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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In this episode, I am speaking with Vanessa Spina also known as the Ketogirl. We will talk about fasting, time-restricted feeding, ketosis, and carbs and how you can improve your body composition using these tools.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. With me today is Vanessa Spina, who is a sport nutrition specialist and biomedical scientist and the best-selling author of Keto Essentials. |
0:21.9 | In this episode, we focus on her take on how to do intermittent fasting, time-restricted |
0:26.8 | eating, and how to optimize your carb intake for your specific goals and personal context. |
0:33.2 | So enjoy hearing Vanessa's take on all of these subjects and how to best do these things in your life. |
0:40.4 | So welcome to the show, Vanessa. Such a pleasure to have you. |
0:43.5 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm truly honored to get to chat with you today. |
0:48.5 | Okay. So let's jump straight into it. So the focus of your work is very much centered around body composition. |
0:56.1 | Tell me why. |
0:57.4 | Why is body composition so important? |
0:59.3 | Is it just for vanity, for aesthetics, or is there something beyond that? |
1:05.1 | I think so many of the things that we do in life to overall improve our health, it really can improve so many different areas. |
1:12.7 | So, for example, with body composition, I tend to equate it back to metabolic health. |
1:18.2 | And so the reason I'm really passionate about people improving their body composition is that if you do so, you will naturally improve your metabolic health. |
1:27.4 | And for that reason, you will naturally improve your metabolic health. And for that reason, you will |
1:29.4 | naturally live a more a fuller life, a more active life, a more energized life, and be stronger |
1:35.6 | so that you can pursue all your dreams and also, you know, maybe be able to do more of the |
1:41.8 | things that you want to do later in life. And I'm really passionate about that entire topic. Okay. So there is a group of people, including some obesity |
1:55.2 | scientists, but it's certainly not the dominant position, who say that being overweight doesn't relate to one's metabolic health |
2:06.1 | very strongly and that it's possible to be a metabolically healthy obese person or overweight |
2:14.3 | person. What are your thoughts on that, um, that, that school of thought? |
2:23.0 | That's a fiery question we're starting off with, but for me, you're not going to offend me, |
2:28.3 | just so you know. There might be some people out there that that could be offended depending on how you |
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