to intermittent fasting, the differences between intermittent fasting and

caloric restriction, and some of the amazing research that's been done on intermittent fasting

by Dr. Mark Madsen, who is one of the most prolific neuroscientists and researchers in the world when it comes to intermittent

fasting. I've been reading his wonderful book, which is the intermittent fasting revolution.

And he talks all about the science of optimizing our health and enhancing performance with

intermittent fasting. So I want to talk

about some of the core concepts when it comes to this approach to eating and not eating so much.

So that's going to be our topic for today. I can't wait to get into it after a really quick

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