ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Heart Rate Week!

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan'll have your heart going pitter-patter, with Heart Rate Week!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn gets the blood pumping with a week of heart rate facts. It's time for... Heart rate week. Fact of the day. Facts about the heart rate. Not the heart.

The rate of which it beats. The rate. We've all just gone into our health app on our phone. Yeah. I haven't been wearing my watch for three weeks or so. Had a little break. Yeah. It's quite nice.

You didn't like to be reminded? That I wasn't doing anything? Yeah. Or you didn't want to know the time anytime? Never wanted to know the time. Yeah, okay, good. When I was walking out on stage and you guys were in bed, not a good time to know that you're still working.

Well, we're going to start out with this week's fact of the day about the lowest resting heart rate. Because Fletcher's is so low, sometimes his watch will be like, we think you died. So low. Do you remember when we were just sitting on the chairs in the studio and I got a buzz on my watch and it was like, your heart rate. I get alerts when it goes below 40.

It's basically like, are you okay? Every morning I wake up and I just went into my heart rate notifications. I got to 36 overnight last night when I was sleeping. That's dead. Was I dead? Yeah, you died. Was I dead? I'm sick of throwing all these funerals for you after every time you go to sleep.

Heart rate at the moment and my resting heart rate average is 42 beats per minute. That's low. That's low. Mine currently is. One minute ago it was 67. My VO2 max is 65, which is really good. What does that mean?

It is a measurement of your VO2 max, which is the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume during exercise. But that's like based on your phone and your watch. You have to do a proper test. Yeah, no, I don't. But then apparently the watches are pretty close to actual tests.

That's good. Like people that have actually taken their reading and done it. You're getting there, but you're not quite at the world record for the slowest heartbeat in a healthy human. The record is held by Daniel Green, set in 2014. Yeah. 26 beats a minute. Jeez.

That's less than one a second. So that's a... Oh, my God. 26 beats a minute That's less than one a second So that's a Oh my god Is he like super fit? Or just Well they said it's in a healthy human So Martin Brady holds the Guinness World Record For the slowest heart rate with a certified rate Over a minute

So this is for a whole minute He kept this heart rate down there at 27 beats a minute Jeez And professional cyclist Miguel Induran In a whole minute, he kept this heart rate down there at 27 beats a minute. Jeez. And professional cyclist Miguel Indiran, who won the Tour de France five times, has a resting heart rate when he was doing the Tour de France. His resting heart rate was 28 beats per minute. Oh, my God.

So he was studied because he's such an anomaly. Usain Bolt, by the way, his resting heart rate was 33 beats a minute. Wow. So this guy's incredibly fit. Absolute fitness. And this guy's just a bit of an anomaly as well. His blood carried 7 litres of oxygen around his body per minute compared to 3 to 4 of the ordinary person, and 5 to 6 litres

of fellow professional bike riders. So he's getting a litre of extra oxygen a minute. His cardio output was 50 litres a minute. Wow. So that means his body's hooning around 50 litres in a minute. And a fit amateur cyclist is about 25 litres. His lung capacity was 7.8 litres compared to the average person having 6 litres.

That's a machine. So his resting pulse rate was as low as 28 beats per minute. The average human sits somewhere between 60 and 72 which meant that his heart would be less strained during the tough mountain stages. His VO2 max was 88 mil. 88 in comparison to yours.

Yours is 65 which is already above. 88 and Lance Armstrong's was 83.8. Yeah. That's insane. 88. And Lance Armstrong's was 83.8. Yeah. That's insane. Yeah. His heart was compared to the long stroke diesel engines. I don't know a lot about engines, but. Right.

Yeah. Okay. Jeez. Now everybody's like looking at their resting heart rates on their health apps. Yeah. Go with some animals with low resting heart rates. Elephants. Yeah.

They go between- They've got such big hearts. Big hearts and big bodies. Don't shame them. Not to pump around. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Did you hear that? He just shamed elephants. Sorry to our elephant listeners. So sorry about that. All bodies are welcome. I'm not actually. I'm not actually. I'm just making an apt description of your body.

I won't lie to you. You are a big bitch. Did I say the elephant's number before I was rudely interrupted? Elephant 25 to 30 is the average beats per minute. I think something so huge would need a lot of blood pumping quite fast. Horses 28 to 40 at resting. The blue whale, when it's diving,

it can go between 2 to 10 beats a minute because obviously the more beats it has, the quicker it uses up the oxygen in its blood. And then when it comes up to the surface and sucks in the blood, sucks in the blood? Jesus, where's it swimming? The oxygen and puts it into its blood between 25

and 37 beats at the surface because it wants to get that blood oxygenated again before it dives back down. Amazing. Wild. So today's fact of the day is five-time champion of the Tour de France, Miguel, has a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute. I forgot the jingle. I was like... And you're gone.

Gone. I'm back. Late night for you. It was a late night. It was a late night. It's heart rate week here at Fact of the Day. Happy heart rate week. Slow heart rates.

Today I want to talk about the maximum heart rate ever recorded in a human. I think mine, the highest mine has been is 183. This is Wikipedia. It's got a sound file and it says this is an elite athlete's heart rate recorded during a maximum workout effort, maintaining over 180 beats per minute for 10 minutes. Oh, that's bad. I don't know if I'm going to like listening to this.

Oh, yeah. It just sounds like you're staying above a club in a hotel. Yeah. Someone's cleaning up the bottles out the back. Oh, it's too ceramic-y. Stacy! Do you want to share an Uber? Yeah, it does.

Yeah, that's horrible. Okay. Jeez, that's going for it. For a sustained period of time. Any guesses? Now, I'll tell you, the theoretical maximum heart rate for a human is 300 beats per minute.

But it shouldn't be... What? Theoretical. Theoretical maximum. What is, like, the safe level? It's minus your age or something? A number minus your age? Is that what you should be...

No, no, no. That's why you put your age into the machine, eh? Oh, like where you should be at. And it's always good because the one good thing about being 50 is I'm not going to have to work as hard to get the heart rate up. That's nice. That's lovely. I'm already in zone three.

Lovely. Oh, exercise. So are you talking about a resting heart rate or when you're exercising? The highest ever. I'm talking about the highest ever a resting heart rate or when you're exercising? The highest ever. I'm talking about the highest ever recorded human heart rate. Now, the theoretical maximum, yes, for exercising, for anything, the fastest those muscles should allow the heart to beat is 300 beats per minute. Jesus, that's fast.

And then it depends on your age as well. Yeah. So 300 would be the highest it could possibly ever go. Theoretically. But these ones I'm looking at for like average maximum heart rate for a 20 year old, 200 beats per minute.

A 30 year old, 190. A 35 year old, 185. And a 40 year old, 180. 600 beats per minute. Shut up! The fastest human ventricular conduction rate recorded to this day

is a conducted, big word, with something else word, with 600 beats per minute. Was it a plumber that got two V's or Red Bulls for $5 and scaled them both

before seven? Do you want to hear 600 BPM? Yep. Okay. Each of those taps is a beat. That's insane. That's too much. That's how fast the heart was going.

That's too much. Now it was a medical situation. Is the heart having a seizure? So they've never released the name of the person or where it's happened, but it's in medical journals. It is comparable to the heart rate of a mouse. Oh, do mice have? Mice have incredibly...

Well, remember we said the bigger the animal, it seemed the slower the heart needs to beat. Oh, yeah, like an elephant has a really slow... But for ants, their heart must be like... Like that. That was really good. Thanks. I don't know what an ant... Incredible rhythm. I don't know what an ant's heart rate is.

I'm just Googling. Like that. I can't get over that. That's a human heart going that fast. Now, how to take an ant's pulse. Are you all right, little buddy? You put fingers on his neck. You're all right, little buddy.

Oh, is he alive? The average initial heart rate of all 31 ants in a study was 53.5 beats per minute. Okay, that's not so bad. That's faster than yours. Now, there is a shrew. You're way bigger than an ant. Thank you.

The Estuscan shrew, one of the world's smallest mammal, their heart beats up to 1,500 times a minute or 25 times a second. Okay. And that's how fast theirs is. Ooh la la. Yeah, so that's obviously very quick. So that person died, eh?

Oh yeah. Or needed a new one. Definitely you'd wear through them. It feels like it would explode. Yeah. Well, it's twice as fast as what they believe to be theoretically possible. So it might have kind of been a healthy situation in the end of things. So today's fact of the heart rate week is that the fastest human recorded heartbeat ever was 600 beats per minute.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Today's fact of the day is about, well, it's heart rate week. Yes. Fact of the day. It's going well. And I've got an interesting fact about what can lower the heart rate and thus has been banned. It is now added to the banned substance lists of shooting.

Rifle, like competitive shooting. Oh, I thought you were going to say game. Do you remember that game show that they had your heart rate? Yeah. The hot seat? Was it hot seat or something? It was Ritchie. Yeah, Ritchie hosted it. Oh, I don't remember it seat or something? It was a ridgy. Yeah, ridgy hosted it.

I think it was like a game show around the world. Yeah. You had a timer and when your heart rate went above a certain thing, the timer went faster.

So you had to stay relaxed and they'd do things like set a fire and stuff around you to try to get you freaking out. And hot women. And then old men's heart,

no, old men's heart rates would be boom, boom, boom, boom. I was going to say, it was the early 2000s.

It wouldn't have surprised me if they were right. Yeah, a couple of two-a-girls. A couple of two-a-girls. They're like, no, the two-a-girls aren't doing anything. Call in the big guns. It's time for the Jim Beam girls. Oh, wow. Yeah.

A-ooga. Get a couple of Red Bull girls in there. Yeah, get a couple of Reddy B's. Reddy B's. So, you know how you're like, you know how when you're playing pool or darts

or, and you're just like, I'm just going to have a couple of beers, take the edge off and you relax a little bit. Yeah. And you find your golden zone.

There's that sweet spot where you're actually good at pool. So good at pool, so good at darts. Lowers the heart rate. You're not like nervous about it or that's why alcohol is banned from shooting because it lowers your heart rate and you're like, being. Lowers the heart rate. You're not nervous about it. Well, that's why alcohol is banned from shooting

because it lowers your heart rate and being able to control your heart rate is advantageous in distance shooting because you've got to be relaxed when you pull the trigger. Yes. You've got to go breathe in, out, take a shot. Surely it's also so that you're of sound mind that you don't just sort of turn it around and...

Whee! This is fun. No, you're not allowed to have any alcohol in your system. It's one of the things they test for at any event, like at any sort of games where there'll be medals and stuff. Are there any other drugs that do that and relax you? Oh, heaps of them. Right.

Heaps of them. But for a long time I was like, have a couple of beer. And then they're like, well done bullseye, and you're like... You alright? Yeah, he's fine. Just very calm. So you're not allowed to have any alcohol in your system at time of

testing. Now that is because alcohol lowers your blood, lowers your heart rate, unless you're Asian. Really? You are familiar with the alcohol flush, often called Asian flush. unless you're Asian. Really? Sorry. You are familiar with the alcohol flush, often called the Asian flush.

A couple of drinks, very red cheeks. My father-in-law gets it shocking. Really? Yeah, hasn't passed it on to his daughter. I have friends that get that for sure. The Asian flush? Yeah, Asian friends. I've got a white friend that goes really red.

Okay, yeah, because it's not just East Asians that have it, but it's predominantly appearing in East Asia. It's ALDH2 hydrogazonius. Oh, yeah, of course that's what it is. It shows the reaction. I knew it was hydrogazonius. One of the reactions is the facial flush that we see, nausea, headaches, and an increased heart rate.

Okay. So this is for a very particular audience who I don't even know if they listen to the podcast. But if you are a Chinese representative at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the rifle shooter. Yeah, they're listening. What else are they listening to? Alcohol's not only going to get you banned, it's absolutely not going to help you in your shooting whatsoever. Because your heart rate's going to have gone up. It's crazy.

Wowzers. Also can worsen asthma. The alcohol flush reaction, I mean, it is heart rate work and it does pump up the heart rate when it lowers everybody else's heart rate because of the lack of the enzyme that can process it. Wow, interesting. is heart rate because of the lack of the enzyme that can process it. Interesting. So today's fact of the day is alcohol is a banned substance in

the competitive shooting world. Play ZM's Fletch Von Anele. Play ZM. I think this is a courier. You guys carry on. Oh no, we'll wait. We'll wait. This is the courier that's been carry on. Oh, no, we'll wait. Yeah, no. Hello. We'll wait. Yeah, hello.

This is the courier that's been like eight times and keeps taking it back to the depot. So this is quite important. Listen, we've all been through this struggle, haven't we? If you call back on the intercom, I can let you into the door. Oh. Bit of feedback there. Headphones are too loud.

Bye. Unprofessional. Miss you. So now are you going to get another call? Yes. Okay. Well, we'll just wait. I think we should just wait.

It wasn't Aramex. So they've really gone the extra mile here. It wasn't Aramex. It wasn't, no. Okay. Or is Aramex giving it to somebody else? No, I don't know who it is. They sort of all pass it around. Okay, should be open.

Yeah, good, there we go. Okay, good, that's good. Where's he putting that, though? Apartment life, eh? In the foyer. It's not going to get stolen. No, it won't. No, he's got a little flap.

Yeah, I've got a big flap, actually. It's quite a big flap. I've got a rosy in the flap. Yeah, it goes in the foyer. It's not going to get stolen. No, it won't. No, he's got a little flap. Yeah, I've got a big flap, actually. It's quite a big flap. I've had a rosey in the flap. Yeah, it goes in the flap. Yeah, I've had a look in the flap before. Robbers can't get in the flap. No further questions, Your Honour. Because there's spikes if you climb in it for the robbers.

Yeah, as well. Had to fish a guy out of there the other day, so just left him on the footpath. Yeah, fair enough. But, you know, that's his fault for trying to get into the male flap. That's what I say all the time. What are you doing in there, you crazy sucker?

Anyway, you should have carried on. That didn't need to be a big sidebar. No, the side quest needed to be completed. Life doesn't just stop when we're on air, does it? Sometimes we've got things to do. I've got a plumber at my house. He's got a multitude of questions. Oh, I've probably got someone at my place.

Questions, questions, questions. Questions, questions, questions. So, today's fact of the day, the final for heart rate week. We'll learn the facts about the heart rate. It is about the mammalian diving reflex. Okay. We're mammals. You and me.

Hayley, you're also a mammal. I think so. We ain't nothing but mammals. So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. Feeling horny now. Of course you're. Bloodhound Gang could have probably been a great... Yeah, well, you...

No, no, I'm happy what I wear with that. What is the one, that song, what is that song called? Late. Isn't it called The Bad Touch? Yes. Is that it? Yes. Is this the censored version?

Wow, we'll find out, won't we? Yeah, this is it. Mammals. Okay, good. We've got a soundtrack. We've got a soundtrack for the diving reflex. It means... Mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.

If you need to lower your heart rate, put your face in cold water. Oh, yeah. It tricks the body into thinking you're about to go underwater where you need to start using less oxygen because we can't breathe underwater. I wonder if that means your heart rate when you swim. Like when I go swimming, will that mean my heart rate's... Yeah, but when your whole body's in there, your blood vessels in the arms, hands, legs and feet constrict, so less blood flow.

Yep. Because your body wants to kind of taught itself. Taught? Teach? It's taught itself. It's taught itself. It taught itself. It has taught itself. It's seen it and it has. It's taught itself. It's taught itself. It taught itself. It has taught itself.

It's seen it and it done it. Yeah. It done taught itself. It done teached itself. Yeah. Okay, good. Ah, that. It needs to use less oxygen because we're mammals and we require it that when we're underwater.

Mammals. Pausing. So their blood, everything can stretch, so there's less need for it to flow. Yeah. And it also slows down, so we use less oxygen, so when we're underwater, we can do more stuff. Oh, yeah. Than we could if we were just above,

farting about and a little bit nervous. What are we farting about? We're just up here, we're just farting about. And it's called the mammalian... Spit it out. Spit it out, boy! Mammalian diving response. Okay.

Yeah, so if you feel your heart racing, you want to calm down, one thing you can do is, like, override any, like, I just need to calm down, I just need to calm down. Face in a bowl of cold water. And your heart rate will... This is amazing to hear the science behind why, because it's a big thing for PCOS women. Putting your face in a bowl of cold water and your heart rate will... This is amazing to hear the science behind why because it's a big thing for PCOS women.

Putting your face in a bowl of cold water in the morning because PCOS women have high cortisol levels which is a stress hormone. Yep. And that converts to testosterone

and that's why your PCS goes crazy. Yep. But to bring that down, that's one of the things they recommend. And now I'm sort of understanding why because it's like...

Yep. Lowering stress. Yeah, the cortisol can't flow around as quickly. Does it work for a cold shower as well? Yeah, the whole body. The whole body would be good, but... But the face, once the face itself is like underwater...

Yep. You know, when you're in a shower, you can still breathe. Yeah, yeah. It's like it was just raining, but this is from the diving underwater situation. How incredibly fascinating. How incredibly fascinating. Darling. Darling. That. How incredibly fascinating.

Oh, that was madly fascinating. Now let's hear it from the Bloodhound Gang. You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. Do it again now. You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals, So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel This would have been a way better Friday flashback. It would have been. Also, I believe this was after 2000.

Yeah. On the Discovery Channel So today's fact of the day for Heartbreak Week. If you want to slow down your heart rate, spit it out. Stick your face in it. Spit it out, boy! The more you shout the... Come on, boy!

Speak, boy! Speak! And that is the King's Speech. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. What? Shandog Millionaire? Shandog Millionaire. You haven't heard the lyrics, put your hands down my pants and I bet you'll feel nuts. I did not know this was a thing. I'm here for it. I love the vibe. You wait till you hear the Bloodhound Gang song.

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So people are clearly liking it, but we have to tell them to tell others to like it. I would concentrate more on the shitter podcasts that the company makes. Yeah, same. You know, the real losers out there. Same. No, no, no, we'll just... Yeah.

Maybe we won't say nice. Maybe we should even encourage people to listen to other podcasts that the company makes. Yeah. No, but only after ours. Yeah. Nah, nah, don't do that.

And not more than ours. Give us a sexy little review, though.