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 super pumped

for today's episode. We are reviewing two different studies and their impacts on fat loss and

body composition. The first one is comparing time restricted feeding with standard

caloric restriction and seeing which one had the better outcome. And the second one is about

drinking water and if it has an effect on fat loss. So two really great topics of both of

these studies are from Dr. Bill Campbell's February issue of Body By Science, which is his research

review. It is absolutely wonderful. I am so excited to break it all down with you on today's episode.

Before we start the 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 lots of autophagy and all the science behind mitochondrial

biogenesis or the creation of new mitochondria.

But one of the best ways to actually support our mitochondria is using red light therapy.

And we can do that in the comfort of our own homes with red light therapy panels.

Now red light is a wavelength that is in the sun naturally, but so many of us spend over 90% of our time indoors,

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