How To Use HRV Training To Boost Performance & Well-being and Protect Against Burnout
Angela FosterSep 13, 2022 at 7:30 am58min
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00:01Dr Jay Wiles
How do we become more self aware of how stress, physiological and psychological work manifests in the same way? How do we become more self aware of what is affecting us and how it's affecting us? And then how do we better self regulate?
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00:17Intro
Welcome to the high performance health podcast with your host, Angela Foster, the show where we talk about everything you need to break through limits and achieve a high performance, mind, body and lifestyle.
Angela Foster
So really excited to welcome a second time guests back to the show here on High Performance health. It is Dr. Jay Wiles, who is CO the co founder and chief scientific officer of Hanu health, which is a new device I'm playing with are very excited to hear all about this today. First of all, a very warm welcome, Jay. It's great to have you back.
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00:51Dr Jay Wiles
Yeah, it's great to be back. Angela, always enjoy the conversations with you.
Angela Foster
Yeah, really excited. Thank you. Not Not everyone will have listened because it was some time ago when we recorded the first episode all about HRV. But I do recommend people go back and listen to that. But let's kick off first of all with what HRV is for listeners and why it's so important.
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01:13Dr Jay Wiles
Yeah, you know, this is something I've been on a few podcasts recently, where I'm like, You know what, I get the question of what is HRV? Like, my mind spins like in 1000 directions. So I've kind of had to ask myself, like, Why does my head spin in 1000 directions? And if my head's 1000 directions, why does like the what is the layperson think about HRV. And I'm like, You know what, the layperson is probably going to stick with the easiest definition that they can, which only makes sense for me, because I understand the nuances and complexities of HRV, my head goes everywhere. So I've kind of like formulated more or less an easier definition to understand. And then I like to unpack it. And I like to kind of like, keep things more simplistic than complex initially, just because the complexity of HRV could make for not just a three, four hour podcast, but really an entire degree. So what I'll do is just really start very 30,000 foot view on HRV. Because in the end, what heart rate variability is, or HRV, it's nothing but a proxy. And so when we say a proxy, what I'm talking about is that heart rate variability is the single greatest non invasive proxy that we have to examine or look at the shifts that we have in our autonomic nervous system, which is representative of shifts or change in our response to stress. So heart rate variability in and of itself, is a data point, it is a proxy, a lot of people see it as a data point, but they don't understand what it means within its own context. And I think that's where HRV starts to get really, really confusing. But if you want it to kind of just wipe the slate clean, and understand what it is, it gives us a snapshot, or at least it has been previously we'll talk about how there's mechanisms, not for a snapshot, but actually to see it over time continuously now with what hadou is. But really what HRV is, currently, it's a snapshot that looks at the state or shift change in your autonomic nervous system, which is representative of changes in your overall stress resiliency, or in your human or in the human stress response. But my guess is Angela, you probably want me to unpack it a little bit more.
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