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

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

I am so happy to be here with you all. On today's episode, we are going to be talking about some

research on muscle growth and getting lean and staying lean.

And we're going to be talking about two things in particular.

The first is nutrient timing and protein timing and the effect on muscle growth.

And the other is red light therapy and how it has been proven scientifically to actually help us to grow skeletal muscle and also to help

with body composition and also body contouring, which you've covered in a past episode. So I'm

super excited to talk to you all on this episode about these really interesting studies about

protein timing and the effects of red light therapy on muscle growth. Now, before we

jump into 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

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