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 for today's episode. We have my friend Maria Emmerich joining us. She is such a prolific author and speaker and presenter. And she has really helped so many people to get a hold or get a grasp

on their metabolic health by educating and teaching about the principles behind keto oxidative

priority and so much more. In today's episode, we get to talk about some of my favorite topics, eating high protein, changing your intermittent fasting approach, which Maria has recently done. She's also made some changes to her protein intake and also her types of exercise, including resistance training. We talk about protein sparing modified fasting

versus fasting and so much more. I know you're going to get a ton of takeaways from this

episode with Maria and I had so much fun chatting with her as usual. If you are in our Facebook group,

which is called the Optimal Protein Podcast on

Facebook, be sure to share what your top takeaways or highlights were or tag us over on

Instagram and social media because we absolutely love hearing from you and hearing what stood

out for you or just knowing where you're listening from. It is so much fun

to get that feedback. I would absolutely love to hear from you guys and be sure to tag Maria

and I in your stories if you do share where you're listening to this podcast or what stood out for you.

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