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The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Heart rate variability, polyvagal theory, the flaw in trying to HACK the body, and more with Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Chronicfatigue, Energy, Hypothyroidism, Fatigue, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Chronicfatiguesyndrome, Adrenalfatigue, Howtoincreaseenergy, Adrenals, Hashimotos

4.7751 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

 

In this episode, I’m excited to welcome Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman back for the third time! Today, we continue our conversation on the overlooked importance of brain development but go on to explore heart rate variability (and how it can easily be misinterpreted), Polyvagal Theory, and her fascinating, physics-based thoughts on how our heart rate variability connects us to the universe!

In this podcast, Dr. Mel and I discuss:

  • An easy way to visualize brain development: the brainstem is the root that grows up into the trunk of our brain and branches off into the right and left hemispheres

  • The underlying driver of illness for many people with chronic symptoms and why gut or immune health might continue to suffer if this isn’t addressed

  • A clear, easy-to-understand explanation of heart rate variability and why this often-misinterpreted marker is crucial for vital health

  • The 10-second at-home test Dr. Mel recommends to better understand your heart rate variability findings AND the functioning of your vagus nerve!

  • Her physics-backed belief that our heart rate variability connects us to the “breath” or wave of the universe…and how this connection (or lack of connection!) relates to the vagus nerve, inflammation, nervous system development, and long-term health

  • 2 major predictors of mortality, i.e., how long you will live and the interesting pattern often found in people with autism

  • The extreme importance of working with the body and tracking test results versus cleverly attempting to biohack or manipulate the body with supplements or drugs 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

So the highest compliment I can give somebody is inviting them back for multiple rounds of conversation on this show.

0:14.9

So I'm really enjoying this conversation with you and exploring your way of thinking about health.

0:26.3

For me, it's a joy to kind of, you know,

0:32.0

let me put it this way. I think there are so many people out there who are sort of just kind of regurgitating the commonly taught stuff that's out there. And I'm really interested in having conversations

0:39.5

with original thinkers and people who are trying to put the pieces together in new ways and

0:44.4

solve problems in new ways and sort of take seemingly disparate areas of science and knowledge

0:52.1

and sort of combine them to generate new ideas and new solutions.

0:56.9

And I see that in you and I really appreciate this conversation,

1:00.5

this opportunity to explore your way of thinking more with you.

1:05.7

And I hope we can continue it, probably be on this conversation as well,

1:09.3

because there's so much to talk about and

1:11.4

i hope our listeners i know that our listeners from the feedback on part one are are enjoying it as well

1:17.7

and getting a lot of value from it so um with that said i want to pick up on where we left off

1:24.6

in the last conversation on brain development and the idea of two hemispheres

1:29.0

and how that sort of this seemingly sort of, I don't know what the right word is, like,

1:37.3

sort of obvious thing that's so obvious and so commonly taught in basic anatomy that it's sort of

1:42.6

overlooked as being unimportant,

1:45.4

you're making the claim that actually it is really important.

1:49.4

And this fact is something that we ought to pay attention to and has an impact on adult health

1:54.8

and how these hemispheres develop in different ways, depending on one's childhood environment and other factors.

2:04.5

So with that said, maybe you can give a very brief sort of recap of this because this will be

2:12.7

a week later after people listen to the last episode.

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