Dr. Jay Wiles

Its thermostat is really stiff and stuck in a direction that we don't want to have.

And so therefore, it starts to impact things like our sleep and our ability to actually sustain longer, deeper sleep.

And so we can leverage – this is why heart rate variability is typically given to us on wearables while we're asleep.

And that's because when we get really good data of a process that is intended to repair our nervous system, HRV is telling us, well, is sleep actually helping us to repair the nervous system?

Or is there some gap there?

So without focusing on sleep, it's like you can do all the breathing you want and it's great and it's going to help and it can actually help improve sleep.

Tons of literature on resonance breathing and biofeedback and how it can improve sleep.

But if you aren't addressing sleep issues at its core, which can be a wide variety of factors, nervous system dysregulation probably being the foundation of that, then like all the other things that you're doing

maybe aren't going to have nearly as much of a net positive impact.

So we have to start with sleep.

Yes, it does.

It can show up in your baseline day-to-day behavior.

So in the ability, let's say for instance, with someone who's got an immensely flexible autonomic nervous system, they have high baroreflex gain.

We can actually see that their blood pressure regulation mechanism is really fine-tuned and can work really quickly, really efficiently, and really smoothly depending on what they experience.

However, in sleep, we're taking out

All the external variables of like physiological and psychological insult.

So stress.

We're taking all of that out.

Pretty blank canvas.

Yep.