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

Hello, my friends, my beautiful optimizers. I am so excited to be here with you.

Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am really excited for this episode.

We're going to be talking about some absolutely fascinating insights

on the actual role of insulin and what it does in the body, especially with regards to the

macronutrients, fat, protein, and carb, what it means to have an insulin spike versus having a glucose spike and so much more.

And this is actually a primer for Monday's episode coming out with Craig Emmerich, the husband

and partner of Maria Emmerich. She is also coming on the podcast soon. But I am so excited for that episode. And I thought today we could

catch up a little bit and also give you a primer for some of the incredible, fascinating information

that we got to talk about in Monday's episode. So to kick things off, I'll give you a little bit of

an update on how things are going on our baby moon to Greece.

If you want to skip all of that, I will timestamp that in the show notes for you all.

And I am super excited to get into it. Now, before we jump into the episode fully, I want to take

a really quick moment to tell you about an incredible service that I absolutely love and I

think you will really love as well. Hi friends, 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

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