Heart Rate Variability (HRV): Measure Your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, I want to introduce you to something called heart rate variability (HRV).

HRV is a measurement of the variations between the heartbeats. There are different time distances between your heartbeats.

The more varied the timing is between the heartbeats, the healthier a person is, and the higher the HRV is. The less varied the timing is, the less healthy the person is, and the lower the HRV is.

HRV measures the autonomic nervous system. It has been well-researched and can help a person understand their ability to adapt to and recover from stress.

Many people use this technology to determine whether or not their body can handle the stress of working out on a given day. Maybe they can handle doing high-intensity training one day, but their body would do better with a day off or with low-impact exercise the next.

There are many different lifestyle changes you can make to help improve your overall health. HRV technology can help give you feedback to see if what you’re doing is actually benefiting you. It can even tell you your biological age and rate of aging.

You really can’t take your health to the next level if you can’t measure it. This is a fantastic and easy-to-use tool to help you do that right at home.

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0:00.0	So today I want to introduce you to maybe a new concept. I don't know if you ever heard of this before.
0:05.0	It's called Heart Rate Variability, HRV.
0:08.0	HRV is like a measurement of the variations between the heartbeats, okay? So if you think about it, when your heartbeats, you have different distances between the beats.
0:19.0	And you would think you would want those all exactly the same, but the more vary the distances or timing between the
0:26.3	heartbeats, the healthier the person is, the higher the HRV is. And the more these distances
0:32.4	or timing are the same, the lower the HIV, the less healthy the person is.
0:39.0	And I think a good concept to kind of wrap your wits around it is just your ability to adapt to your
0:44.8	environment. If you're good at adapting to your environment, you're going to
0:48.4	survive better. If you run up a hill, for example, and you can adapt to that,
0:51.5	you're going to be very healthy. But if you just barely
0:55.1	stand up and you pass out because your body can't adapt to that, you're not going to be in good shape.
1:00.8	So HRV, heart rate variability, is a technology that's very researched and can
1:06.7	help a person understand where they are stress-wise and their ability to to adapt to stress as well as their ability to recover from stress.
1:17.0	And a lot of people use this technology in exercise to determine, number one,
1:22.0	should they work out hard today or should they take a day off are they
1:25.0	over training or do they have enough potential recovery to handle a really good workout
1:29.7	like there's a lot of lifestyle things that you can do. Food, exercise, activity, sauna treatments, cold bath,
1:38.7	nutritional supplements. This technology allows you to have feedback to see if what you're doing is benefiting you or making you better or not.
1:47.3	You basically use this little device that you would put your finger in and it'll pick up information off your heartbeat and put it into some software which gives you these graphic
1:56.8	illustrations of what's going on with your stress and recovery and even your biological age.
2:03.1	So in practice, I would use some patients all the time.
2:05.0	I depended on it.
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