Dr. Mark Hyman

It helps your digestion.

It helps your hormones.

All these things really help.

There's also something that you can measure.

And a lot of people have Oura Ring or other devices.

You can increase your heart rate variability by a number of practices.

But heart rate variability basically measures the health of your nervous system.

And the higher the variability, the healthier you are and better correlated is with wound healing and surgical recovery.

So what this means is, you know, your heart rate, let's say is 70, but it's not actually 70.

It's like 70 and a half.

It's 69 and a quarter.

It's 68 and two thirds.

It's 72 and an eight, you know, and the more variability there is between every beat, the

the healthier you are.

The more complexity to your heart rate, the healthier you are.

The most pernicious heart rate and variability is a flat line, like nothing, no variability.

And if you have low variability, it means your heart's not good, your nervous system isn't good, and it's really bad.

So people with high heart rate variability actually recover faster, they have fewer complications, and there's ways to increase that by breath work, by meditation, by gratitude practices, by

shifting your body into a healing physiology through yoga and all these various practices that you can do to increase your parasympathetic system.

And there's a lot of devices out there.