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Boundless Life

A Deep Dive Into HRV: The Myths & Truths of Heart Rate Variability Testing

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Australian HRV researcher Dr. James Heathers (pictured above) is one interesting dude. On a professional level, he is a Ph.D and an Endeavour Research Fellow in Electrocardiology at Poznan University of Medical Science, where...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Ben Greenfield here and I hope you're ready to strap on your propeller hat because

0:06.8

today's podcast actually involves a pretty deep dive into something called heart rate variability.

0:13.3

And I got to be honest with you, I was a little bit afraid during about the first 20 minutes

0:17.7

of this episode that this was just going to be extremely theoretical blue sky stuff.

0:24.2

But especially towards the end of the episode, we got into some really interesting discussions

0:27.6

about everything from how supplements and medications affect HRV to do it yourself, ECG monitoring

0:35.5

that's literally the same quality as you can get at a hospital to the concept of using

0:40.3

something called metabolic breathing ladders.

0:43.3

And it really turned into a quite interesting yet still very nerdy discussion.

0:49.4

So a couple of things.

0:50.9

First of all, all of the show notes for this episode because there's plenty of links

0:54.6

to research articles, etc are over at bengreenfieldfinance.com slash advanced HRV.

1:02.3

And then second, I honestly do not expect you to understand much of this episode unless

1:10.0

you have a basic understanding of heart rate variability and HRV going into listening to

1:16.5

this.

1:17.5

So if you don't have an understanding of HRV or heart rate variability, don't start here.

1:22.8

There are other podcasts over at bengreenfieldfinance.com.

1:26.0

I'm going to link to the best three podcasts and the best two articles that I've ever had

1:33.3

appear over on the website that you can use as a way to really learn everything that you

1:38.4

need to know about HRV prior to taking this deep dive into HRV.

1:43.6

So I'll put links to all of that stuff along with all of the show notes for this episode

1:48.7

over at bengreenfieldfinance.com slash advanced HRV.

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