Primal Shift Podcast #30: How to Use HRV to Improve Your Health

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is the difference in timing between heartbeats expressed in milliseconds. It gives us an indication of how our nervous system is responding to our environment and the stressors we're exposed to.

Understanding and tracking your HRV can offer profound insights into your overall well-being, stress management, and recovery processes.

In this episode of my Primal Shift Podcast, I discuss the importance of HRV as a measure of stress response and recovery ability, emphasizing the need for consistency in HRV measurements to obtain accurate data.

I also explore the potential for improving HRV through lifestyle changes and the use of tracking tools, underscoring the significance of monitoring trends over time to adapt behaviors for better stress management, overall well-being, and performance.

In this episode, I discuss:

0:02:07 - What HRV is, why it matters, how it reflects our nervous system's response to stress, and its implications for our health and recovery. This includes common HRV measurement errors, the best tools for tracking HRV, and how to optimize health by understanding and leveraging HRV data.

0:10:48 - Best practices for measuring HRV, the importance of consistent measurement for establishing a baseline, and using HRV as a stress monitoring tool. We'll talk about interpreting HRV in relation to exercise and recovery, the influence of lifestyle factors on HRV, and the necessity of a contextual understanding of HRV numbers for an accurate health assessment.

0:23:05 - The importance of assessing and improving HRV reading skills, with guidance on utilizing information from an article to enhance interpretation abilities, understanding what normal HRV is for an individual, and recognizing opportunities for improvement.

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How I’ve Increased My HRV By 50%: https://michaelkummer.com/health/increase-hrv/

What Is A Good Heart Rate Variability (HRV)?: https://michaelkummer.com/health/what-is-a-good-hrv/

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