Heart Rate Variability Podcast

This Week in HRV Edition explores four newly published studies that highlight the remarkable breadth of heart rate variability research. These papers span nutritional neuroscience, digital phenotyping in social virtual reality, neonatal intensive care, and ophthalmic hemodynamics. Across all four studies, one theme emerges clearly: HRV reflects the structure of physiological adaptability. The nerv...

In this episode, Matt Bennett interviews Ana Miranda about her research on HRV, allostatic load, and the stress response. 

In this week’s episode of The Heart Rate Variability Podcast: This Week in HRV Edition , we explore seven newly published studies that highlight the remarkable breadth of heart rate variability research. These papers span wearable digital biomarkers, sleep medicine, machine learning and mental health, critical care pharmacology, virtual environments, stroke recovery, and intermittent hypoxia. Acro...

In this week’s episode, host Matt Bennett explores the expanding frontier of heart rate variability as a bridge between subjective stress, neural adaptability, physiological arousal, and early cognitive decline detection. Rather than treating HRV as a static “stress number,” this episode highlights its role as a dynamic biomarker of regulatory flexibility across psychological, neurological, and co...

In this episode, Matt Bennett interviews Dr. Inna Khazan about how people can use different options to maximize their biofeedback practice. 

In this week’s episode, host Matt Bennett moves beyond environmental stressors to explore the biological architecture that governs our autonomic responses. From the inflammatory milieu of coronary arteries to the 24-hour coordination of the circadian axis, we analyze how Heart Rate Variability (HRV) serves as a blueprint for physiological integrity and a non-invasive window into the developing bra...

In this week’s episode of The Heart Rate Variability Podcast: This Week in HRV Edition , we explore five new studies that highlight the remarkable breadth of heart rate variability research — from the emotional intensity of football matches to adolescent development, from neurofeedback training to fasting physiology, and from cardiometabolic health to organ dysfunction in critical care. Across all...

In this episode, Matt Bennett interviews chiropractor Dr. Tommy Rhee about his utilization of heart rate variability in his innovative approach to regenerative health, recovery, and performance.

In Episode 24 of the Heart Rate Variability Podcast, we explore five recent studies that span trauma recovery, personality theory, migraine prediction, heart failure monitoring, and fundamental vagal sensory mechanisms. Together, these papers deepen our understanding of HRV not as a static metric, but as a dynamic signal shaped by interoception, context, and time. This episode emphasizes HRV as a...

EPISODE 23 – THIS WEEK IN HEART RATE VARIABILITY Episode Title: HRV Across Cardiovascular Disease, Stress, Cognition, Development, and Social Connection Episode Summary: In Episode 23 of the Heart Rate Variability Podcast, we take an in-depth look at six recent peer-reviewed studies that collectively illustrate how heart rate variability (HRV) is being used across medicine, neuroscience, psycholog...

In this episode, Matt Bennett interviews Dr. Jennifer S. Addleman and Nicholas S. Lackey about their recent article Heart Rate Variability Applications in Medical Specialties: A Narrative Review. You can find the article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10484-025-09708-y. Dr. Jennifer S. Addleman, DO, CSCS, is a resident physician and certified strength and conditioning specialist...

This Week in HRV - Episode 22 In this episode of " This Week in HRV" , Matt Bennett explores four recent studies that broaden our perspective on autonomic regulation across diverse physiological contexts. This week’s collection highlights the nuances of female reproductive physiology as captured by wearables, the specific cardiovascular mechanics of volitional sighing, the superior recovery potent...

This Week in HRV - Episode 21 In this episode of This Week in HRV , Matt Bennett explores five recent studies that deepen our understanding of heart rate variability as a marker of autonomic regulation across endocrine health, sleep physiology, theoretical neuroscience, extreme environmental exposure, and performance nutrition. Together, these studies illustrate how HRV reflects the nervous system...

This Week in HRV  In this episode of This Week in HRV , Matt Bennett explores five recent studies that deepen our understanding of heart rate variability across time, technology, cardiovascular health, brain aging, and addiction recovery. Together, these papers highlight both the strengths and limitations of HRV as a window into nervous system regulation. 1. Unveiling the Extremely Low Frequency C...

In this episode, Matt Bennett is joined by Dr. Inna Khazan and Dr. Mara Mather to discuss Dr. Mather's research on heart rate variability biofeedback. Dr. Mather's work opens exciting new insights to the real and potential power of HRV biofeedback. 

Episode Show Notes: This Week in HRV – January 2026 Welcome to the first episode of 2026! Today, host Matt Bennett explores ten groundbreaking studies that bridge the gap between autonomic health, mental well-being, and physical performance. From the cardiac strain of early psychosis to the "neuroimmune triad" in diabetes, we dive deep into the latest science of Heart Rate Variability. Detailed St...

The 2024 Year in Review — Research That Shaped 2025 The Heart Rate Variability Podcast In this special "Year in Review with a Twist," we shift our focus from the weekly news cycle to the big picture. We examine the most influential, highly cited research of 2024 to understand how these findings are revolutionizing clinical thinking and personal wellness in 2025. HRV is no longer just a metric on a...

In this episode, Stephanie White joins Matt Bennet to explore the nature and uses of Very High Frequency Heart Rate Variability.

This Week in Heart Rate Variability: Air Pollution, Spiritual Wellbeing, Consciousness & Clinical Prediction In this episode of The Heart Rate Variability Podcast – This Week in HRV , we expand the horizons of autonomic science. From the hidden impact of environmental pollutants to the neuro-spiritual connection of the "heart-brain axis," we examine how HRV serves as a vital bridge between our...

This Week in Heart Rate Variability: Metabolic Syndrome, Nerve Blocks, EDS & Autonomic Health In this episode of The Heart Rate Variability Podcast – This Week in HRV , we explore how the autonomic nervous system function connects metabolic disease, genetic disorders, targeted neural interventions, and the future of biofeedback science. Episode Highlights How Metabolic Syndrome drives chronic...

Episode 15 – This Week in Heart Rate Variability Welcome to this week's exploration of the latest HRV science. In Episode 15, we discuss nine newly published studies that expand our understanding of HRV in mental health, physiology, chronic illness, and digital health innovation. This episode highlights remote biofeedback, pediatric heart dynamics, pregnancy and thyroid status, elite performance,...

In this episode, Matt Bennett talks with Dr. Richard Harris about his article: Single-case report: dynamic changes in cardiac function during shamanic journeying and Qigong meditation Read the full article here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1608442/full

In this episode, we dive deep into the latest research from late 2025 and explore the exploding field of Psychophysiology. We look at how Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is becoming the "master key" for detecting everything from complex emotions to psychosis. We also break down a massive new study on how antidepressants shift your physical metabolism, the effectiveness of "light-guided" breathing for...

This Week’s Studies: Cardiac-vagal rhythm echoes on the heartbeat's mechanosensory imprint in the brain Candia-Rivera & Chavez — Communications Biology https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08969-x Box breathing or six breaths per minute: Which strategy improves athletes' post-HIIT cardiovascular recovery? Kasap & Aydin — PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336615 The toler...

Video link:  https://youtu.be/3vn_TF-ezTE   In this episode of The Heart Rate Variability Podcast , host Matt Bennett sits down once again with Stephanie White , HRV coach and educator known affectionately as “the HRV Guru.” Together, they dive deep into advanced heart rate variability concepts—especially heart rate fragmentation (HRF) , very high frequency (VHF) activity, and new HRV metrics that...