I made a video for you all on Heart Rate Variability which is definitely one of my favorite topics as it ties into Vagal Tone, Polyvagal Theory, Anxiety relief, Stress response, and the brain-gut axis.
Lovely content. Although the background music is distracting and hard to listen through at times. I was hoping you’d speak to the relativity of HRV readings to unique people and where the limits of that relativity are. For example, my boyfriends HRV is consistently way higher than mine. I know there’s nothing wrong with that necessarily. My rate may be fine for me, although I also struggle (and usually don’t) have an HRV that’s above my heart rate. Does that signal parasympathetic tone as something to address?
Thanks for the great feedback. If I'm hearing you correctly, the question is how do you determine if the parasympathetic tone is out of balance using HRV? The real value of the HRV measurement is day-to-day or hour to hour comparison. It takes about 2 weeks of measuring your HRV at the same time every day to understand your baseline. So if your boyfriend has an HRV of 64 and you have an HRV of 53 as a baseline, it's irrelevant to compare the two of you. It doesn't mean he has better heart rate variability overall. However, if you start to see your heart rate variability to send from 53 to 44 and so on over a course of several days, it's an indication of some type of threat to your nervous system that is causing loss of vagal tone. Hope that helps and thanks for the feedback on the music.
Lovely content. Although the background music is distracting and hard to listen through at times. I was hoping you’d speak to the relativity of HRV readings to unique people and where the limits of that relativity are. For example, my boyfriends HRV is consistently way higher than mine. I know there’s nothing wrong with that necessarily. My rate may be fine for me, although I also struggle (and usually don’t) have an HRV that’s above my heart rate. Does that signal parasympathetic tone as something to address?
Thanks for the great feedback. If I'm hearing you correctly, the question is how do you determine if the parasympathetic tone is out of balance using HRV? The real value of the HRV measurement is day-to-day or hour to hour comparison. It takes about 2 weeks of measuring your HRV at the same time every day to understand your baseline. So if your boyfriend has an HRV of 64 and you have an HRV of 53 as a baseline, it's irrelevant to compare the two of you. It doesn't mean he has better heart rate variability overall. However, if you start to see your heart rate variability to send from 53 to 44 and so on over a course of several days, it's an indication of some type of threat to your nervous system that is causing loss of vagal tone. Hope that helps and thanks for the feedback on the music.
Thanks Dr. Rinde. Looking forward to more Great content.