Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Optimal Protein podcast. I am your host, Vanessa Spina.

I am so excited for today's episode. We're going to be talking about the highlights, takeaways,

and the most powerful bits of information that I was able to glean from my interview with

Dr. Mark Madsen that I interviewed on Monday's episode. Part two of that episode is going to be

coming out on the following upcoming Monday next week. But today's episode, we are going to recap

the most important information in my opinion that came out of that episode

and I'm so excited to talk about it with you guys. And all of that is coming up right after a

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