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 super excited for today's episode. Dr. Nicole Huffman is joining us. She is a naturopathic MD, and her passion is really finding the root cause of her patient's imbalances.

We have a really great conversation today about fertility after 40 or around 40,

you know, sort of later life fertility and our both of our fertility journeys and what we

experience and some of the things that we, you know, added in to our routines

to really maximize opportunities for, you know, having the highest quality, egg quality

and more. And with such a fun discussion, we also got to talk about peptides quite a bit. And that

was sort of a primer for

another episode that I have coming up on, just on the topic of peptides. But she utilized some

peptides in her own fertility journey. And we get into what exactly they are and how they work.

And we also talk about how they're sort of different

from other kinds of amino acids and protein. So really great primer when it comes to that. But we got

into so many fun topics, ketosis, red light, and so much more. So I hope that you enjoy the

episode today about finding your fertility after 40 with

Dr. Nicole Huffman. Now, right before we jump into the episode, I want to take a really quick

moment to tell you about a company that I am so excited that is doing something absolutely

amazing when it comes to scientific breakthroughs.

Hi, friends. 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,

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