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All right, phenomenal podcast coming your way.

We are unveiling a major whoop research effort with the U.S. Army in Alaska.

We've put whoops on over 1 a thousand army personnel in the Arctic to better

understand how their bodies respond to high stress environments.

As we know, it gets cold in Alaska, and sunlight is especially hard to come by this time of year.

The Army has partnered with whoop to study how circadian alignment impacts physiological

metrics, heart rate variability, and self-reported measures of resilience. Our director of military

teams, Robert Mueller, is behind the mic this week and sits down with VP of Performance,

Kristen Holmes, and Army Chief Warrant Officer Phil Rank. They discuss what the

Army and Woop hope to learn about resilience through the lens of physiological data,

everything you need to know about HRV and why it's an excellent indicator of how your body

is handling stress, the importance of examining sleep quality in soldiers,

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