Podcasts about suggestible you

Timestamp* 1:00 - Background and Sports Journey: Dr. Altini shares his academic journey in computer science, engineering, and data science, alongside his personal transition into endurance sports​​.* 3:31 - Defining HRV and How It Differs from Heart Rate: Understanding HRV as the variation in time between consecutive heartbeats, which reflects the autonomic nervous system's response to stress​​.* 8:10 - Clarifying Common HRV Myths: Dr. Altini dispels misconceptions such as the importance of absolute HRV values and the notion that higher HRV is always better​​.* 11:40 - Making the Case for HRV: Despite limitations, HRV provides unique insights into the body's stress response, which can inform training and lifestyle adjustments​​.* 14:10 - HRV in Free-Living Analysis: Large-scale research reveals that HRV is a more sensitive marker of stress than resting heart rate, and different stressors elicit varying physiological responses​​.* 18:45 - Validating Smartphone-Based HRV Measurement: Dr. Altini discusses how the HRV4Training app, using smartphone cameras, was proven to be as accurate as chest straps and ECGs​​.* 21:55 - Practical HRV Monitoring with HRV4Training: The app helps athletes accurately measure HRV, providing actionable insights based solely on physiological data while allowing users to add context manually​​.* 26:10 - Unique Features of HRV4Training: The app's focus on raw physiological data offers a clear distinction from competitors, who often combine behavioral data to produce composite scores​​.* 32:50 - HRV in Night vs. Morning Measurements: Dr. Altini elaborates on the differences between night and morning measurements and how HRV trends vary due to circadian rhythms and sleep stages​​.* 38:40 - HRV and Sleep Tracking Limitations: Despite advancements, wearable devices often lack accuracy in estimating sleep stages, emphasizing the importance of skepticism​​.* 43:30 - Spot Check vs. Continuous Monitoring: Dr. Altini warns against overinterpreting continuous HRV monitoring due to potential misinterpretation of data, recommending periodic spot checks instead​​.* 46:00 - HRV-Guided Training: Dr. Altini explains how to implement HRV-guided training by adjusting intensity based on daily HRV measurements relative to one's normal range​​.* 51:00 - HRV for Individual Athletes and Golfers: Coaches and individual athletes can use HRV trends over multiple tournaments and travel periods to identify patterns and refine performance strategies​​.* 55:20 - Advice for Golfers Considering HRV Monitoring: Golfers can use HRV to manage travel stress, tournament phases, and performance consistency by identifying patterns in their physiological responses​​.* 58:00 - Current Projects and Future Directions: Dr. Altini aims to improve communication around HRV while working on refining personalized feedback loops to optimize health and performance​​.* 1:03:00 - Book Recommendations and Influences: Dr. Altini recommends Suggestible You by Erik Vance, highlighting its insights into the placebo effect and psychological influences on performance​ResourcesBook Recommendation #1: Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and HealBook Chapter: How Data Can Capture Recovery: The Case for Heart Rate VariabilityPaper #1: What Is behind Changes in Resting Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability? A Large-Scale Analysis of Longitudinal Measurements Acquired in Free-LivingPaper #2: Comparison of Heart-Rate-Variability Recording With Smartphone Photoplethysmography, Polar H7 Chest Strap, and ElectrocardiographyPaper #3: State of the science and recommendations for using wearable technology in sleep and circadian researchHRV4Training: https://www.hrv4training.com/Personal Substack: marcoaltini.substack.comHRV4Training Substack: hrv4training.substack.comTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/altini_marcoAbout Dr. Marco AltiniDr. Marco Altini is a scientist and developer specializing in health technology and performance, holding a Ph.D. cum laude in Data Science, an MSc cum laude in Computer Science Engineering, and an MSc cum laude in Human Movement Sciences with a focus on High-Performance Coaching. As the founder of HRV4Training, he created a pioneering mobile platform trusted by over 150,000 users, including Olympic medalists and professional teams, to monitor heart rate variability (HRV) and manage training stress. Dr. Altini also serves as a Data Science Advisor at Oura, Guest Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Editor of the Wearable Department at IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. With over 10 years of experience modeling physiological data and more than 50 publications at the intersection of technology, health, and performance, he is passionate about empowering athletes and health enthusiasts to make data-informed decisions. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit noahsachs.substack.com

Why are colors brighter when you travel? Why do foreign doctors' offices seem sketchy sometimes? This has more to do with your brain than with reality. Science writer Erik Vance, author of Suggestible You, helps us examine the science behind our brain and its perceptions.   ------------------------------------- ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. START PODCASTING: If you are planning to start your own podcast, consider Libsyn for your hosting service! Use this affliliate link to get two months free, or use our promo code SWEET when you sign up. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!  

A majority of people in the US believe that faith can heal. And while there isn't any strong scientific data backing the idea of faith healing by divine intervention, there is a growing recognition that faith in the power of a person, religious ritual, or even medicine to heal can play a role in recovery via the placebo effect. Join Dave and his guests science writer Erik Vance and health psychologist Alia Crum to explore the surprising ways belief in placebos can heal, and how, if you've ever taken a medication, it's already worked to your benefit. For more, check out Erik Vance's book, Suggestible You. Learn about Alia Crum's work here.

Erik Vance (@erikvance) is an award-winning science journalist and author of Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal. What We Discuss with Erik Vance: How the human tendency for patternicity can be used to inoculate ourselves against pain, but also make us believe we've been abducted by space aliens. The placebo effect vs. the nocebo effect. The power of false memories and the "Satanic Panic" phenomenon of the 1980s. How our brains twist reality to match expectations, and how it fits into our evolutionary model for survival. Why Erik paid a Mexico City witch doctor to curse him -- for science! And much more... Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/461 Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course! Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

http://talkwithfrancesca.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/eric-vance-mp3.mp3 The mind and body continually twist and shape our realities. Eric Vance, while researching his book, Suggestible You, he was poked, prodded, burned, electrocuted, hypnotized and even cursed by a witchdoctor, all in the name of science.

This week we present stories from people who found themselves in sticky situations in the midst of doing research. Part 1: Erik Vance's first job reporting on scientific research doesn't smell as much like success as it smells like manure. Part 2: Liz Neeley observes hypnosis from the inside when she becomes the subject of the experiment. Erik Vance is an award-winning science journalist based in Boulder, CO who works as an editor for the NY Times. Before becoming a writer he was, at turns, a biologist, a rock climbing guide, an environmental consultant, and an environmental educator. He graduated in 2006 from UC Santa Cruz science writing program and became a freelancer as soon as possible. His work focuses on the human element of science — the people who do it, those who benefit from it, and those who do not. He has written for The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, Harper’s, National Geographic, and a number of other local and national outlets. His first book, Suggestible You, is about how the mind and body continually twist and shape our realities. While researching the book he was poked, prodded, burned, electrocuted, hypnotized and even cursed by a witchdoctor, all in the name of science. Liz Neeley is the Executive Director of The Story Collider, and the cohost of our weekly podcast. She is not a naturally gifted storyteller, but came into the field the hard way: reading research papers on narrative and science communication. She started her career as a marine biologist, and her first job was to support community-based projects in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Learning first-hand that science belongs to everyone changed everything. She misses the ocean these days, but loves getting to think about all different kinds of science now. Her biggest challenge is turning down new projects. Find her on twitter at @LizNeeley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If the placebo effect taps into our body's natural healing capability, and the nocebo effect can turn fear into physical symptoms, these are things we need to understand. In this podcast we dive into the research to try to make sense of one of the human body's great mysteries. My guest is science journalist Erik Vance, author of the book Suggestible You.

Join me as we explore the idea that the placebo effect is built on the narrative we create. What if our stories can heal us emotionally AND physically? Find out what you can do to harness your brain's expectation in an effort to heal yourself from the inside of your mind (science - it's so cool!). This episode is based on the book "Suggestible You" by Erik Vance Find out about working with Rachel 1:1 Connect with Rachel on Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rachel-nusbaum/message

This week we present two stories from people who let science lead them down a rabbit hole of curses. Part 1: Science journalist Erik Vance decides to get cursed by a witch doctor for science. Part 2: After taking a rock from Mauna Loa, volcanologist Jess Phoenix starts to worry that her offering to the volcano goddess Pele was not enough. Erik Vance is an award-winning science journalist based in Baltimore. Before becoming a writer he was, at turns, a biologist, a rock climbing guide, an environmental consultant, and an environmental educator. He graduated in 2006 from UC Santa Cruz science writing program and became a freelancer as soon as possible. His work focuses on the human element of science — the people who do it, those who benefit from it, and those who do not. He has written for The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, Harper’s, National Geographic, and a number of other local and national outlets. His first book, Suggestible You, is about how the mind and body continually twist and shape our realities. While researching the book he was poked, prodded, burned, electrocuted, hypnotized and even cursed by a witchdoctor, all in the name of science. Jess Phoenix is Executive Director and co-founder of environmental scientific research organization Blueprint Earth. She is a volcanologist, an extreme explorer, and former candidate for United States Congress. She has been chased by narco-traffickers in Mexico, dodged armed thieves in remote Peru, raced horses across Mongolia, worked on the world’s largest volcano in Hawaii, piloted the Jason2 submersible on an undersea volcano, and explored deep in the Australian Outback. Jess believes science should be accessible to everyone, and that creative possibility is limitless. Jess is a Fellow in The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society, a featured scientist on the Discovery and Science Channels, an invited TEDx speaker, and she has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, in Wired, Fast Company, on National Public Radio, on CNN, NBC, and has written for the BBC. She is the host of the podcast Catstrophe! (catastropheshow.com) and has a book coming out in Spring 2020 with Timber Press called Miss Adventure: My Life as a Geologist, Explorer, and Professional Risk-Taker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our own heads. Vance has investigated the healing power of stories and the “theater of medicine” (white coats included). It turns out that the things that make us feel better are often more closely connected to what we believe and fear than to the efficacy of some treatments. In fact, most drugs that go to trial can’t beat what we’ve dismissively called the “placebo effect,” which is actually nothing less than an unleashing of the brain’s superpowers.Erik Vance is a Pulitzer Center grantee and the author of “Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal.” His work has appeared in several publications, including the “New York Times,” “Harper’s Magazine,” “Scientific American,” and “National Geographic.“Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our own heads. Vance has investigated the healing power of stories and the “theater of medicine” (white coats included). It turns out that the things that make us feel better are often more closely connected to what we believe and fear than to the efficacy of some treatments. In fact, most drugs that go to trial can’t beat what we’ve dismissively called the “placebo effect,” which is actually nothing less than an unleashing of the brain’s superpowers.Erik Vance is a Pulitzer Center grantee and the author of “Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal.” His work has appeared in several publications, including the “New York Times,” “Harper’s Magazine,” “Scientific American,” and “National Geographic.“ This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Erik Vance — The Drugs Inside Your Head." Find more at onbeing.org. 

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Erik Vance will do anything in the name of science. As part of the research for his latest book exploring how the mind and body shape our realities, Suggestible You, he was burned, electrocuted, hypnotized, and cursed by a witchdoctor. In the past, Vance has been a biologist, a rock climbing guide, an environmental consultant, and an environmental educator, but now he focuses on the human element of science, writing about the people who do it as well as how it affects others in positive and negative ways. Over the course of his career, Vance has written for the New York Times, Nature, National Geographic, and a variety of local and national publications.

A discussion of concepts that Erik Vance detailed in his book, Suggestible You, The curious science of your brain's ability to deceive, transform and heal.

Your brain is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal, yet also underutilized and abused. This week we focus on how you can make mind over matter a part of your everyday life. Shelby and Josh chat with Erik Vance, Scientific American contributor and author of Suggestible You, and we cover 6 ways to rest your brain and recoup from the daily chaos of life and work.

Raghavan Iyer, author of “Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, and Baked—and Fried, too!" shares her potato recipe secrets. Erik Vance, author of "Suggestible You," on the power of your mind in being healed.

Have you heard of sham surgeries? In 2002, 180 people with osteoarthritis of the knee joined a double-blind study. Some patients underwent real arthroscopic surgery and a placebo group simply had a skin incision and then were stitched back up. Here is where it gets weird. The placebo group self-reported identical results to those who had undergone actual surgery. This is just one example of thousands of documented instances of "mind over body" in healing modalities ranging from allopathic medicine and crystal therapy to group prayer and homeopathy. How can this be? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we'll try to get to the bottom of this very real phenomenon. ------------ What You´ll Learn: Why the scientific method has always been hindered by the placebo effect as it taints nearly every data set—it's omnipresent How crystals, prayer healing, Reiki, and fridge modalities can sometimes deliver amazing results Why certain conditions that respond better to placebos (ex: pain, skin conditions, Parkinson's, depression, anxiety) How shame surgeries can be just as effective as real surgeries Why hypnosis and placebo are not necessarily connected Links & Resources: Suggestible You Erik Vance's Site Sham Surgery References Sham Knee Surgery Trial  ABOUT OUR GUEST Erik Vance is a native Bay Area writer living in Mexico. In his earlier life, he was a biologist, a rock climbing guide, an environmental consultant, and an environmental educator. His work focuses on the human element of science – the people who do it, those who benefit from it, and those who do not. He has written for The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, Harper's, National Geographic, and a number of other local and national outlets. His first book, Suggestible You, about how the mind and body continually twist and shape our realities was inspired by his feature in Discover and is on Amazon. You can learn more about his work at www.ErikVance.com  Nutritional Tip: Cooking with Olive Oil Got Questions? Send me a voicemail here: http://www.YogaBody.com/AskLucas   Or write to us: podcast@yogabody.com   Like the Show? Leave us a Review on iTunes: http://www.yogabody.com/reviews   Thanks to Our Sponsor: Essential Mister Let me guess… you love essential oils but are sick and tired of diffusers that look like lava lamps from the 1960's? If so, you need YOGABODY Essential Mister with a real-wood exterior. The simple, elegant design is a lovely addition to any room in the house, and it's simple, foolproof functioning allows you to set it and forget it for hours and hours of continuous use. Originally designed for our commercial yoga studios, The Essential Mister allows you to bring the power of Aromatherapy to your home or office. USA-plug, but with a simple adapter can be used in any country. 1-year warranty, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Learn More