Vivek Menon is the Chief Customer Officer at Elite HRV, an app that provides accurate heart rate variability data and insights to stress and recovery. Their team believes heart rate variability is a powerful tool that can help individuals achieve their fitness and health goals. As Chief Commercial Officer, Vivek is in charge of consumer and provider engagement and making sure their needs are met with the purpose of accomplishing their wellbeing transformations.

Vivek joins us to discuss how Heart Rate Variability (HRV) can help determine stress and recovery levels as well as mental health. He describes how their app works, its accuracy, and how it can interpret HRV data. He explains the science behind HRV and how it relates with the body’s nervous system. Vivek also shares the different goals their tools can be used for, especially for those who are getting started on their fitness journey.

 

“Heart Rate Variability, at its core, is just an insightful biomarker.” - Vivek Menon

 

This week on The Lab Report Podcast:

• What is Heart Rate Variability, what it means, and why people should care.
• How our nervous system affects how we react and how we respond to everyday activity.
• What their app does and how it interprets heart rate data.
• How you can train the autonomic nervous system through heart rate variability.
• Determining whether your heart rate variability is good or bad.
• Training the vagus nerve using heart rate variability data.
• The physiological reason why deep breathing works for health and wellbeing.
• How athletes can take advantage of heart rate variability.

 

 

Connect with Vivek Menon: 

• Elite HRV
• Elite HRV Podcast

 

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