Host Verla Fortier
Verla's website https://treesmendus.com

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

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. 
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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. 

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