Do you own a wearable such as a smart watch or Oura Ring? One that measures your heart rate? Host Amelia Phillips and GP Dr Torkil Færø discuss the fascinating data that can be really helpful on a health journey, from discovering how stressed we really are, to our sleep quality, or a measurement of our Vo2Max. While wearables may not be 100% accurate, the trends to track over time can be very telling.  With all this data, what elements should we be tracking and how do we interpret the data in a meaningful and useful way? Dr Torkil has written a fascinating book The Pulse Cure: a book that delves into the research behind wearables, particularly around heart rate variability.

Apps discussed: 

Athlytic: https://www.athlyticapp.com/ 

Eclipse for Apple Watch (email me for a free 3 month trial): https://eclipse.tantsissa.com/ 

About the guest:

Dr Torkil Færø is a GP and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, author and photographer. Over a 26-year career as a freelance doctor, he has worked all over Norway, had hundred thousand consultations and thus gained a unique picture of the diseases thatplague us. He learned that the causeis most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. When his father died at 73, he realised that he had to change his own lifestyle. Being40 pounds overweight, under-trained, over-stressed, under-slept and drinking
alcohol daily, he learned that this life-style could deprive him of decades.
Using wearables he found a way to track and regulate his nervous system and physiology. Færø is an award-winning photographer, author of The CameraCure, and has made TV films about his pilgrimages to Nidaros and Santiago de Compostela. An inveterate traveller, he has visited over 80 countries, and speaks eight languages. He lives in Norway.

Follow Dr Torkil on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dr.torkil/ 

Buy Dr Torkil's book The Pulse Cure: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-pulse-cure-torkil-f-ro/book/9781529437331.html 

About the host:

Amelia Phillips is a registered exercise scientist and nutritionist with a career spanning 26 years in health. She's a registered exercise scientist, nutritionist and researcher (with a Masters of Human Nutrition). She was the co-founder of health tech company 12WBT which grew from start-up and more recently Inner Vitality, an 8 week online program using biomarkers and personalised health that she runs with an Integrative GP.  Amelia also consults to health companies, presents and appears in the media, most recently on the Ch9 show Do You Want to Live Forever. Amelia had four kids in five years and is dedicated to empowering women to build a life after kids on the foundation of health (mental and physical), connection and purpose. 

If you have a question for Amelia, reach out via Insta @_amelia_phillips, email [email protected] 

Find out more at www.ameliaphillips.com.au

Find out more about Inner Vitality, a new approach to your health: https://innervitality.ameliaphillips.com.au/pages/ 

CREDITS
Host: Amelia Phillips                                                                                                        
Guest:  Dr Torkil Færø

Audio Producer: Darren Roth
Music: Matt Nicholich                                                                                                      Production Partner: Nova Entertainment Pty Ltd

Healthy Her acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. 
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information

 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.