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

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. Happy Thursday. Happy June 1st. I'm your host, Vanessa Spina.

And I am so pumped to be here with you today. We are going to be talking about some updates. I want to share with you all about our recent family holiday in Greece

and all the amazing food and all the amazing circadian health things that we were doing there

and a little bit about the new intermittent fasting pattern that I am doing an experiment with right

now and also going to talk about the cost of being

lean, which was my biggest takeaway from Monday's interview with Kelly and Juliette Starratt.

So I can't wait to chat with you all about all these fun topics on today's episode.

Now 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 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, especially

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