Last Updated on November 22, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Rob ter Horst is very happy with his Polar H10 chest strap:
We are not. We are happy with 3 channel ECG devices on a treadmill with speeds up to about 15 km/h as cardioloigst Milind Desay from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio is:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732081/
Do we as meditators need higher speeds anyway? But we think it would be highly desirable to have a treadmill which is capable of doing an ECG stress test. How is stresss defined scientifically and how can it be measured objectively? We do no know about that. But we miss a treadmill with ECG which delivers us some hiqh quality data which has the potential to be used also for research and clinical applications. Especially we think it is interesting to study on the long term the effect of meditation on the stress test treadmill values. We think it is one of the devcies which eventually can also be used at home since the principle of those is quiet basic. These devices cannot predict if you will have a heart attack or not:
And we will not do nuclear stress tests at home either. But we are convinced that daily meditation practice lowers the risk of a heart attach. And it has already been proofen that practice of meditation is good for your heart. And we want to know as exaclty as possible which physiolocial parameters our daily meditation practice influences and we want to measure those as accurately as possible. But we are not ready to pay 14 000 USD for a stress test treadmill, a view thousand dollars should be enough to build a high quality stress test treadmill by ourselves which eventually will be accepted also by scientists an medical doctors, a device which eventually will be our lifetime companion, as it is for the Dalai Lama the 14. in his daily routine :
https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/biography-and-daily-life/a-routine-day