HRV-CV: WHOOP Research Study Reveals The Longevity Metric Everyone Needs To Be Tracking

About this episode

The episode discusses the WHOOP Research Study on Heart Rate Variability Coefficient of Variation and its implications for tracking longevity.

Welcome to the WHOOP Research Series, where we breakdown into the extensive, scientific research conducted by the WHOOP Performance Science team. On this week’s episode, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance, Principal Scientist, Dr. Kristen Holmes sits down with WHOOP Senior Research Scientist Dr. Greg Grosicki to unpack the latest WHOOP Research Study on Heart Rate Variability Coefficient of Variation or HRV-CV. Using data from 21,000+ WHOOP members and 2 million nights of sleep, Dr. Holme...

People in this episode

Host: Kristen Holmes

Guest: Dr Greg Grosicki

Topics covered

• Heart Rate Variability
• Longevity
• Performance Science
• Health Metrics

Keywords

• HRV-CV
• WHOOP Research
• sleep data
• performance

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