#46: Ronda Collier
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Host Brad Kearns talks with Brock Armstrong (the voice of the MDA blog podcasts and a Sweetbeat ambassador/product tester) and Ronda Collier, CEO of Sweetwater Health, makers of the Sweetbeat Life iOS application. Sweetbeat Life allows for convenient Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measuring and information storage. This discussion will acquaint listeners with the basics of HRV, and proceed quickly to discuss some of the finer points of HRV’s effectiveness in monitoring stress and recovery. Heart Rate Variability is a measurement of the variation in intervals between heartbeats. More variation indicates better cardiovascular fitness and stress management, and is represented in a higher HRV number on a 1-100 scale.
Finer details of this show’s discussion include: how Low Frequency (LF) and High Frequency (HF) values correlate with sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity; techniques for how to moderate your stress response and improve your recovery through breathing exercises, yoga, meditation, and extra sleep; and a step-by-step process for how to get started in HRV monitoring (buying the proper equipment, operating the Sweetbeat Life app smoothly, and understanding how to best use the informational graphs generated by the app). This is a fantastic show to help you jump head first into the amazing health technology of Heart Rate Variability!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal, |
| 0:06.7 | including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder, Mark Sisson. Special guest interviews hosted |
| 0:12.9 | by Mark Sisson in conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts. |
| 0:19.7 | The show is presented by damage control, master formula, |
| 0:23.3 | the world's most potent multivitamin, mineral, antioxidant, anti-aging supplement, |
| 0:28.9 | available at primal blueprint.com. |
| 0:32.6 | Past episodes are available for download |
| 0:34.7 | or to review written summaries at blog. |
| 0:37.2 | com. |
| 0:39.3 | And now here's your host, Brad Kearns. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, and we have a triple threat today with our main man, sound engineer and the voice of the Marks Daly Apple podcast, Brock Armstrong. |
| 0:56.2 | Thanks for coming on, Brock. |
| 0:57.5 | Thanks. |
| 0:57.8 | In Canada, we call this a hat trick. |
| 1:00.1 | A hat trick. |
| 1:01.0 | And a very special guest, Rhonda Collier from Sweetwater Health, makers of the incredible |
| 1:07.8 | Sweet Beat Life, HRV monitoring system application. Ronda, thanks so much for coming |
| 1:14.1 | on to talk about HRV today. Oh, thank you so much for having me. Um, so you, we know that Brock is, |
| 1:21.7 | uh, one of your favorite guys. He's one of your, he's one of your foot soldiers that's really |
| 1:26.7 | deeply into this. And Brock, you know, |
| 1:29.8 | you got Mark and I extremely interested in this concept and sent us all the links and introduced |
| 1:35.0 | us to Rhonda and Sweet Beat Life. So I thought today that we could have a quick moving discussion |
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