Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Full show notes here: bengreenfieldlife.com/shiftwavepodcast
Brace yourself to learn about what may be the coolest chair you’ve ever heard of - a chair that quite literally “shifts” your nervous system and mood state when you sit in it for as little as 5 minutes.
Today’s episode is with Mike North, the engineer behind the Shiftwave Pro chair. Mike helped design the first vibrating medical cast, which eventually became a full-body vibration-based system we discuss in the podcast
Shiftwave is a zero-gravity chair that uses precisely tuned vibration patterns to calm stress, support parasympathetic activation, and bring your physiology back online in minutes.
Along with you getting to see Mike attach wires all over my body to assess my nervous system response to the chair, here’s what else we cover:
- Nervous-system training—how targeted vibration frequencies shift you out of fight-or-flight and into parasympathetic dominance.
- Deep-sleep physiology—why the body generates slow-wave signatures, downshifted brain activity, and glymphatic flow even while awake.
- HRV responsiveness—what happened to my HRV in real time during a 30-minute session, and how it compares to meditation, breathwork, and other recovery inputs.
- Engineering evolution—how a 3D-printed medical cast became a zero-gravity vibration system built around physics, resonance, and human physiology.
- Real-world applications—travel recovery, post-training down-regulation, sleep support, and daily autonomic maintenance.
- Comfort + positioning—how pressure distribution, full body alignment, and resonance pathways influence vagal tone and whole-body response.
If your nervous system feels overworked, underslept, or constantly overstimulated, this conversation offers a fascinating look at how new technologies embedded in vibration-based therapies can help recalibrate the body.
Visit - shiftwave.co/bengreenfield for a discount.
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00:00 "Revolutionizing Healthcare with Sensors"
06:08 "Mapping Emotions Through Physiology"
12:39 Massage Chair Modalities Discussion
19:18 "Power Nap through Deep Rest"
22:18 Synthetic Sleep for Travel Recovery
30:01 "AI-Powered Protocol Guidance"
32:36 "Vibration, Nitric Oxide, Wim Hof"
42:36 "Heart Rate Test & Insights"
47:24 Brain Blood Sensor Prototype
50:22 Pre-Session Stress Survey Integration
55:03 Breath Synchrony and Entrainment
01:00:58 Customizable Chair for Nervous System
01:06:08 "Shiftwave Webinar & Bonus Offer"
Full show notes here: bengreenfieldlife.com/shiftwavepodcast
Brace yourself to learn about what may be the coolest chair you’ve ever heard of - a chair that quite literally “shifts” your nervous system and mood state when you sit in it for as little as 5 minutes.
Today’s episode is with Mike North, the engineer behind the Shiftwave Pro chair. Mike helped design the first vibrating medical cast, which eventually became a full-body vibration-based system we discuss in the podcast
Shiftwave is a zero-gravity chair that uses precisely tuned vibration patterns to calm stress, support parasympathetic activation, and bring your physiology back online in minutes.
Along with you getting to see Mike attach wires all over my body to assess my nervous system response to the chair, here’s what else we cover:
- Nervous-system training—how targeted vibration frequencies shift you out of fight-or-flight and into parasympathetic dominance.
- Deep-sleep physiology—why the body generates slow-wave signatures, downshifted brain activity, and glymphatic flow even while awake.
- HRV responsiveness—what happened to my HRV in real time during a 30-minute session, and how it compares to meditation, breathwork, and other recovery inputs.
- Engineering evolution—how a 3D-printed medical cast became a zero-gravity vibration system built around physics, resonance, and human physiology.
- Real-world applications—travel recovery, post-training down-regulation, sleep support, and daily autonomic maintenance.
- Comfort + positioning—how pressure distribution, full body alignment, and resonance pathways influence vagal tone and whole-body response.
If your nervous system feels overworked, underslept, or constantly overstimulated, this conversation offers a fascinating look at how new technologies embedded in vibration-based therapies can help recalibrate the body.
Visit - shiftwave.co/bengreenfield for a discount.
LIFE Network: joinlifenetwork.com
Ben Greenfield Life Website: bengreenfieldlife.com
Ben Greenfield Life Podcast: bengreenfieldlife.com/podcast
Ben Greenfield Books: shopbengreenfieldlife.com/collections/books
Instagram instagram.com/bengreenfieldfitness
Facebook facebook.com/BGFitness
X twitter.com/bengreenfield
TikTok tiktok.com/@bengreenfield
00:00 "Revolutionizing Healthcare with Sensors"
06:08 "Mapping Emotions Through Physiology"
12:39 Massage Chair Modalities Discussion
19:18 "Power Nap through Deep Rest"
22:18 Synthetic Sleep for Travel Recovery
30:01 "AI-Powered Protocol Guidance"
32:36 "Vibration, Nitric Oxide, Wim Hof"
42:36 "Heart Rate Test & Insights"
47:24 Brain Blood Sensor Prototype
50:22 Pre-Session Stress Survey Integration
55:03 Breath Synchrony and Entrainment
01:00:58 Customizable Chair for Nervous System
01:06:08 "Shiftwave Webinar & Bonus Offer"
