Dr. Dave Rabin

And when HRV is low, we know that people have an increased likelihood of getting sick when they're pushed into stress.

They have a worse rate of dealing with stress consistently and performing at peak consistently.

They're more likely to make mistakes, and they recover from illness less quickly.

They live less long.

so this is a really exciting time for our field and especially something that the athletic and elite athletic and military world have brought into research that biohacking has jumped on which is that hrv can predict a lot of these things that people are taking blood samples and these very invasive tests to study we can look at hrv and get almost everything we need wow which is amazing to love that to predict where somebody's at in their health and recovery

And it's all based on vagus nerve activity.

And we can adjust it by soothing and calming the body.

So Apollo was a really incredible discovery from the University of Pittsburgh research we were doing because at that time when we launched it in 2020 and we discovered it in 2016, nobody had ever successfully created a technology that increases heart rate variability in vagus nerve activity with zero effort.

Normally you have to slow deep breathe for five minutes or you have to get a hug or hug yourself or do some kind of like yoga or soothing experience or put a vagus nerve stimulator on you that you have to hold to yourself.

Right.

And that takes effort and time.

And most people won't do it.

Even though it's helpful, people won't do it.

So my patients wouldn't do it.

So we just thought, well, what if we just use technology to automate this process for people?

They can just strap something on and wear it.

Would they do it?

And they did.

And so that ultimately became Apollo.

And it's the very first technology in history to passively augment HRV.