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 excited to be here with you all today. It is the day

after the fourth. We had a big holiday long weekend here in the U.S. and I'm not sure if you all celebrated or you didn't,

but this episode we are going to kick things off with a little bit of a catch up. I want to get

caught up with you all that you know we have been up to while we've been here in Colorado,

what I've been eating, how I've been fasting, what I've been up to in general, and also sharing

my absolutely delicious and favorite salad dressing. A bunch of you were asking about it over

on Instagram, so we will chat about that too. And we are also going to talk about a really

interesting review on high protein diets. And as many of you know, I love review articles

because they really go in and look at all the research that has been done on a certain topic or

subject and they draw conclusions that have really potentially wide-ranging effects on

things like dietary guidelines and our understandings of what is actually effective

for fat loss in calorically restricted diets and just for body recomposition in general.

And our high protein diets actually harmful in any way.

So we're going to dig into that review together.

But I also want to catch up with you all

and just have some fun chat about intermittent fasting, food, what I've been doing in terms of my

fat loss, and just give you a little bit of insight into what I'm finding is working for me,

especially while we're traveling and all of that. So I can't wait to get into these

topics with you all on today's episode. Today's topic, of course, is protein, high protein

diets for fat loss. And I have announced recently that I am about to launch my own protein

supplement, which is called tone protein. And as a thank you to my beautiful listeners, all of you

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