cover of episode #829 - Dr Leah Lagos - How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability

#829 - Dr Leah Lagos - How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability

2024/8/24
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HRV was initially used to assess the health of unborn babies and later became a metric for cardiovascular health and other conditions. A subset of researchers and practitioners, including Dr. Lagos, began exploring its potential for improving overall well-being and performance in healthy individuals.
  • HRV was originally used to predict the vitality of unborn babies.
  • It later became a metric for cardiovascular health and other conditions.
  • Dr. Lagos has been researching and practicing HRV for overall well-being and performance enhancement in healthy individuals for the past 17 years.

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Dr Leah Lagos is a clinical psychologist, HRV performance coach and an author.

Heart Rate Variability is one of the most important new metrics that people are using to gauge heart health, longevity and fitness, but improving it can be a minefield. Thankfully Dr Lagos has spent decades optimising the HRVs of some of the world's highest performers and today we get to hear her best advice.

Expect to learn the crucial relationship between HRV and your brain function plus heart health, the best way to improve your HRV, what most people get wrong when trying to optimise their HRV, the most surprising factors that can impact your HRV, the role of breath, stress and fitness and much more...

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