Verla’s website https://treesmendus.com
Podcast Time stamp:
03:00 My lupus diagnosis
04:00 Green space research changed everything
04:48 Sudden cardiac death of my best friend
05:40 Take 3 minutes outside in green space
06:27 HRV not captured on bedside heart monitors
06:50 What is HRV
07:24 Episode #30 Optimize Your Heart Rate is about resting heart rate
08:11 High HRV
08:18 How HRV
08:39 Why researchers love HRV
09:30 HRV measures fitness of your heart and your entire autonomic nervous system in one metric.
10:16 One HRV metric captures how much stress you are under – physiologically and psychologically
11:29 HRV study in 2013 of 22K people without heart disease showed low HRV is indicative of first heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest (by 40 percent)
13:19 Low HRV early warning system for heart malfunction and accompanies a range of diseases
14:15 Marsuik research showed lupus patients may have low HRV as a result of cytokines, not disease process
15:07 Covid and HRV research/Cancer and HRV
16:10 I use a chest strap for one minute every morning with my free HRV app
18:20 Greenspace balances nervous system
19:10 HRV let’s me know what is going on – have my own surveillance system and treatment plan
19:59 What happened to my HRV this summer. Didn’t bounce back
20:52 My GP ordered a 48 hour halter monitor test
21:42 Revolution in personalized medicine
22:15 Toronto Lupus Clinic, University Health Network looked at prolonged antimalarial treatment effects.
23: 49 Can pick up heart conduction damage in EKG
24:11 Your own personal data is power
24:38 Reducing my medication with my GP and Specialist
26:37 Know your own HRV baseline
26:52 Time spent in green space balances HRV and resting heart rate
28:48 Be co-custodian of your own health by using HRV and greenspace.
Verla’s new book Optimize Your Heart Rate: BalanceYour Mind and Body With Green Space.
Verla’s previous book Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness
