Leah Lagos

  • Internationally Renowned Health and Performance Psychologist
  • Consultant for the Biofeedback Federation of Europe

Credentials

  • PsyD, Clinical Psychology
  • BCB, Biofeedback Certification International Alliance

Education

  • PsyD, Clinical Psychology

Affiliations

  • Biofeedback Federation of Europe
  • American Psychological Association

Research Focus

  • Biofeedback
  • Health Psychology
  • Performance Psychology

Notable Publications

  • Heart Breath Mind: Train Your Heart to Conquer Stress and Achieve Success (2020)
  • The Efficacy of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Biofeedback in Hypertension (2008)

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Key Contributions

  • Pioneered the integration of biofeedback and performance psychology.
  • Developed a 10-week program for using biofeedback to improve resilience under stress.

Contact

https://www.leahlagos.com/contact

Other Resources

  • https://www.ted.com/talks/leah_lagos_how_to_hack_your_biology_and_be_in_the_zone_every_single_day
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirR--QaCz0
How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 0:24 0
“HRV is very much associated with clinical conditions from myalgia to irritable bowel syndrome to depression to anxiety.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 2:27 0
“we want to optimize those oscillations to be resilient, adaptable, flexible, marked by agility to respond as we need and acclimate flexibly.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 2:44 0
“people think about stress in terms of am I stressed or am I not but what we really should be talking about is your agility and handling it how long does it last are you able to let it go when it happens how long does it take you.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 3:21 0
“HRV is a measure of who they are what amplifies them what takes away from their natural gifts and it's a metric that people can calibrate with breathing but also with study and research on what kind of leads to these changes.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 7:54 0
“it also can be chronic stress that's not properly managed”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 8:56 0
“I had one person it took us three sessions I mean questions after questions I got it they were drinking 19 cups of coffee a day”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 9:14 0
“having a few glasses of alcohol they know it impacts them but they don't really have a sense of how sensitive their nervous system is or how long it lasts but you can measure that”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 10:25 0
“some people will say when they their HRV is on the lower end of the range that they feel more myopic meaning their mind gets stuck more more irritable they're less able to control their reactivity and they speed up faster”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 14:17 0
“HRV is a metric which is both acute and chronic or systemic; it's an indicator of where you're at now and it's also an indicator of your sort of overall capacity, autonomic flexibility, probably health and fitness as well, stress response stuff like that.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 14:48 0
“There's a wealth of research that suggests that low HRV is correlated with cardiovascular condition so we want that heart to have those large abundant oscillations, that variability is essentially associated with longevity and a longer life.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 15:29 0
“We often see the heart rate independent of physical activity drop five beats and so let's say your Baseline heart rate is generally 65 it's now at 60, there's improved cardiovascular efficiency and certainly that has implications for heart Health and Longevity.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 21:37 0
“when you activate this frequency which is a specific frequency in the body the numeric is 0.1 Hertz you activate multiple Pathways at once allowing them to to tighten or or strengthen the homeostatic um regulatory mechanisms”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 22:50 0
“the HRV training it takes approximately 10 weeks meeting once per week and identifying a rate of breathing that optimizes the beautiful heart rate oscillations I have you practice that 15 minutes twice a day”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 25:28 0
“in the first session we identify resonant frequency that rate between 5 to 6.5 uh breasts per minute and um then we do a little a little extra fixing on the side and helping to to breathe from the abdomen on the breath”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 28:16 0
“so you're training the heart more than you're training the breath during these 50-minute sessions, is that right? Correct, and subsequently you train the breath after seven to eight weeks but first and foremost you train the heart.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 30:02 0
“so if you notice the benefits minimizing then then you up it and sometimes it's less maybe it's two weeks of going back to every day 15 minutes and you're feeling great again and then you titrate.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 32:20 0
“many athletes professional athletes whether NBA or PGA Tour will notice their mind racing and it it can be even something that something great that happens a birdie on the golf course but their mind races the sympathetic arousal sets in and and their mind is racing and so as they're walking from hole to Hole they're practicing their breathing counting four in six out to clear the mind and also return the body to their basine self four in six out correct.”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 34:04 0
“erasing mind or a heart rate that speeds up will identify physiological responses that would necessitate using let's say the power five to return to Baseline”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 34:39 0
“they take a moment to take five breaths and it doesn't have to be eating but it can be some other regular activity so that this becomes a way not just two bookends at the start and end of every day but a way to stay calibrated and open and engaged with the world without kind of the energetic expenses of the world coming at them”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 35:09 0
“nasal breathing ever since James Nester wrote uh breath fantastic book he came on the show to talk about it uh nasal breathing's kind of another hot new girl in school at the moment”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 36:59 0
“I have not seen uh that the nasal breathing produces HRV gains that are um more than the inhale through the nose and the exhale through the mouth”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 41:49 0
“sometimes I will see that running for specific individuals for a specific distance has an incredible impact on their HRV not all and and sometimes it's it's I've seen that with swimming as well”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 42:27 0
“I've seen acupuncture improve HRV I've also and this is kind of a funny one but I've seen two people actors that don't know each other come from energy healing and and they show up at my office and and on both of those occasions and and throughout their training I I kept saying what was happening and it didn't improve their Baseline but when they came directly from that session I could see in the moment that their AG V was uniquely higher than normal and their parasympathetic State more easy to access”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 43:07 0
“I've seen people take supplements that augment HRV what are some of those I have no affiliation with it but lima lima is a supplement that um has a scientific formula l y ma correct to to optimize it has antioxidant effects anti-anxiety effects and to improve sleep um people take it for various reasons it's and again I have no affiliation with it but I had enough clients tell me about it and we measured it and and I measured also their sleep um as related to HRV and we saw improvements in both”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 47:29 0
“allows you to capture HRV in the moment as well as at sleep at night so you have that optionality”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 47:53 0
“we play games like how to bring your heart rate down by five beats and two breaths can you do it in one breath can you do it in half a breath”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 48:30 0
“sound baths and they use different instruments to produce different sounds the vibrations are really fascinating because they do activate the parasympathetic nervous system”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 50:07 0
“committing to 10 weeks or 10 to 12 weeks of the HRV training breathing 15 minutes twice a day at their resonant frequency”

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How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – Dr Leah Lagos
Enhancing Health and Wellness through Heart Rate Variability Insights 54:23 0
“potent times people have felt safe or of connection is holding their child for the first time men as well as women and and recreating a a feeling of safety going back to an imprint that exists connecting to it on the inhale and letting go of the rest of the world”

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