Interpreting HRV Trends

Note: This episode was originally recorded and first released on June 27, 2024. We’re resurfacing it because the conversation is more relevant than ever, and the insights remain as timely today as they were when first published.

Your heart doesn’t beat like a metronome, and that variability between beats reveals everything about your body’s ability to handle modern stress. I get tons of questions about HRV, and here’s what you need to understand: HRV measures the balance between your sympathetic nervous system (fight-or-flight) and parasympathetic nervous system (rest-digest), and research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience shows it’s a powerful non-invasive biomarker linked to mental and physical health.

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro of Show

01:30 What is Heart Rate Variability?

02:26 Link between HRV and Cardiovascular Health

03:18 Factors that Impact HRV

04:28 Measuring and Analysing HRV

06:27 Impact of Chronic Stress on HRV

07:13 Actionable Steps to Improve HRV

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