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

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Vanessa. On today's episode,

we have Dr. Dennis joining us. He is a doctor who specializes in strategies to improve

metabolic health and metabolic fitness. And on today's episode, we talk about his six

principles for fat loss and fat burning and all of the different strategies that he thinks are the

most effective for people to lose body fat, improve their metabolic health and fitness, and

improve insulin sensitivity, as well as body

composition. We also talk about hormone optimization for women and testosterone, which was really

interesting to me, which I haven't talked about a ton with other hormone experts on the podcast.

So I hope that you enjoyed the episode. Feel free to comment any

takeaways or anything that you learned from the episode in our Facebook group, which is the

optimal protein podcast on Facebook. Now before we jump into the episode, I want to take a quick

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Now, did you know that fat burning can actually be measured through our breath? Now, this is

something that I found absolutely fascinating. When our bodies start really ramping up fat burning,

we actually breathe out our fat. We breathe out the carbons that are in our stored body fat. And this is

something called acetone. So it's known as a breath ketone.

And when we get into really high rates of fat burning, when we're doing carb restriction or intermittent

fasting or even prolonged fasting, our bodies really ramp up the amount of body fat that we burn.

And as our bodies start to convert some of that body fat into ketones, those ketones

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