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Hey, guys, before we jump into the call, I wanted to give you your fast facts,

which is a quick summary on the issue in case you want to get the summary and then get on to something else.

And also a couple quick announcements.

So this episode on heart rate variability, fast facts.

Heart rate variability, or HRV, is a tool to assess how much stress your body is under.

It measures tiny variations between heartbeats.

A low variability indicates your body is under too much stress.

So a higher variability would be healthy or healthier.

It can be used to determine if you need to undergo stress reduction.

So do you need to sleep more or exercise less or drink less caffeine or maybe even fast less or meditate more or what have you?

It can be measured in just two minutes a day using a fairly inexpensive pulse measuring device and a cell phone app.

If you are an overachiever or type A as I am, this tool may be great in preventing burnout

because you may start to see your HRV score drop and that may predict a coming phase of burnout.

So I think it has some really nice potential application there.

If you're trying to recover from a health condition, this tool could

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