Massive HRV & Readiness Scores With This ONE Trick For Instant Stress Relief (Calm Fight & Flight Within *Seconds*), With VeRelief's Dr. Nicholas Hool
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this exciting episode, you'll get to discover groundbreaking insights into vagus nerve stimulation with biomedical engineer Dr. Nicholas Hool. You'll explore the fascinating science behind VeRelief, a portable vagus nerve stimulation tool designed for busy professionals, which enhances calmness and stress relief through electrical stimulation and slow breathing techniques, providing a high-strength stress recovery solution that can be used anywhere—from the office to the car, on the field, in a plane, and at home. Nicholas also dives into its potential to boost athletic performance, its innovative hands-free wearable version integrated into headphones, and the scientific research supporting its effectiveness. Plus, you'll uncover how these devices compare to traditional stress relief methods and medications.
If you're looking to optimize your stress management, improve recovery, and explore cutting-edge wellness technology, you won't want to miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | In our first study, we rigged people up with every sensor. |
| 0:08.2 | We could. |
| 0:08.6 | We had a full 32 channel EEG cap. |
| 0:11.2 | We had all their hands wired up with all these sensors. |
| 0:14.2 | Galvanic skin response is a pretty popular one for stress levels. |
| 0:17.3 | In terms of brain activity, most consistently we would see an increase in what's called |
| 0:21.8 | coherence, which doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be more relaxed or less, but your brain's |
| 0:26.3 | working more efficiently. I would say the most consistent ones were heart rate dropped a little bit, |
| 0:32.2 | and HRV went up. And it tends to be most noticeable, or you see the biggest jumps in people that have more severe stress states. |
| 0:41.8 | So PTSD panic disorder. |
| 0:44.4 | And in the active group, we saw a 31% increase in the RMSSD component of HRV, which is your parisemothetic side. |
| 0:51.3 | And we saw zero change in the placebo group. |
| 0:55.9 | So that was like a crystal clear impact on HRV. Welcome to the boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal |
| 1:03.4 | trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover |
| 1:08.4 | unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 1:19.1 | Well, this is cool. Groundbreaking new app. It's a supplement companion app. What the heck is that? |
| 1:25.5 | Well, look at it this way. It's hard to know which supplement brands to trust. So this company, SUP-P-P-C-O, SUP-C-O. They solve this with what they call their |
| 1:33.7 | trust score quality rating system. That helps you understand which brands you can trust with their |
| 1:38.8 | 29 attribute quality checkup on your supplements. You just load up your supplement routine, and not only does |
| 1:45.0 | it tell you the quality of what you're taking, but with Subcoast Smart Schedule, when you load in your |
| 1:50.7 | supplement routine, the app reminds you when and how it's time to take your next dose. And supplements |
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