Dr. Bing Zhao: “Short Term Exposure (3 Days or Less) in Air Pollution Increases Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest — Men and Women over 65 more susceptible.”

Dr. Bing Zhao: “Short Term Exposure (3 Days or Less) in Air Pollution Increases Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest — Men and Women over 65 more susceptible.”

Dr. Bing Zhao  is a geriatric doctor in the first university of science and technology of China. This hospital is in  Hefei, a city located in the east China with a population of more than 9 million. She completed her medicine degree in China and PhD in University of Tasmania in Australia. Then she went […]

Stephen Leahy Award Winning International Environmental Journalist and The Good News in Climate Action

Stephen Leahy Award Winning International Environmental Journalist and The Good News in Climate Action

Stephen Leahy is an award-winning international environmental journalist with over 25 years of experience in the field. His work has been published in a wide range of prestigious publications around the world, including National Geographic, The Guardian, Vice, New Scientist, Maclean’s, Al Jazeera, and many others. Leahy’s journalism focuses on critical environmental issues such as […]

Outsmart Your Pain with Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD

Outsmart Your Pain with  Christiane Wolf,  MD, PhD

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD is a former physician and an internationally known mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. She is passionate about translating ancient wisdom teachings into accessible and applicable modern-day language. She aims to live from the heart informed by the brain and inspires her students to explore the same.  She is the author of […]

Dr. Patrycja Matusik, Physician-Radiologist: HRV and Systemic Lupus

Dr. Patrycja Matusik, Physician-Radiologist: HRV and Systemic Lupus

Dr. Patrycja Matusik is a physician-radiologist at University Hospital, Kraków, Poland. She completed her medicine degree and PhD at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In her work she focuses primarily on cardiovascular imaging, lung diseases and neuroimaging.   In her scientific work, one of the main directions is heart rate variability (HRV). She went to the […]

K Tselios, MD, McMaster University: “Why are lupus patients are 50% more likely to have heart attacks than people without lupus?”

K Tselios, MD, McMaster University: “Why are  lupus patients are 50%  more likely to  have heart attacks than people without lupus?”

  Dr. Tselios is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Division of Rheumatology at McMaster University since 2021. He completed his basic training and PhD in Greece and came to Canada in 2014 where he worked as a post-doc fellow with the University of Toronto Lupus Clinic. His main clinical and research interest is […]

How Knowing My Heart Rate Variability or HRV Became A Game Changer For Me as a Lupus Patient

How Knowing My Heart Rate Variability or HRV Became A Game Changer For Me as a Lupus Patient

  Host Verla FortierVerla’s website https://treesmendus.com Podcast Time stamp:  03:00 My lupus diagnosis04:00 Green space research changed everything04:48 Sudden cardiac death of my best friend05:40 Take 3 minutes outside in green space06:27 HRV not captured on bedside heart monitors06:50 What is HRV07:24 Episode #30 Optimize Your Heart Rate is about  resting heart rate 08:11 High HRV08:18 […]

Ernesto Rodriguez: Nature Images In Hospitals and Classrooms

Ernesto Rodriguez: Nature Images In Hospitals and Classrooms

Ernesto Rodriguez, Executive Director Nature In  The Classroom (tree mural ceilings) and in hospitals Sereneview (nature  mural hospital curtains). Shownote  Timeline 3:45 Ernesto grew up in Cuba, grandfather a renown muralist 6:30  Visited  his friend in hospital (got the creeps). Then went to assignment in the Redwood Forest. As  he  was waiting for the light […]

Michelle Olson, Social Gerontologist Combines Expressive Arts with Outdoor Therapy for Dementia Care

Michelle Olson, Social Gerontologist Combines Expressive Arts with Outdoor Therapy for Dementia Care

Michelle Olson, PhD, LCAT, ATR-BC, ACC/MC  Founder, Executive Director www.evergreenminds.org   Verla’s website https://treesmendus.com New book Optimize Your Heart Rate: BalanceYour Mind and Body With Green Space.  Previous book Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness Your Outside Mindset Podcast Interview Episode #34 with Michelle Olson Time line: 1:19 Michelle Olson is […]