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WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP Podcast

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The WHOOP Podcast is all about sharing science-backed insights and strategies from the best in the world at what they do. Learn from Olympic champions, CEOs, bestselling authors, and PhDs about the habits, mindsets, and routines that improve their health, fitness, and resilience. Unpack everything from breakthrough health and nutrition research, life-saving tech advances, longevity hacks, and more—each episode features an empowering conversation you don’t want to miss.

Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode of the WHOOP Podcast.

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  • What You’re Getting Wrong About Metabolism (And How to Fix It) with Dr. Nick Norwitz

    What You’re Getting Wrong About Metabolism (And How to Fix It) with Dr. Nick Norwitz
    Aug 19 2026
    Metabolic health is far more nuanced than conventional nutrition advice suggests. On this week’s episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance and Principal Scientist Dr. Kristen Holmes sits down with Metabolic Health Expert Dr. Nick Norwitz MD PhD to discuss why curiosity is one of the most powerful tools for improving long-term health. Dr. Nick Norwitz shares how a ketogenic diet unexpectedly put his inflammatory bowel disease into remission after numerous conventional treatments had failed. This experimentation sparked a career dedicated to challenging assumptions with rigorous science and thoughtful self-experimentation. Together, Dr. Nick Norwitz and Dr. Kristen Holmes unpack the difference between "evidence-based" and truly individualized care. This episode continues to explore why muscle, sleep, and visceral fat play central roles in brain, heart, and metabolic health. From discussions on protein, the microbiome, and emerging therapies to Nick's famous Oreo-versus-statin experiment, the conversation encourages listeners to move beyond one-size-fits-all health advice, and partner with their healthcare providers to embrace safe, data-informed experimentation for a better understanding of their biology. Shownotes:(00:00) Trailer Intro(00:43) Who Is Dr. Nick Norwitz?(03:07) Nick’s Personal Health Journey(08:29) Nutrition as a Medical Intervention(12:41) What Does “Evidence-Based” Care Really Mean?(16:42) The Key to Optimizing Your Health(19:17) Debunking Metabolic Health Myths(20:46) The Benefits of Training and Exercise(26:29) How Metabolism Affects Strength, Cardio, and Brain Health(30:03) How Does Sleep Impact Inflammation?(32:35) GLP-1s and Your Metabolism: What’s Really Happening?(34:47) Nick’s Take on Self-Experimentation(35:43) The Oreo vs. Statin Study(45:19) How to Burn Fat(49:43) Do We Really Need to Focus on Protein?(51:25) What Is Visceral Fat—and How Do You Lose It?(56:08) Why You Should Stay Curious About Your HealthResources:Fitness and aging (Nature Aging 2026); https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-026-01150-x Visceral fat and resistant starch: (Nature Metabolism 2024): https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-024-00988-y Visceral fat and resistant starch, **YouTube Breakdown: https://youtu.be/wnEApLnKDRI Visceral fat and brain volume: (Nature Comm 2026): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71141-4 Leg power and longevity (twin study): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26551663/ 600-calorie exercise burn study (Nature Metabolism 2025): https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01236-7 Microbiome and beige fat study (Nature 2026): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10205-3 Oreo versus statin study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38276308/Follow Nick Norwitz:WebsiteYouTubeInstagramXLinkedInSubstackSupport the showFollow WHOOP:Sign up for WHOOP Advanced LabsTrial WHOOP for Freewww.whoop.comInstagramTikTokYouTubeXFacebookLinkedInFollow Will Ahmed:InstagramXLinkedInFollow Kristen Holmes:InstagramLinkedInFollow Emily Capodilupo:LinkedIn
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    58 mins
  • How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

    How To Improve Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
    Aug 12 2026

    Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the most powerful metrics for understanding your recovery and resilience. In this week’s episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance and Principal Scientist Dr. Kristen Holmes and WHOOP Staff Research Scientist Dr. Greg Grosicki explain what HRV actually measures and what it indicates about the health of your autonomic nervous system. They unpack the biggest factors that influence HRV, including sleep consistency, hydration, training load, psychological stress, alcohol, and illness. You'll learn how to use HRV as a practical guide to balance stress and recovery, identify which habits are helping or hurting your physiology, and make small, consistent lifestyle changes that support better performance, healthier aging, and greater resilience over time.

    (00:00) Cold Open

    (00:35) What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)?

    (01:48) Why HRV Matters For Recovery

    (03:20) How WHOOP Measures HRV

    (04:44) Why You Shouldn’t Compare Your HRV to Others

    (05:43) Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System

    (11:28) Why WHOOP Measures HRV During Sleep

    (12:36) How Your Behaviors Impact HRV

    (21:30) Impact of Sleep Consistency on HRV

    (23:19) The Relationship Between High Stress and HRV

    (26:54) How to Improve Your HRV

    (30:33) The Habits Negatively Impacting HRV

    (36:26) Why You Shouldn’t Obsess Over HRV

    (37:51) HRV-CV: Understanding Weekly HRV Trends

    (41:49) How HRV Changes Over Time

    Listen to Our Episode on Heart Rate Variability Coefficient of Variation (HRV-CV)
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    43 mins
  • Taking The Guesswork Out of Women's Health with Natural Cycles° CEO Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl

    Taking The Guesswork Out of Women's Health with Natural Cycles° CEO Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl
    Aug 5 2026

    Women's health has long been underserved by research, leaving many women without the information they need to understand their own bodies. On this week’s episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance and Principal Scientist Dr. Kristen Holmes sits down with Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-Founder & CEO of Natural Cycles° and Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist. The conversation explores how data is transforming women's reproductive health.

    After helping discover the Higgs boson, Dr. Berglund Scherwitzl turned her expertise in physics and data science toward her own health journey by creating the world's first and only FDA-cleared birth control app. Together, Dr. Holmes and Dr. Berglund Scherwitzl discuss how wearable technology and physiological data are giving women unprecedented insight into fertility, pregnancy planning, menstrual health, and perimenopause.

    The conversation explores the new WHOOP and Natural Cycles° integration, designed to make women's health feel less overwhelming and more intuitive by combining continuous wearable data with advanced insights on fertility, hormonal health, and perimenopause. Dr. Holmes and Dr. Berglund Scherwitzl discuss how body temperature and other biomarkers reveal hormonal changes, why perimenopause often begins earlier than many women realize, and how passive, personalized insights can reduce uncertainty, ease mental load, and empower women to make informed decisions about their health at every stage of life.

    (00:00) Cold Open

    (00:37) Meet The Scientist Behind Natural Cycles°

    (01:00) Why Dr. Berglund Scherwitzl Started Natural Cycles°

    (04:35) The Only FDA-Cleared Birth Control App

    (05:54) The WHOOP x Natural Cycles° Partnership

    (07:51) The Early Signs of Perimenopause (And How To Track Them)

    (13:08) What Really Happens To Your Hormones Over Time

    (17:34) Why Understanding Your Body Changes Everything

    (19:09) Your Sleep Could Reveal Early Signs of Perimenopause

    (22:03) The Small Habits That Make A Big Difference

    (24:14) The Most Common Menstrual Cycle Myths

    (26:09) What Your Wearable Can Tell You About Your Hormones

    (27:07) The Truth About Fertility Timing

    (29:16) Knowing Which Symptoms Matter Most

    (31:36) HRT: What Women Should Know

    (34:10) What You Can Expect From The WHOOP x Natural Cycles° Partnership

    (37:05) The Future of Women’s Health

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    37 mins
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