Dr. Jay Wiles

Kicks us out of sleep as well.

Causes a lot of wakefulness.

So we see people's sleep efficiency, which we want to be above 85%, start to drop below 85%.

We see the night is completely fragmented.

So what do we do?

Like, well, at absolute rest, what we would do is we would say, okay, we want to put you on a biofeedback protocol where about 30 minutes before bed, we're going to do 10 to 15 minutes of resonance breathing.

And within that kind of timeframe, the whole idea is that we're downregulating the nervous system acutely to try to ease ourself into sleep to get that good, deep, restorative sleep.

And that's what we want to see.

So we do that.

We see that, oh yeah, first night they did it, they did increase a little bit more high frequency power.

It might be only at the beginning of the night and the fragmentation kind of kicked into high gear, but we see it start to improve.

And then they do it week after week after week.

And what's so interesting is that almost every client for Absolute Rest says that their favorite intervention or the one that they feel like is truly moving the needle, aside from like top tier level coaching, is heart rate variability biofeedback.

Because it is something that they can see.

Like you can see it's not a guessing game anymore, right?

It's like I see that my nervous system has actually made changes.

Not just am I getting a little bit more of that parasympathetic sleep at the beginning of the night, but it's starting to traverse the entire night.

Starting to see it fluctuate and not fluctuate, but really go across the night and a lot less wake ups.

When people want to use HRV as like a catch-all metric for health, wellness, and longevity, I think that that is an immensely poor way to use it because it can't be used that way.

I think I mentioned at the beginning of our podcast that it's not a vanity metric.