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.

Today's episode, we are going to be talking all about fasting. We're going to talk a little bit about intermittent fasting, especially how my first episodes of co-hosting the intermittent fasting podcast with my dear friend Melanie Avalon went.

We're going to start off talking about that.

Also, I just recently finished doing my seasonal extended five-day fast.

I do them four times a year with the changing of the seasons, and I want to let you know

how that went. And also some of the processes that occur during an extended fast and why I did it,

what goes on in the body in terms of a tophagy. That's really the main key here. And my topagy,

and we're going to get into all of that on today's

episode i really can't wait and we're going to start off talking about how recording the very

first couple of episodes of the intermittent fasting podcast went it's a new role for me co-hosting

and being a co-host with my dear friend Melanie and I can't wait to let you

all know how it went. Before we jump into today's episode, 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

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