When we talk about stress,

we think about mental stress, you know, hectic lives and so on.

But once you start using the trackers,

you see that the stress come from so many surprising angles,

like from alcohol, from poor diet, from late meals, from under training or over training, poor sleep is a factor.

And once you start tracking, then you are able to measure it and then it's so much easier to manage it.

And so many women tell me that they are so happy that these devices tell them to rest

because they would never allow themselves to rest you know they would feel guilty

Well Torquille Pharaoh is a general practitioner and emergency position who reckons your heart rate could reveal some home truths about the effect of

your diet, movement and sleeping patterns and what they're doing to your health.

This is the Lizzelle Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half.

I'm Liz Earl and I think as you know I am on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

Now do you wear any kind of fitness tracker? Do you monitor your health with some sort of technology? A watch, maybe a ring, an app.

I've tried a ring, which I didn't love if I'm honest, and I'm currently wearing a whoop,

which I am liking, especially when it comes to tracking my sleep and measuring my rem for example and all that.

It also has little bits on it for fitness tracking and I have to say I find these a tad mystifying so I am very much looking forward on a personal level to learning a little bit more about how I can use these for myself as well as more broadly the conversation about how they can work for us all.

Because I've heard that if we want to live longer and crucially be healthier throughout our years,

we might just want to get to grips with heart rate variability trackers that provide a magic number that could

show us just how much stress our lifestyle is causing our bodies.

Well Torquille was one of the first Norwegian medics to work for Doctors Without Borders, an incredible charity that I've also been connected to, actually, as an ambassador for the charity International Health Partners and he's had over a 25 year

career as a freelance doctor. He's worked all over Norway, had tens of thousands of consultations and gained a unique picture of the diseases that plague us.

And he's learned that the cause is most often found in the

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