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 pumped for

today's episode. We are talking about females and fasting really when it comes down to it.

In particular, how intermittent fasting can be especially helpful for women who are looking

for weight loss who are looking for hormonal optimization especially when it comes to issues like

hyper androgenism i know it's a huge word but this is regarding women who have PCOS who have

issues with menstruation fertility and, and quality of life.

And I'm so excited to dig into this incredible research review that was done on intermittent

fasting and examining different forms of intermittent fasting from time-restricted eating,

which is what we mostly talk about on this podcast to also alternate day fasting and the

5-2 approach. I'm so excited to dig into this research

review with you all today I just think this is such interesting information and can be so

helpful to women in particular who are dealing with being overweight being obese issues

of quality of life with infertility hormonal dysregulation relating to monthly cycles.

I just can't wait to get into this episode with you all.

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.

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