Host Verla FortierVerla's website https://treesmendus.comVerla'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 IllnessTime 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 How HRV08:39 Why researchers love HRV09:30 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 psychologically11:29 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 process15:07 Covid and HRV research/Cancer and HRV16:10 I use a chest strap for one minute every morning with my free HRV app18:20 Greenspace balances nervous system19:10 HRV let's me know what is going on - have my own surveillance system  and treatment plan19:59 What happened to my HRV this summer. Didn't bounce back20:52 My GP ordered a 48  hour halter monitor test21:42 Revolution in personalized medicine22:15 Toronto Lupus Clinic, University Health Network looked at prolonged antimalarial treatment effects. Link: 23: 49 Can pick up heart conduction damage in EKG24:11 Your own personal data is power24:38 Reducing my medication with my GP and Specialist26:37 Know your own HRV baseline26:52 Time spent in green space balances HRV and resting heart rate28:48  Be co-custodian of your own health by using HRV and greenspace. For peer reviewed research on how your time spent in green space can change your mindset, balance your nervous system and your heart rate please go to verlafortier.substack.com and check out my books Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness and Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance Your Mind and Body With Green Space

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