Using HRV to optimize sleep quality and recovery
30 episodes
Dr. Peter Attia
Peter Attia answers listener questions about HRV fundamentals: what it means, why it matters, and how to measure, interpret, and potentially improve it. Also covers alcohol's impact on HRV and sleep.
Dr. Andrew Huberman
Explores the vagus nerve's role in regulating HRV, mood, and recovery. Discusses deliberate practices to increase vagal tone and elevate HRV throughout the day and during sleep.
Ben Greenfield with Dr. Jay Wiles
Comprehensive guide to using HRV for recovery, performance, sleep, and stress optimization. Dr. Jay Wiles, a clinical psychologist specializing in HRV, covers the science and practical applications.
Ben Greenfield
How stress, supplements, sleep, and lifestyle factors affect your nervous system as measured by HRV. Covers the latest research and practical protocols for HRV optimization.
Tim Ferriss with Dr. Andrew Huberman
Wide-ranging conversation covering breathing techniques, stress reduction, and sleep optimization. Includes detailed discussion of physiological sighs and their effect on heart rate and HRV.
Kristen Holmes & Emily Capodilupo
WHOOP's VP of Performance and Director of Analytics give a complete breakdown of HRV - what it is, how it's measured, what affects it, and how to improve it. Covers how WHOOP uses HRV to calculate...
Floris Gierman with Marco Altini
HRV4Training founder Marco Altini explains HRV fundamentals, measurement best practices, improving HRV through sleep and breathwork, and how to use HRV data for race tapering and training decisions.
Dr. Matt Walker
Sleep scientist Matt Walker unpacks the science behind HRV and explores actionable strategies to improve this critical marker of overall health. Covers how sleep, exercise, stress management, and...
Dr. Andrew Huberman with Dr. Andy Galpin
Episode 5 of the Huberman-Galpin series on fitness. Dr. Andy Galpin explains how to optimize post-training recovery, avoid overtraining, and use HRV as a recovery marker. Covers strategies for...
Mollie McGlocklin with Dr. Deborah Rozman
HeartMath President Dr. Deborah Rozman discusses how daily HRV coherence training improves sleep quality. HeartMath has 25+ years of research on the psychophysiology of stress, emotions, and...
Katie Wells with Harpreet Rai
Oura Ring CEO Harpreet Rai discusses tracking HRV, sleep quality, and movement. Addresses real-life sleep challenges like kids, working late, and electronics, and how to use HRV data to improve...
Dr. Peter Attia with Bob Kaplan
Peter Attia's Ask Me Anything episode covering HRV fundamentals - what it means, why it matters, and how to measure, interpret, and elevate it. Also covers alcohol's negative impact on sleep and...
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss answers listener questions covering HRV training with breathwork. Recommends Dr. Leah Lagos and her book on using breathwork as the API to the autonomous nervous system for HRV optimization.
Floris Gierman with Marco Altini
HRV4Training founder Marco Altini explains how heart rate variability provides insights to quantify stress and balance training. Covers how to measure HRV, improve it through sleep and breathwork,...
SweatElite with Marco Altini
HRV4Training creator Marco Altini discusses the effects of stress on human performance and how to measure physiological stress affordably using a phone camera. Covers combining HRV with subjective...
Gary Brecka with Will Ahmed
Gary Brecka sits down with WHOOP CEO Will Ahmed for a deep dive into wearable technology and big data. Covers HRV science, sleep tracking optimization, and predictive analytics for identifying...
Mollie McGlocklin with Dr. Jay Wiles
Hanu Health founder Dr. Jay Wiles explains what HRV actually means and why its important for sleep. Covers devices for tracking, how alcohol and THC affect HRV, whether you can shift your...
Ben Greenfield with Keith Rabois
Founders Fund partner Keith Rabois shares how he tracks heart rate metrics including resting HR, 2-minute recovery, and HRV. Discusses correlations between metrics, optimizing workouts, sleep...
Will Ahmed with Kristen Holmes & Emily Capodilupo
WHOOPs foundational HRV episode. VP of Performance Kristen Holmes and Director of Analytics Emily Capodilupo explain what HRV is, how its measured, why it indicates fitness, and lifestyle choices...
Will Ahmed
Compilation episode featuring HRV insights from researchers, athletes, and wellness experts. Includes Dr. Daniel Plews on rolling averages, Steve-O on meditation effects, Bryan Johnson on HRV...
Will Ahmed with Kristen Holmes & Emily Capodilupo
VP Kristen Holmes and SVP Emily Capodilupo share scientifically-validated tips for improving HRV. Covers adaptive behaviors, why HRV is personalized, menstruation and pregnancy impacts, sleep...
School of Calisthenics with Dr. Jay Wiles
Dr. Jay Wiles explains HRV as a leading marker professional athletes use to track stress, recovery, and performance. Covers what HRV is, its origins, and how to use it for monitoring sleep,...
Simon Ward with Patrick McKeown
Patrick McKeown explains why efficient breathing is fundamental for human performance. Covers nose breathing for aerobic fitness, BOLT score impacts on sleep quality, recovery, HRV and stress...
Mollie McGlocklin with Dr. Dave Rabin
Dr. Dave Rabin introduces SmartVibes AI that learns stress levels and sleep quality to deliver personalized soothing vibrations. Covers feeling safe to sleep, cardiorespiratory resonance, middle...
Claudia von Boeselager with Dr. Dave Rabin
Dr. Dave Rabin discusses Apollo Neurosciences revolutionary wearable that uses touch therapy for sleep, relaxation, focus and calm. Covers impact of smartphone overstimulation, meditation,...
Dave Asprey with Dr. David Rabin
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. David Rabin discusses stress-sleep connections with Apollo Neuro research showing 14% increases in REM sleep, 11% increases in HRV, and 4% reduction in resting...
TeamBuildr with Joel Jamieson
Strength and conditioning authority Joel Jamieson discusses HRV as his favorite metric for measuring athlete recovery and how coaches can use it to make training adjustments. Covers importance of...
Mike Mutzel with Harpreet Rai
OURA Ring CEO Harpreet Rai discusses how HRV serves as a key stress indicator and the relationship between sleep architecture and HRV. Covers how the OURA ring measures every heartbeat throughout...
Floris Gierman with Dr. Marco Altini
Marco Altini, founder of HRV4Training and data science advisor at Oura, discusses how HRV helps quantify stress and balance training. Covers how to measure HRV, improving it through sleep and...
SweatElite Team with Marco Altini
Marco Altini of HRV4Training discusses how to use HRV to measure stress and optimize training timing. The app combines HRV with subjective annotations of sleep, motivation, and muscle soreness to...
