Athletic & Aware

Athletic & Aware

SFH #153: Heart Rate Variability

My current preferred method to measure health 💫

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Brian Hain
Aug 19, 2021
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Heart rate variability is a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. This variation, called HRV for short, is regulated by our autonomic nervous system. Our ANS (more three-letter acronym love) governs our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and digestion and subdivides into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, coined …

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