The Mindbodygreen Podcast

“HRV has been correlated with longevity, resilience, enhanced health, and even elite performance,” says Leah Lagos, Psy.D, B.C.B.  Lagos, a health and performance psychologist with an expertise in heart rate variability biofeedback, joins us today to discuss the power of improving heart rate variability for longevity and resilience, plus:  - What is HRV (~1:36) - Longevity and HRV (~3:55) - Factors influencing HRV (~5:02) - Lifestyle factors (~6:25)  - The power of data (~11:27) - Breathwork and HRV (~14:41) - Accuracy of wearables (~21:05) - Individuality of HRV (~21:15) - Environmental factors on HRV (~27:35) - HRV training (~30:50) - Temperature and HRV (~32:20) - Gender differences (~33:00) - Aging and HRV (~34:45) - How women should think about HRV (~37:00) - Mind body connection and breathwork (~43:00) - Interesting findings from Lagos’ work (~48:38) - Joe Mazzulla’s experience with HRV training (~52:40) - The future of HRV (~54:43) - Music’s impact on the nervous system (~1:00:10) Referenced in the