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Dr. Marco Altini - Unveiling the Science Behind Heart Rate Variability

Mar 19, 2024

Dr. Marco Altini, PhD, delves into heart rate variability (HRV) and its impact on stress, lifestyle, and health. They explore the effects of diet, sex differences, biofeedback, and wearables in tracking sleep. Learn about HRV measurement, individualized interpretation, and predicting sickness through physiological changes. Discover how lifestyle factors influence HRV and the limitations of wearable devices.

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Marco Altini

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Understanding heart rate variability (HRV), its measurement conditions, and the impact of lifestyle on HRV.

Exploring the significance of HRV biofeedback and simple stress-reducing actions for improving HRV.

Highlighting the importance of wearables in tracking health comprehensively, especially in monitoring sleep quality.

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Introduction

5min

Exploring Heart Rate Variability and Stress Responses

25min

Predicting Sickness Through Physiological Changes and Data Interpretation

2min

Understanding Heart Rate Variability Measurement in Wearable Devices

4min

Exploring the Impact of Lifestyle Factors on Heart Rate Variability

22min

Understanding Wearable Sleep Data

7min

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This week on the podcast Mikki speaks to Marco Altini, PhD, on heart rate, heart rate variability, stress and lifestyle. They discuss HRV, what it means, what affects it, how it is measured and the best conditions for doing so. They talk about the impact diet can have on HRV and sex related differences, whether or not these are clinically meaningful. They discuss also HRV Biofeedback and the impact that simple actions we can take for improving our stress response and HRV. Finally they also talk about wearables and the limitations (and benefits?) of tracking sleep.

Marco holds a PhD in applied machine learning, a M.Sc. in computer science engineering, and a M.Sc. n human movement sciences and high-performance coaching.

He has published more than 50 papers and patents at the intersection between physiology, health, technology, and human performance.

He is co-founder of HRV4Training, advisor at Oura, guest lecturer at VU Amsterdam, and editor for IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. He loves running.

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