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.

Today we are talking about some super interesting research, a new study on diet breaks, and the best way to approach dieting whether using or implementing

diet breaks or foregoing them entirely. And this is a brand new study that just came out in

March of 2023 and I'm super excited to break it down with you all. We also have some other

interesting studies to get into.

There was a really interesting study looking at protein distribution throughout the day

and whether distributing your protein evenly at your meals or not has an effect on your muscle gain. And finally, do low carb diets increase

energy expenditure? So some really interesting topics to get into today. I really can't wait

to break down all of these amazing studies with you all and talk about the results and the

findings and the takeaways that

we can implement into our lives and make changes for the better to better our body composition

in the best way possible. Now before we 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

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