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 happy to be here with you all, sending you all some amazing Friday energy.

And today's episode, we're going to be doing a little bit of catch up. And also, I'm pretty sure this is going to be my last

solo cast for a little while before I have baby number two and the holidays start. And so we're

going to catch up a bit. And we are going to be talking specifically about a few different studies

that looked at the differences between ketogenic diets and non-ketogenic diets for both

body recomposition in terms of fat loss and also lean body mass gain. And specifically, one of the

studies is with resistance trained women who are doing either a ketogenic diet or non-ketogenic diet.

So really excited to break down some of these studies with you all on today's episode.

And I can't wait to get into it.

So before we fully jump in, 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, our skin health and beauty, and even our metabolic health and fitness, so much is

connected back to our mitochondria's ability to

function optimally. Now we talk on this podcast all the time about different strategies from exercise,

intermittent fasting, doing resistance training, and getting lots of autophagy and all the science

behind mitochondrial biogenesis or the creation of new mitochondria.

But one of the best ways to actually support our mitochondria is using red light therapy.

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