Podcast appearances and mentions of Jay T Wiles

Today, I am blessed to have here with me Dr Jay T. Wiles. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Hanu Health. Dr Jay is also a prominent expert in mental health optimization, HRV, and biofeedback.  Dr Jay is a clinical health and performance psychologist. He has a master's degree in clinical therapy and then went on to his doctoral degree in clinical psychology. When he was in his residency, he and his co-workers were exposed to a toxic black mold. This led him to be more interested in health, wellness, and integrative holistic health.  Since then, his residency in the Department of Veteran Affairs grew his desire to study heart rate variability and biofeedback and how it relates to Nervous System Monitoring and functioning.  In 2018, Dr Jay launched his consulting company, which is utilized by elite athletes, high-performance executives, and CEOs to understand data from wearables while learning how to manage their nervous systems using tools and procedures.  His firm, Hanu, was founded in 2021. It is a digital mental health platform that uses wearable technology to track changes in the human stress response. They then train resilience through various techniques.   In this episode, Dr Jay speaks about heart rate variability and its relation to the nervous system. Dr Jay talks about how to gauge parasympathetic balance. Tune in as we chat about Heart Rate Variability, Nervous System, Stress, Parasympathetic Balance, measuring HRV, Pre-Meal Breathwork Sessions, and many more. Get your Hanu Health device, 20% off! Head to http://www.hanuhealth.com and use the coupon code ketokamp at checkout. 

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with Dr. Stephen Cabral about how to achieve high performance health. What is High-Performance Health? (2:20) The main parameters that most longevity scientists look at to measure biological age.  (5:47) The correlation between internal biological and external age. (11:28) Can hormone therapy reverse biological age alone? (18:33) The impact that sleep has on your biological age. (21:56) Should we sleep more in the winter and less in the summer? (26:24) How to track the stages of sleep. (27:23) Ways to improve REM and deep sleep. (28:27) The benefits of mouth taping and breathwork. (30:15) Eliminate snoring by lowering your inflammation load. (34:25) The 3-2-1 Formula for better sleep results. (35:50) The effect of cannabis on sleep. (40:19) What does the High-Performance Health Course look at and cover? (42:39) One of the most important parameters that people know NOTHING about. (44:25) What tools are taught during the course? (47:13) The impact of cold therapy on the immune system. (50:34) What separates this certification course from the rest? (53:08) The High-Performance Protocol that maximizes biological age improvement and overall rejuvenation of the body. (56:10) Related Links/Products Mentioned Special Promotion: Be a part of the High-Performance Health (HPH) Community and save 30% on the course here The Nutritional Coaching Institute (NCI) is celebrating its birthday in a big way this year! They are giving away a full-ride scholarship to one lucky individual who will get all the certifications and education needed to create an impact for their clients and the dream career for themselves. To learn more and apply for the scholarship visit here Biological Age Test | Horvath's Clock | myDNAge Steve Horvath: Epigenetic Clocks Help to Find Anti-Aging Treatments Mind Pump #2060: Maximize Fat Loss With Continuous Glucose Monitors: Kara Collier Resources - Stephen Cabral The effectiveness of melatonin for promoting healthy sleep Mind Pump #1780: Why Blood Tests Are Overrated With Dr. Stephen Cabral Biostrap - The Evolution Of Digital Health Oura Ring: Accurate Health Information Accessible to Everyone Humming Your Way to Relaxation | Mayo Clinic Connect Mind Pump #2020: The Truth About Inflammation With Dr. Stephen Cabral Breathing to Manage Your Stress | Psychology Today Cabral Concept 2526: Use the 3-2-1 Formula for Best Sleep Results (TT) Home - Hanu Health, Inc. EWOT - Everything you need to know Resources - High Performance Health Visit The Cold Plunge for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump Listeners! **Promo code MINDPUMP at checkout for $150 off your order** Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources Featured Guest/People Mentioned Dr. Stephen Cabral (@stephencabral) Instagram Paul Sklar (@paulsklarxfit) Instagram David Sinclair (@davidsinclairphd) Instagram Dr. Jay T. Wiles (@drjaywiles) Instagram  

Welcome back for our 4th roundtable episode with Dr. Jay Wiles and Mollie Eastman! In this episode, we discuss everything related to data... our personal approaches, our top biohacks, advice for clients, data sovereignty, and more. Dr. Jay T. Wiles is a clinical health psychologist, currently working as the Health Behavior Coordinator at WJB Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, SC and the Greenville Outpatient VA Clinic. He has specialized training in health behavior coaching, health assessment, nutritional interventions for mental and physical health, Motivational Interviewing, applied psychophysiology, and consultation. Dr. Wiles works as a consultant for companies/organizations, practitioners, and individual patients on nutritional psychology, health behavior change, applied psychophysiology, and health promotion/disease prevention via complementary and integrative practices. He is also Board Certified in Tai Chi for Rehabilitation. Mollie Eastman (McGlocklin) is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, and the host of The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast. Sleep Is A Skill is a company that optimizes people's sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. After navigating insomnia while traveling internationally, she created what she couldn't find - a place to go to learn the skill set of sleep. With a background in behavioral change from The Nonverbal Group, she became fascinated with chronobiology and its practical application to sleep and our overall experience of life. Knowing the difference between a life with sleep and without, she's now dedicated her life to sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep. In the spirit of that goal, she has created the #2 sleep podcast, written a popular weekly sleep newsletter for over four years, partnered with luxury hotels & lifestyle brands, and has appeared on over 150 podcasts.SHOW NOTES:0:51 Welcome to the Biohacker Babes1:33 About today's episode2:57 Welcome to the Roundtable!4:54 Dr. Jay's approach to data6:34 Fitness for Longevity & VO2Max7:48 The wearables he predominantly uses9:58 How to increase Max Oxygen Consumption15:17 The psychology of hard work16:30 Limitless on Disney+18:21 Testing Biomarkers before and after VO2max training22:01 Renee on the Natural Cycle wearables24:25 Lauren on Continuous Glucose Monitor25:49 Lauren's new Microdosing Protocol27:30 Dr Jay on values-driven goals30:24 *LightPathLED*33:38 Micro vs Macro Goals34:21 Mollie's view on the “why” of data26:05 Mollie's new walking goals38:03 The new Smart Toilet39:40 *Sleep Breakthrough*41:31 Renee on stress and longevity43:26 Dr. Jay on stress as the “red-headed step child”46:45 Hanu HRV biometrics & emotional health50:29 Lauren on the over-destigmatization of mental health53:23 Renee on data sovereignty55:05 Hanu's protected data & Dr. Jay's opinion of access59:22 Renee's opinion on data advertising1:00:05 Mollie on being an informed consumer1:03:11 Dr. Jay's policy on checking data1:06:15 Lauren's on training for the “off-season”1:08:20 Renee's advice on knowing yourself1:11:23 Mollie's nighttime iPad1:15:01 Thanks for tuning in!RESOURCES:Dr. Jay Wiles WebsiteHanu Health HRV Tracker - code: BABES40Mollie Eastman WebsiteSleep Is a Skill PodcastLimitless TV SeriesNatural CyclesLevels CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor)Smart ToiletLightPath LED - Save 5% with discount code: BIOHACKERBABESSleep Breakthrough - Save 10% with discount code: BIOHACKERBABES10Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/biohacker-babes-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

When it comes to our health and wellness, we often focus on factors such as diet and exercise routines, as well as our mental and emotional states. However, one crucial aspect that is often overlooked is our heart rate variability (HRV). This simple yet powerful metric measures the variation in time between each heartbeat, providing valuable insights into our stress levels and overall health.  In today's episode of the WELLPOWER Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jay T. Wiles, the chief scientific officer of Hanu Health, about his background in clinical psychology and how his work with HRV has led to the development of a unique wearable device. This device can help individuals better manage stress and maintain optimal nervous system function. Dr. Wiles will share his expertise on the subject, and you will learn more about the fascinating world of HRV.  So, let's dive in and discover how HRV can transform the way we approach our health and wellness! (00:00:03) Heart rate variability. (00:03:47) Resiliency and HRV. (00:06:57) Understanding stress response patterns. (00:09:19) Heart rate variability explained. (00:12:23) Zero heart rate variability. (00:17:39) Stress and longevity. (00:18:26) Measuring stress objectively. (00:21:28) Self-fulfilling Prophecy and Readiness Score. (00:24:42) Harm of prolonged stress. (00:27:22) HRV readings for athletic recovery. (00:30:31) Wearable EKG Technology. (00:32:55) Wearable fitness technology. (00:36:34) Women's stress response and cycle. (00:39:02) Hormonal fluctuations and HRV. (00:42:13) Heart rate variability and genetics. (00:46:22) Heart rate variability importance. (00:49:07) Reflexive relaxation response conditioning. (00:52:00) Rise in stress perception. (00:55:21) Wearables and mental health. (00:57:27) Self-check-ins for self-awareness. (01:00:55) Starting small with meditation. (01:03:29) Body awareness and interoception. (01:06:32) Customer Service and Biohacking. (01:11:00) Cardiovascular fitness and nutrition. (01:13:21) Impact of food quantity on HRV. (01:16:47) Nature and HRV correlation. (01:20:56) Resilient nervous systems. (01:23:35) Sleep stacking with magnesium taurate. (01:25:38) Vulnerability and wellness. (01:28:43) Stoicism and enjoying life. Links: Website: Dr. Jay Coaching - Hanu Health, Inc. LinkedIn: Jay T. Wiles - Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer Instagram: Dr. Jay T. Wiles (@drjaywiles) Twitter: Dr. Jay T. Wiles (@DrJayWiles) SUPPORT THE WELLPOWER PODCAST BY SUPPORTING THE BRANDS THAT HELP FUND THIS FREE EDUCATION TOOL: VIVARAYS - Get my magic circadian rhythm goggles! In today's modern world, we are chronically exposed to artificial light day and night, disrupting the body's wake/sleep cycle. https://vivarays.com/WELLPOWER  LIGHTPATH LED -  Want the absolute BEST red light therapy panel on the market? I am crazy about the results I see with any of these panels, most especially the LIGHTPATH LED Large Pulsed Pro Series version, which I own:  https://lightpathled.com  Use code WELLPOWER to save 5%. BRAINTAP - Have you heard I voiced 2 Breathwork tracks on Braintap! Burnout paralyzes. BrainTap restores your ability, balance and energy. BrainTap breaks through the overwhelm and makes it possible for you to thrive in overdrive. Save $100 off - Braintap  MITOPURE - Protein powder and muscle maintenance that works! My best kept secret at the intersection of nutrition meets longevity!  timelinenutrition.com/wellpower   WARRIOR WOMAN MODE ONLINE - I have spent the last 20 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars figuring out how to use the body's natural metabolic pathways to work FOR YOU to make the process of elite wellness SIMPLE, INSPIRED, and filled with DAILY JOY.  https://www.wellpower.life/special  YARLAP - Are you tired of the workout "tinkle"? Muscle tone is the key to treating incontinence. When your pelvic floor muscles weaken, everything starts to shift. Yarlap® with AutoKegel® does Kegel exercise workouts for you treating urinary incontinence and toning the pelvic floor muscles for you. https://yarlap.com/ Use code WELLPOWER to save 10%. Dry Farm Wines is offering an extra bottle in your first box order for a penny (because it's alcohol, it can't be free). See all the details and choose your wine consciously with: dryfarmwines.com/wellpower THORNE SUPPLEMENTS - Set up an account in under 90 seconds and reap 15% or more of all your supplements for life with free shipping!  http://thorne.com/u/wellpower  

Episode 82 of the Long Covid Podcast is a chat with the fabulous Dr Jay T Wiles, who is a Clinical health physiologist specialising in sports performance and holistic & integrative health. He is also board certified in biofeedback and heart rate variability biofeedback which is what we're going to be covering in this episode. We chat about what HRV actually is - and then how to apply it to daily lives, especially in the context of Long Covid & chronic illness. I learned so much from speaking with Jay - I hope you do as well!hanuhealth.com Support the show~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Long Covid Podcast is self-produced & self funded. If you enjoy what you hear and are able to, please Buy me a coffee or purchase a mug to help cover costs.Share the podcast, website & blog: www.LongCovidPodcast.comFacebook @LongCovidPodcastInstagram & Twitter @LongCovidPodFacebook Support GroupSubscribe to mailing listPlease get in touch with feedback and suggestions or just how you're doing - I'd love to hear from you! You can get in touch via the social media links or at LongCovidPodcast@gmail.com

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Jay T. Wiles, a Clinical Health Psychologist who specializes in working with individuals diagnosed with mental and health-related disorders. As the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Hanu Health, a digital mental health company, Dr. Wiles is at the forefront of utilizing biometric data to track people's stress responses. Through Hanu Health's innovative approach, individuals are provided with personalized tools and training to help them self-regulate based on this data, ultimately improving their mental and physical health. Tune in to hear from Dr. Wiles on his expertise in psychophysiology and how it is changing the landscape of mental health treatment. For more on Dr. Wiles, check out his websites: https://www.drjaywiles.com/ https://www.hanuhealth.com/ Follow him on IG: @drjaywiles Follow Hanu Health IG: @hanuhealth My new book, "Live Better Now" is out now on Amazon: ⁠⁠⁠amzn.to/3csfVGw⁠⁠⁠ Zach Rance, Certified Life Coach | Certified Nutritionist Questions, Comments, or Business Inquiries Visit: ⁠⁠⁠LifeCoachZach.com⁠⁠⁠ Find me on Instagram: ⁠@zachrancey --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zachrance/message

In today's show I talk to Dr. Jay T. Wiles about Heart Rate Variability. We go really deep into all the aspects of HRV. From measuring it accurately to optimizing the factors that affect it. Everything you need to know and more!Dr. Jay T. Wiles is a clinical health psychologist, currently working as the Health Behavior Coordinator at WJB Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, SC and the Greenville Outpatient VA Clinic. He has specialized training in health behavior coaching, health assessment, nutritional interventions for mental and physical health, Motivational Interviewing, applied psychophysiology, and consultation. Dr. Wiles works as a consultant for companies/organizations, practitioners, and individual patients on nutritional psychology, health behavior change, applied psychophysiology, and health promotion/disease prevention via complementary and integrative practices.Show Highlights:What is Heart Rate Variability, and why should you measure it?How to measure your Heart Rate VariabilityThe common problems with wearable technologyOptimal ranges for your HRVHow to interpret your biometric dataWhat affects your HRV both positively and negativelyThe surprising connection between HRV and mental healthResourcesConnect with Dr. Paulvinhttps://doctorpaulvin.com/Home - Hanu Health, Inc. - Use code DRPAULVIN for 20% off

Today, I am blessed to have here with me Dr Jay T. Wiles. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Hanu Health. Dr Jay is also a prominent expert in mental health optimization, HRV, and biofeedback.  Dr Jay is a clinical health and performance psychologist. He has a master's degree in clinical therapy and then went on to his doctoral degree in clinical psychology. When he was in his residency, he and his co-workers were exposed to a toxic black mold. This led him to be more interested in health, wellness, and integrative holistic health.  Since then, his residency in the Department of Veteran Affairs grew his desire to study heart rate variability and biofeedback and how it relates to Nervous System Monitoring and functioning.  In 2018, Dr Jay launched his consulting company, which is utilized by elite athletes, high-performance executives, and CEOs to understand data from wearables while learning how to manage their nervous systems using tools and procedures.  His firm, Hanu, was founded in 2021. It is a digital mental health platform that uses wearable technology to track changes in the human stress response. They then train resilience through various techniques.   In this episode, Dr Jay speaks about heart rate variability and its relation to the nervous system. Dr Jay talks about how to gauge parasympathetic balance. Tune in as we chat about Heart Rate Variability, Nervous System, Stress, Parasympathetic Balance, measuring HRV, Pre-Meal Breathwork Sessions, and many more. Get your Hanu Health device, 20% off! Head to http://www.hanuhealth.com and use the coupon code ketokamp at checkout.  Download your FREE Vegetable Oil Allergy Card here: https://onlineoffer.lpages.co/vegetable-oil-allergy-card-download/ / / E P I S O D E   S P ON S O R S  Wild Pastures: $20 OFF per Box for Life + Free Shipping for Life + $15 OFF your 1st Box! https://wildpastures.com/promos/save-20-for-life-lf?oid=6&affid=132&source_id=podcast&sub1=ad BonCharge: Blue light Blocking Glasses, Red Light Therapy, Sauna Blankets & More. Visit https://boncharge.com/pages/ketokamp and use the coupon code KETOKAMP for 15% off your order.  Text me the words "Podcast" +1 (786) 364-5002 to be added to my contacts list.   [8:46] Heart Rate Variability Increasing? Don't Worry. Nervous System is Adapting!  -       Heart rate and heart rate variability are not the same things. We may acquire a decent insight by evaluating both of them. -       Heart rate variability is similar to examining heart rate through a microscope. -       The heart does not beat to the beat of a metronome. In reality, it rapidly accelerates and decelerates. -       Heart rate variability examines temporal variations or variance, which is the difference in time between each succeeding heartbeat. -       Increased Heart Rate Variability indicates that the nervous system is adaptable; it can assimilate information within its surroundings and adjust. [14:17] Stress is Not Bad, Just Be Adaptable and Regulate Your Nervous System  -       Remember that HRV as a metric does not often behave the same way as many other metrics that serve as the normative basis of comparison. - Several conflicting elements contribute to HRV being what it is. When we compare two people's heart rate variability, it's like comparing apples and oranges. -       A decrease in heart rate variability indicates that the nervous system is too busy and is having a tough time changing and adapting to its surroundings. -       If we are not regulating our nervous system response, as seen by a reduction in heart rate variability, it undoubtedly aggravates any other forms of physiological abnormalities. [19:20] What Is the Best Way to Gauge the Parasympathetic Balance?  -       There are other methods available, but they are often more intrusive. -       Another approach would be to examine general brainwave functioning and changes in brainwave states. -       We have so much evidence in the scientific literature that heart rate variability is now the single best non-invasive technique to have a proxy for nervous system functioning and balance. -       Many people experience nervous system assaults throughout the day, increasing over time. If they are unaware of what is going on, and especially if they are not managing their reaction at that period, we observe the emergence of a host of various mental and physical health problems. -       What we can truly do is train our neurological systems to behave in a more adaptable manner, which will make us happier. [30:17] Using the Device to Measure HRV? Look At the Stress Resiliency Number  -       The Stress Resiliency Number is a 0 to 100 number that takes all of your data and plots it on a 0 to 100 scale. -       If you don't understand how to interpret HRV, Stress Resiliency Number is a great number to look at. -       Your goal is to get yourself above that 80 to 100 thresholds, which is like our green zone. -       As the HRV goes down, so does your Stress Resiliency Number. [41:59] Digest Your Meal Better, Do A Pre-Meal Breathwork Session  -       It's a biofeedback session to help stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system and the vagus nerve prior to a meal. -       If we go into a meal and eat in a sympathetically driven state, it will cause immense dysbiosis and dysregulation of the gut. -       Do a very short practice, 60 seconds to two minutes of a breathwork session that we call pre-meal. And we also do it post-meal to start that process. -       When people do the breathwork session, their meal does not have nearly as much of an input influence on the metabolically, so we do not see significant amounts of blood sugar rise. Plus, people's nervous system recovers quickly. -       It is imperative to do something parasympathetically stimulating or stimulating our vagus nerve before and after eating. [59:09] Having A Bad Performance Anxiety? Calm Down, Focus and Work to Increase Your HRV -       One major issue that people have is experiencing bad performance anxiety during biofeedback sessions, which causes them to feel agitated and lowers their HRV. -       Don't be discouraged; this is an excellent learning opportunity for you. Address and work on the problem. -       Any upward direct movement is beneficial since it indicates that the nervous system is actively engaged. But what we want to do is gradually raise it over time. -       Work to figure out where you are, and then just go forward. Simply strive to improve by 1% every day, just as you would in any other aspect of your life. AND MUCH MORE! Resources from this episode: ●  Company Website: https://www.hanuhealth.com/ ●  Personal Website: https://www.drjaywiles.com/  ●  Podcast: https://www.hanuhealth.com/podcast/ ●  Follow Dr Jay T. 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Dr.  Jay T. Wiles is a clinical psychologist and Founder of Hanu Health. We talk about holistic mental health and simple ways to begin to gain more self-awareness of your stress & how to manage it. 

Do you feel like you have lost your balance in life? Is your hormone fluctuation disrupting your overall health and well-being?   This week on The Hormone Prescription Podcast, we are delighted to have Dr. Jay T. Wiles, an international speaker, scientist, clinician, and influencer on the subject of heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback and how it can help restore balance in your life.   Dr. Wiles will discuss why HRV is so important for midlife women and how it can be used as a powerful tool to create hormonal balance through breath-work exercises and other techniques. He'll also explain the effects of stress hormones on health performance and optimization, providing practical tips on how to manage stress naturally through diet, exercise, lifestyle changes, and more.   In this episode, you'll learn: - What is heart rate variability and why it is important for midlife women - How to measure your HRV and optimize its impact on health performance - Practical tips to manage stress naturally through lifestyle changes, such as diet and exercise - The connection between the human stress response and health performance/optimization   Don't miss this opportunity to join Dr. Jay T. Wiles in unlocking the essential hormone-balancing tool that almost everybody's missing! Tune in now for an insightful conversation about HRV biofeedback on The Hormone Prescription Podcast.   (00:00): "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Epitectus And this affects your health and your hormones. Stay tuned to find out how.   (00:11): So the big question is, how do women over 40 like us keep weight off, have great energy, balance our hormones and our moods, feel sexy and confident, and master midlife? If you're like most of us, you are not getting the answers you need and remain confused and pretty hopeless to ever feel like yourself Again. As an ob gyn, I had to discover for myself the truth about what creates a rock solid metabolism, lasting weight loss, and supercharged energy after 40, in order to lose a hundred pounds and fix my fatigue, now I'm on a mission. This podcast is designed to share the natural tools you need for impactful results and to give you clarity on the answers to your midlife metabolism challenges. Join me for tangible, natural strategies to crush the hormone imbalances you are facing and help you get unstuck from the sidelines of life. My name is Dr. Kyrin Dunston. Welcome to the Hormone Prescription Podcast.   (01:05): Hi everybody. Thanks so much for joining me for another episode of the Hormone Prescription Podcast with Dr. Kyrin. Today my guest is gonna help you get a concrete idea about what stress is doing to your body and how to know exactly what it's doing in an objective and quantified manner. He uses one of my favorite tools. Maybe you've heard me talk about H R V heart rate variability in a very unique way. So you're gonna wanna stay tuned and listen up. He really is a proponent of health and helping people optimize their health and has created some great tools that you can use. So I'll tell you a little bit about Dr. Jay Wiles and then we'll get started. He's an international speaker scientist, clinician, influencers, subject matter expert and authority on the interconnection between the human stress response and health performance optimization. Dr. Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist with board certification and heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback, and works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives and high performers.   (02:20): He is the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Hanu Health and stay tuned to find out what HANU means. He has pioneered new and innovative means of using heart rate variability, H R V and respiratory training as both diagnostic indicators of the dynamic nature of the human stress response alongside therapeutic tools for regulating and conditioning this response for PCU performance. Dr. Wiles has an extensive history of working with top performing athletes in the PGA L P G A M mls, MLB, A T P and W T A. That's a lot. His consulting firm, thrive Wellness and Performance, has held contracts with leading biotechnology and health technology organizations where he has engaged in research development of therapeutics and development of behavioral retention programs. Dr. Wiles has operated as the co-host of the Ben Greenfield podcast since 2019 and host the Hanu Health Podcast. Welcome, Dr. Jay Wiles.   (03:22): Hey, thanks for having me. Glad to be here.   (03:24): So I'm really excited to talk about this topic in the unique way that really you pose it because I think heart rate variability is very complex and people's eyes glaze over the minute you start trying to explain it, but really you come up from it from the perspective of stress resiliency, which everybody's interested in. So let's start out by talking about stress and you know, what it is in a, from a more scientific biologic perspective and why people should be important about its effects on their body. And then we can get into this unique way that you have for people to really monitor their stress so they can manage it better. (04:11): Yeah I think first and foremost, I always like to dispel the myth that stress is the bad guy. I think so often we, you know, read in the tabloids or we hear on the news or we listen to podcasts that stress is bad. Like it, it's just inherently this bad thing. And I would actually argue the exact opposite. I would argue that stress is inherently good. Now it's the compounding nature of stress that can be problematic to people's overall health and their wellbeing. But stress in and of itself is simply a warning sign. What stress is is a mechanism of taxation. It is just saying that your resources are being taxed. That can be physiological resources, that can be psychological resources. It's re experiencing some level of taxation and there are warning signs that we receive from that taxation that hopefully should signify and kind of ho help us to hone in that we need to either do something effectively to help ourselves out of this situation or maybe just acknowledge that what's going on isn't going to inherently harm us and therefore be okay with it.   (05:17): So more of like a mindful approach to stress, but kind of from the get-go. Stress in and of itself is not bad. It is inherently good. So we should always come in with the mindset that it is not this kind of, you know, nefarious thing around the corner. So when we think about how stress affects us from different perspectives, it affects us physiologically, it affects us psychologically. If it ever affects us psychologically, it always affects us physiologically. And then vice versa as well. It's a bidirectional two-way street. They're very much interconnected. And again, what I always come down to is that it is not just the singular experience of stress, but it's the compounding of stress experience that is the thing that can be problematic for people. Has it stacks up without dealing with it or acknowledging it or learning how to regulate it. That's where we find more problems.   (06:08): Yeah, we need stress to live actually , right? Yep. We need the stress of gravity on our bodies to make our bones strong. We need a certain degree of stress. They call it eres, right? You have a very unique perspective. I think a lot of people think about stress and they don't. It's just this nebulous concept, oh, stress, I'm stressed, I have too much stress, I need to de-stress. And you know, people tell them to meditate and there's really not a lot of objective data on am I meditating properly? So then people don't do it because they don't get immediate feedback. And you really kind of took a tool that is near and dear to my heart and positioned it in a way and educate people in a way that helps them monitor their stress. So talk about the technology that you use and how it can help people quantify and monitor and manage their stress better.   (07:06): So you're right in the fact that a lot of people are able to tap in to understanding their stress subjectively if they actually take the time to check in subjectively. But unfortunately, not a lot of people do that. And so what we see in the psychological literature is that a lot of people just simply kind of move along throughout their day, kind of compressing and compartmentalizing stress until finally they either do one of two things, they explode or externalize or they implode and internalize. And this happens to just about everybody. So one of the things that we are trying to do that has been kind of in the works for many, many decades now, is how can we help people to increase their awareness to the effects of stress and also those things that are triggering stress objectively? Well, there are are invasive ways of doing it, right?   (07:55): We can look at cortisol, we can look at neurotransmitter production, we can do those things, but it's debatable on number one, like can we give an accurate interpretation of that data for stress in terms of psychological stress? We can in some sense, but in other sense it's a little bit difficult to determine what came first, the chicken or the egg. But also too there are non-invasive ways of doing it. And the single greatest way of doing that, single greatest non-invasive way of tracking changes that are occurring in the human stress response or changes in the nervous system would be looking at something called heart rate variability. So heart rate variability isn't a new biometric, it's one that's been around for quite some time. But what we're learning is more and more how to not just use it as a mechanism for measurement, but also how do we use it to improve outcomes both acutely and then in the long run.   (08:47): So heart rate variability kind of at its most simple form is looking at what are the dynamic changes that are occurring in the nervous system at any given moment. In other words, it is a metric that we can use to determine changes in people's stress response as people experience stress, we see changes in in heart rate variability as people experience relaxation. We see people's changes in heart rate variability. When I explain heart rate variability, it's kind of like you mentioned earlier, it is something that sometimes people, it will just kind of, people will gloss over, like it kind of goes over their head. Like it's, it's a very in-depth type of metric, right? So I like to break it down in its most simple kind of form. A lot of people intuitively understand heart rate, right? So if you, like almost every watch now where people are just used to heart rate monitoring, if you see that my heart rate was beating at a rate of 60 beats per minute, well that means that in a span of 67 seconds, on average, it was beating every single second.   (09:47): So there was one min, one second in between every successive heartbeat. Well, for heart rate, that would be true. That would be an average of one second in between heartbeats, which would make 60 beats per minute. Now is that what's actually occurring? And the answer is no. That would not be what is actually occurring. The heart is pacing itself every single one Second, if it were, then if we go back to this metric that is heart rate variability, that person would have zero variants. So zero variability between the difference in time between successive heartbeats. That means that the heart is pacing itself like a metronome, which is not a good thing. It's actually what we see happen actually prior and during when people are having heart attacks is their heart rate variability reduces to basically zero because the heart is pacing itself. That's a sign of a lack of adaptability.   (10:38): The nervous system is, is unable to adapt. But what heart rate variability is, is it's looking at the changes in time that are occurring between your heartbeats, between the space of tumble. We call time in between heartbeats. One of the best ways to explain this is that a healthy nervous system, one that is able to adapt to stress is one that is going to be highly variable. And that may sound weird because a lot of people may think, shouldn't my heart be stable? Well, heart rate stability is very different than heart rate variability stability, which is a bit of a mouthful, but let me explain. When a natural healthy individual who is, who is, let's say more or less free of stress or quite relaxed, we see this natural event occurring in their breathing patterns and how it relates to heart rate. So we know that there's a natural phenomenon, a, an arrhythmia that occurs when people are breathing as they inhale, heart rate speeds up and as they exhale heart rate significantly slows down.   (11:38): We call that respiratory sinus arrhythmia or rsa. And what we know is that when someone has a huge increase in heart rate when they inhale and a huge decrease in heart rate as they exhale, that increases heart rate variability and creates more of what we call a resonance within the cardiovascular system. A process of what we call increasing the sensitivity of something called the barrow reflex mechanism, which is our body's maintenance of a blood pressure. It's a system when those two are acting in resonance with one another or in accordance with one another, the person that's going to feel that sense of relief, that sense of relaxation. But as someone experiences more stress, we see those two things go out of phase with one another. The blood pressure regulating mechanism in somebody's breathing rate and the way that they're breathing as well, which can cause heart rate to go up and heart cause heart rate variability to go down.   (12:32): So heart rate variability again is something that we can look at as a number and help us to determine like what is going on within the state of that person's nervous system. Because as that number goes up, we know that their parasympathetic or relaxation break is engaging. And as that number goes down, we know that something is causing a withdrawal within the nervous system and there's natural occurrences, the up and down that happen throughout the day. And then there are things that can trigger it and can cause more of a significant result in our decrease in heart rate variability indicating that someone is experiencing stress. So that's a long-winded way of kind of explaining what heart rate variability is, but that's the primary metric we're using in the technology that my company hanu, H A N U, what we created, which is a way to measure that at all times, which is very different than what most wearables are doing now, which are really just kind of looking at it either overnight or it's a spot check like let's say in the morning or some other time during the day. We're looking at what are those subtle changes in heart rate variability throughout the day that would indicate that person may be experiencing something that is triggering a stress response and their nervous system is having to kick in the high gear to respond. And the whole goal is to be able to catch it early so that we can intervene with different types of therapeutics to teach people how to better self-regulate that response.   (13:49): Yeah, I think H R V is such tremendous technology. I know that they've done some studies on covid infection looking at the H R V or heart rate variability profiles of those people who have a higher fatality rate, more severe disease compared to those who don't. And it's, it's really striking. So I love H R V not only for looking at stress resiliency, but looking at overall state of health. I used to have this rather expensive machine in when I had a brick and mortar office where we would get H R V profile every which way but loose That would really give us data on the overall health of a human. So I, I think it's valuable. So if, if people listening, you're concerned about covid or getting any type of illness and you really wanna know how fit is my system to handle it, H R V is is also useful for that. And the better your H R V V, the better you're fair if you do get a viral infection or any other illness. So I think it's super important. How do you counsel people that they can use H R V for more than just checking their stress resiliency   (15:03): Mm-Hmm. ? Yeah, so the one big one would be with athletes who are looking to increase performance in recovery. So what we know, again, if we're looking at heart rate variability, it's a proxy for changes that are occurring in the nervous system. And so one thing that we know is that if someone is either overreaching or over-training as an athlete or if someone within the performance space we know that we can actually use it as a mechanism to determine how well are they recovering? Is their nervous system adapting to their training or are they overdoing it? There's too much taxation on the nervous system and therefore that's represented in a decrease in heart rate variability. And when we see that, especially when we see a trend of a downward or of downward heart rate variability, we can then intervene and say, okay, we need to either kind of pump the brakes here.   (15:48): We need to pull back maybe today's a little bit of a lighter day or maybe we should kind of recenter or refocus your training because you're overtaxing the nervous system. And for an athlete that can obviously lead to things like injury, it's gonna decrease overall performance because these individuals are gonna be kind of operating on a kind of a lower playing field if you will, because their nervous system isn't able to handle the amount of load. And so that's one way that we use it a fair amount is kind of looking at recovery for athletes. The other thing is just really kind of understanding what are those internal or external things that are causing changes in the nervous system overall. These can be things like looking at like what are the effects of eating and nutrition and what you're putting in your body and how does that impact the nervous system?   (16:35): We've seen really interesting manifestations within the context of those we worked with at Hanu when people were eating highly o like overly processed highly sugar-laden foods or they're eating highly inflammatory oils, fried foods and the effects of that has on the nervous system. So we can see kind of after they eat these foods, how long do we see a suppression and heart rate variability that is indicative of somebody who has basically inflamed themselves with the type of food that they're eating. So we've actually worked in conjunction with many functional medicine practitioners who are kind of utilizing more or less like a elimination diet and reintegration mm-hmm diet and kind of determining kind of the effects of certain foods even on these individuals nervous systems. So it can be a really great proxy. And then we also use it too to determine the effects of other things that people may be integrating into their health and wellness routine.   (17:26): So one big one right now is sauna use and there are some individuals who will respond really well from a nervous system recovery perspective to sauna. And there are some people who quite frankly are just overdoing it. And we'll see a kind of just this really tax nervous system that is elongated because they're either spending way too much time in the sauna, they're doing it too frequently. And the same thing with like cold plunging. So you can really use it to kind of test the efficacy of different things, but also look to see how much of an impact is that having on your nervous system. We've done it with supplementation, we've done it with a lot of other things and especially in conjunction with other biometrics, other blood work biometrics. This is one that's readily available to a lot of people and is non-invasive, especially when we think about not having to do blood work.   (18:13): And just kind of looking at kind of these things in conjunction. One more that we we've done, which is really interesting and we're looking at publishing studies in this domain is looking at the fluctuation of blood glucose and how that affects heart rate variability and nervous system taxation. And as you might expect though, there's not a lot of published literature. There is some but not a lot. As people have more glycemic variability, they have more suppression of autonomic nervous system functioning or a heightened stress response. So the glycemic rollercoaster leads to suppressed H R V and increases someone's stress, experience and stress in and of itself can cause the glycemic variability rollercoaster. And then in is manifested in a reduction in heart rate variability,   (18:54): Right? So translation, everybody glycemic just means your blood sugar. So he's just talking about the blood sugar rollercoaster that I always talk about that you're on when you're eating the SAD diet, the standard American diet with you know, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, soda, all those things, your blood sugar's going up and down. And I'd love to tell people, everybody thinks when you first tell 'em about heart rate variability, that it's a measure of your heart function. And what I tell them is no, it's measuring your nervous system function. Mm-Hmm . So that's how you have to think about it. So what does stress effect your nervous system? It's me. H R V measures your nervous system function. And so it's really, I love it cuz it's a way to get at the really core part of what determines your overall health, your sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic.   (19:46): I think it's so important. I wanna just offer this quote that you shared with me before we started because I think it really gets to something that we're talking about related to stress. We suffer more in imagination than in reality. It's so true. Right? Right. Now how many people, you know, everybody listening, what are you worrying about right now? What's preoccupying your mind that you're obsessing about rolling over in your head 10 different ways, 10 different times? And how many of the things you've ever worried about like that have ever happened, right? Most of them don't ever happen. But what you don't realize is that what you're worrying about and suffering about in your imagination is affecting your health. So Dr. Jay, can you talk a little bit about that? Cuz I know there's somebody listening right now who's worrying and imagining negative outcomes. What is she doing to her heart rate variability and her overall health? That   (20:44): Quote is a great quote that comes from one of the stoic philosophers, Epictetus. And it's resonated because it's actually kind of one of the core foundational statements of C B T or cognitive behavioral therapy, which is a predominant therapy or psychotherapy modality. And one that I was heavily trained in kind of back in my my student days and and utilized quite frequently. And we build a lot, we're building a lot of the things into the application or platform that I teach or or am making. One of the things that I always come back to here is that we are really good about not being present. We're really good about focusing on those things that occurred to us in the past or trying to predict or forecast the things that are going to occur in the future. And what we know from hardcore research is that our predictive ability of what's gonna happen in the future is very, very poor.   (21:39): We're not very good at it. Well why is that? Well, we catastrophize, we concoct worse case scenarios. We generalize, we see things in black and white. A lot of those are the cognitive distortions that we can have in our head that cause us to have this narrative, this high level storytelling of what we believe what could happen. But it never comes to fruition or barely does. Or if the thing that we are predicting happens does happen, it's almost never as severe as what we anticipated. So in other words, we elongated our suffering. So even if we do suffer, we elongated it by worrying and causing all this immense amount of stress to build up. What does that do to the mind and body? Well it has extremely negative effects. First and foremost, we see that it causes significant disruption in hormonal functioning. I know that's a huge component obviously of this podcast, but we see huge dysregulation of what's called the H P A axis, the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis.   (22:41): So huge dysregulation in our secretion of cortisol, huge secretion of adrenaline and neuro adrenaline or epinephrine and nor epinephrine. And when these things happen acutely or kind of just in real time, short term, they can be quite effective. They will save your life. But when they happen over and over and over again, or it's this constant kind of low state of stress or medium state of stress, not like the real height one that can be, or I should say is worse than kind of these just kind of acute stresses where we dump cortisol, we dump adrenaline, and then all of a sudden we clear it. The problem here is that more and more this happens, the more and more we see increased heart rate in which we know is really bad for our overall cardiovascular health. The high resting heart rate due to stress and the secretion of these hormones and neurotransmitters is not great on the body.   (23:30): Our heart only has a finite amount of times that it's gonna tick and we don't know how long that's gonna be. So any way that we can preserve those ticks of the heart the better. The other thing too is kind of the immense amount of dysregulation that can happen with things like blood pressure. We do know in fact that these things can significantly impact people who have hypertension or lead to hypertension certainly will exacerbate people who have, again, high blood pressure or hypertension. And we see this also too in just dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system. And this will manifest by dysregulation and heart rate variability. So low heart rate variability because someone is stuck in their head and level of thinking. And what I always say is this is outside of anything that you're putting into your body. So outside of, you know, any caloric intake or exercise or these other things that we know are going to influence the autonomic nervous system, this is simply just the brain just being stuck in our own thoughts and catastrophizing and concocting worst case scenarios.   (24:31): So we know that our imagination can be quite helpful, but it also can be to our detriment and can lead us down a very destructive path. Which is why I say like there's so many tools and techniques and great therapies that I recommend that kind of utilize this objective data and really is more about kind of turning in and changing your physiology. But another way of changing our physiology is changing our pattern of thinking. It's identifying what are kind of those distorted ways of thinking that really lead us down and spiral down into a really bad path. And how do we kind of modify those and work through those because we know that those can spiral down into anxiety, depression, other mental health related concerns, but can actually be caught early through things like monitoring, self-monitoring. So kind of monitoring thoughts and being aware of them, but also objective monitoring and looking at kind of the impact on the nervous system by looking at data. That was probably more of a long-winded way of answering that question, but, but thoughts matter. Inherently they matter.   (25:36): They do, they're so important. You know, what you think is affecting your health. I talk about that a lot. I know some people are probably wondering right now. Okay, we know Dr. Jay, you've got a company, we're certainly gonna talk about that. But what are all the different ways, we touched on it earlier of measuring H R V cuz some people listening probably are thinking, oh, I wanna do that. I hear how valuable it is. What are the different methods that we can use and how might somebody start to integrate this into their life?   (26:08): It's a a great question. You know what I, the wearable space or wearables have become ubiquitous. So I mean you can look on me right now. I have a Garmin, I have an Aura, I have a whoop and then my hanu is is on right now . So I have so many like different types of wearables and you know, one of it is because I'm just very interested in data and I don't expect people to be nearly as interested in data as I am. But I also use them and monitor them for, for different reasons depending on kind of like my goals and what I want to get out of them. The great thing about wearables being ubiquitous is that also heart rate variability being a metric that they collect that is also readily available in a lot of these different wearables. So, so all of these Garmin, you know, got or I got whoop and then obviously hannu, they all track heart rate variability.   (26:52): They do it very differently both in how they're measuring but also when they're measuring, which is really important And there's plenty of really amazing apps out there, you know, even outside of Annu as a platform, like we're a mental health platform. But you can also look at, you know, companies like Elite HR V and H R V for training which do H R V monitoring a little bit differently, but again, readily available and accessible to a bulk majority of people. So I always tell people know kind of why you're measuring and know what you're measuring. So the why can be a, a wider array of things that we just mentioned. Nervous system recovery for athletics and and performance. It can be for stress monitoring. So just kind of know your why and there's different platforms for kind of different reasons. And then also know kind of how it's measuring and what it's measuring.   (27:37): So for instance, at Hanu we use a continuous wearable E C G that's gonna give us high quality, accurate data under just about every single condition. And that is actually looking at the electrical output of the heart. So it's looking at the direct signal of the heart as opposed to some of the other wearables are using light sensing based technology, which is an indirect way of looking at the heart. So it's not picking up the electrical pulse, it's looking at a waveform that is basically a light that's shining through the skin, picking up, kind of changes in in blood flow kind of with within the capillaries. And then it's saying that must be a pulse so therefore there's a heartbeat. What makes that really great is that it's non-invasive and it's kind of just readily like you're able to put it on and go.   (28:22): Ours you're able to put it on and go as well, but you know, it's around kind of the, the, the chest or the sternum. So therefore it's a little bit more invasive than, you know, getting it on the wrist or the finger. The reason though that the wrist and the finger can be problematic is that when you're moving that provides a lot of what we call artifacts. So a lot of noise and it's hard sometimes to pull the signal. We can approximate heart rate pretty well, but heart rate variability can be very difficult. That's why most of these devices require you to be a very still when you're taking heart rate variability or it takes your heart rate variability when you are asleep, which is something like Aura does or a whoop does. They're looking at HR V when you're asleep, not when you're awake because when you're moving it's very hard to get that signal.   (29:02): Whereas with an EC G you can get that all the time. So these platforms are great because you know, you can look at recovery of the nervous system. You can look at kind of you know, is there kind of a downward trend of heart rate variability and that's kinda the information that you're gonna get. But if you're looking at kind of a mental health perspective throughout the day, then it might be great for you to have something that is continuously looking at changes in heart rate variability so that it can tell you kind of in the moment to provide that kind of trigger to you and say I see something kind of going on right now. It might be time for you to either take a break and we can either do some meditation, some biofeedback, some breath work, you know, whatever it may be. Like that's kind of more the intention of wearing something that is continuously monitoring those metrics. So it really just kind of depends on, you know, your goal. Like are you looking more just to kind of spot check for recovery, kind of check in with the nervous system or do you want to have something that's monitoring continuously so that you can adapt and make changes throughout the day or kinda learn to become more self-aware and learn how to better self-regulate.   (30:07): So as you're talking, I'm kind of getting that because I'm familiar with all these other devices. I haven't been thrilled with the utility, clinical utility for people of certain wearables. Like the Ring, I basically have people use something that they do an intensive evaluation, you know, periodically throughout the day in the morning and evening. But you know, as you're talking it's, it's sounding kind of like continuous glucose monitoring, which when I first heard about it I said, well that's great for diabetics. But then some of my colleagues started using it for their coaching clients who are more in the wellness space. And I thought wow that's, and this is kind of my reaction to a lot of the things that I've learned over my past 12 years into becoming fellowship trained in functional medicine. At first, like when I heard about IV therapy I s VI micronutrient therapy, I said, that's so extreme and so unnecessary.   (31:00): And then when I learned about it I was like, that is so necessary and so valuable. And I find that this is the journey that a lot of lay people have to go through as well. When they first hear about these things, they first hear about all the types of testing and evaluation and treatment that I use, their first thought is, that's so radical. I don't need that. You know, it's not offered at my H M O doctor's office. I don't need to pay for that. And then when they learn more, they listen to the podcast, they learn more, they say, oh my gosh, I have to have that. So as you're talking, cuz I know when I first heard about what your company offered, I thought I don't need to know that much about my H R V, but as you're talking I'm thinking it's just like continuous glucose monitoring.   (31:45): Yeah, it's continuous H R V monitoring and how valuable that could be. Like if I'm sitting here doing work like I've been doing for a few hours, I might not cognitively or consciously realize that my body might be going distress mode. It might take me much longer and it usually does cuz I'll work like crazy and then hours later I'll go like, oh my gosh, I'm so exhausted. Mm-Hmm . So anyway, I know I'm kind of on a monologue, but I love for my audience to really be taken through my thought process journey cuz I think it helps them become more educated about how to think about their own health. Right. So what are your thoughts?   (32:24): We make the comparison to continuous glucose monitoring all the time. What we know is that the rollercoaster that people can experience in terms of blood sugar fluctuation can cause a lot of deleterious effects. So the idea would be is to instill as much stability as possible without, you know, with the knowledge that like when you eat certain foods, like you're gonna have an increase in blood glucose, but it's the ups and downs and ups and downs and ups and downs and ups and downs all day long that happen. You know, the first thing you wake up and you eat that sugary pastry or donut that kind of kicks start the day that can cause those problems. Heart rate variability is very similar. So like within our application what we do is that when you first put it on, we're monitoring to figure out what is this person's baseline range, which in Layman's peak is kind of like what's their high average, what's their low average and then what's kind of right in the middle?   (33:17): Like where do they normally hang out in terms of their heart rate variability? And over time we're able to kind of refine that window, you know, based on context, situation, a lot of other things. And what we're really looking to do is say, okay, how often is their heart rate variability significantly changing and one way or another how much are were they dropping outside of their baseline range? Which is significant, which means that their nervous system is experiencing enough taxation for us to be alerted to it. Okay, interesting. What's going on here? And then also in the other direction, when are things kind of going up above their baseline, which may mean that they're really primed, they're in a very relaxed state, maybe they're meditating, maybe they're doing biofeedback. So we're able to kind of look at that throughout the day. So for our goal, just like what you mentioned earlier, is to be able to provide a signal, a level of awareness to people when it makes sense for us to provide that and say we see something going on right now and maybe you're writing those emails or whatever it may be.   (34:16): This is a huge one for me. I always like to tell this story. And a lot of people don't realize they're doing this until they realize they're, they're doing this mm-hmm. , which is something called email apnea. It's the holding of your breath when you're typing in email. And a lot of people do it and especially if you're writing a lot of emails, like you'll see your nervous system like it really taxed like your hurry very belly will drop because I mean, it's a stress response. You're holding your breath without being consciously aware of what's going on. And so a lot of people are like, oh my goodness, I didn't realize I was doing that until I started seeing, yeah, my heart rate variability was dropping. And then now that I'm kind of pacing my breathing and getting back into more of this relaxed parasympathetic state, like now I'm regulating myself better and I'm not seeing kind of these huge drops that we know that more and more that we have of them and the more and more severe they become, the worse it is for our overall psychological and physiological health.   (35:10): So our intention is to work very similar to a blood glucose monitor continuously saying I am monitoring kind of with my, you know, microscope what's going on within your nervous system. And when we see a significant event in your nervous system occur that we feel like, yep, that's enough to alert them, the user will get an alert and they will and will say, okay, it's time to check in. Number one, we want you to say what's going on here and is it affecting you subjectively mm-hmm . Because when you look back in retrospect, we want to be able to say, oh yeah, over the last week or last month, you know, the thing that was really getting me was my commute. Like I was out riding, you know, in the middle of New York City. I have to commute in the middle of that for an hour and my nervous system was wrecked for that entire hour every single day.   (35:54): Now there's the opportunity to do something about it, you're aware of it. Now let's learn how to self-regulate within that in that moment. Identifying the triggers is always important because it leads to us becoming more self-aware. But the kicker is learning how to regulate yourself in that moment and in time because we can have all this great data and information and, and it's most basic form. It's just data, it's just information. It's what about the step that comes after it? How are we gonna condition a new behavior that's different than what you might normally do because maybe your normal commute behavior is, you know, spurting out curse words, shooting the bird, like, you know, being aggressive. Don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. Maybe the new behavior is learning how to self-regulate in the moment so that you aren't feeling all that tension, all that emotional dysregulation that may manifest itself in you yelling at your family when you get home after your commute. Or you know, writing a nasty email when you get home because you're already pint up and frustrated and you're like, now time to release the anger. All of these things are connected to one another. And while we talk a lot about the data and the science, it all comes down to learning how to better regulate yourself. Learning how to better emotionally regulate yourself mm-hmm. so that it doesn't negatively impact all of these areas of life that maybe it is impacting now.   (37:06): Right. That's a great thing. Topic to touch on before we wrap up is what are some things that people can start to do just even today if they notice that they're in the stress state, where they certainly, if you're listening, you need to start checking your H R V for sure. But what are some things that people can do?   (37:26): Yeah, the great thing about this is that the most, the most efficacious or effective tools that we have that we've seen in the literature and the research literature are ones that are readily available and easily accessible to everybody at any given time. Regardless of whether or not you have a monitor or any ti or you're, you're looking at any different biometrics, which is a phenomenal thing that we have been built and designed to be able to regulate utilizing what's readily available. So I know that sounds cryptic, so let me just explain what I mean. , what I mean is, is in   (38:01): English, in   (38:02): English, right, in English breathing, breathing is the single greatest way to send a different signal to the nervous system. If you want to relax in the moment and train your nervous system to relax in the moment, learning how to change the mechanics of your breathing change and then changing the cadence or the speed of breathing are the two greatest things that you can do. A lot of times when people are stressed, we breathe what's called thoracically or in other words from the chest. It's a shallow, inefficient way of breathing, but we do so. And if we do it fast enough, we call that hyperventilation, which happens if somebody's having a panic attack. And what we see is people who have a panic attack, heart rate flies up the roof, the heart rate variability sinks like a rock. So what we can do in the moment though, is just simply change two things.   (38:52): One is the mechanics, moving it from the chest down to the belly, engaging what's called your diaphragm, which means pushing the diaphragm towards the pelvic floor, allowing the stomach almost to balloon of the lungs to expand breathing what we call low, slow and deep, not taking in as much air as you can that can be problematic, but breathing low, slow and then deep into the lungs. That can excite our vagus nerve increase what I'd mentioned earlier, what was called respiratory sinus arrhythmia, which is the speeding and the slowing of the heart and then work on exhaling slowly and then also doing it nasally from the nose. A lot of people when they get stressed, they breathe from their mouth. So breathing from the nose and changing the mechanics. And then the second component, what I mentioned was cadence. The simple way to do this is just inhale to account of four and exhale to count of six.   (39:43): If you do that, that will put you at a pace of six breaths per minute, which we know is a pretty good sweet spot for a lot of people. And you can make it also too, just an even breath, five seconds in, five seconds out. But breathing is single-handedly the best way of doing this. And again, readily available to you at any given moment in time. No one has to know you're doing it, which is the beauty of it. , you know, we just add the data component in terms of are are my company hanu? Because it helps to condition the behavior. When you can see your nervous system making significant change, you want to come back to it cuz you're like, oh, it's not just subjectively I feel better, which is good. That's the key. We want you to feel better like that is number one.   (40:21): But if you want to condition a behavior, seeing those data change, well that just reinforces that this right here is working. Like I see change in my nervous system, it's responding, it's adapting as we think it should. So breathing as key point number one. Number two thing that I, that I recommend, which is also readily available to us, would be kind of the mental battle aspect. And the biggest tool that I use is a tool in C B T called cognitive distancing. A lot of times when we're in the moment and we're feeling stressed, it is very easy to get wrapped up into the mind. I think that the first thing you should do is try to send a different signal physiologically. But the next thing is also to take a different approach psychologically or what we call cognitively. The one thing that we can so easily do is get wrapped up in that cognitive spiral that we were talking about earlier.   (41:13): However, a great tool that a lot of people have been have found to be effective is to remove yourself from your cognition with something called cognitive distancing. And what this strategy looks like is basically taking like an outsider view of what is going on that is purely objective, viewing things as neither good nor bad, almost just like you're a scientist and analyzing things just as what they are. So it's taking yourself away from kind of all of the impact and emotional thinking that happens and saying, I'm just gonna take an outside's view at what I'm thinking and just kind of look at it, be mindful of it. What that distancing does is it beautifully allows us to not be so wrapped up in all of the emotional characteristics that are involved and simply just see it for what it is. And so many people say that when they impact their physiology and when when they engage in this cognitive distancing strategy, people just feel more relaxed because they feel more in control.   (42:14): The thing that can so dysregulate people is when they feel like they are out of control or they have no impact on their emotional regulation or experience and when that occurs then we see the emotions start to ramp up and they lead to more negative behaviors. But if we can change the physiology with the body, so change the body with the body and then move to cha helping to rework our thinking, those two combinations of therapeutics have just been identified to be extremely effective in helping people to just calm down in the moment which is needed for everybody. Yes.   (42:50): Okay, great. Those are some great tips. I love breath work, talk about it all the time. And also changing your thoughts cuz that really does program your body's health. And if you haven't heard me talk about that, you need to listen to more of my podcasts cuz I talk about it all the time. Dr. Jay, this has been some great information. I love the conversation about one of my favorite tools, heart rate variability, where can people find out more about you? And I know that you have a special offer if they do wanna check out Hanu for them. So tell them about that and we'll have the information in the show note.   (43:26): Yeah, thanks for allowing me to do that. So if you just go head on over to hanu Health, h A N U and Hawaiian Hanu is Hawaiian for breath, which is our main strategy that we use for self-regulation. So hanu health.com if you use the code hbh 20, that's Hbh 20, that'll get you 20% off the platform. You know, feel free to kind of look at over, we have a lot of education and articles and videos and our own podcasts, the H new Health podcast. So we try to provide as much information out there as we can. Like, you know, the one thing that we realize is that it's dense, like heart rate variability, you know, psychophysiology, it's dense and people already probably listen to this podcast and they're like, yeah, that, that sounds like it's a in-depth thing. The great thing though is that it's utility. Once you kind of understand just the basic platform, it's utility is just so incredibly vast and wide and something that again, I mean I might sound like the fox guarding the hidden house, but something that everybody should be checking. And they will find such improvements in overall health outcomes if they understand what they're looking at and then understand kind of how to utilize that metric in these, in these training therapeutics.   (44:33): Mm-Hmm. . Yeah, and I just want everyone to know, I always try and tie things back to hormones cuz it is the Hormone Prescription podcast that improving your H R V will improve your hormone profile. Mm-Hmm. . So they are intimately an intricately related and you improve one, you improve the other vice versa. So I wanna leave you guys with another quote that Dr. Jay shared with me before we started because I think it's really sobering and hopefully will help you focus your mind for the rest of the day and get out away from all that extraneous stuff, the things you're imagining in the future that could be negative, that could impact you negatively and the things you're ruminating on from the past that you have no power over. And here's his quote, you could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do, what you say, and what you think. Dr. Jay, anything you'd like to share about that?   (45:31): Yeah, if anybody has heard the, the two quotes that I mentioned there, they'll know that these are both stoic quotes. Epictetus first and that was Marcus Aurelius. And I love that one because it hones in on the shortness of life. Not something that we should fear death, but something that we should use as a motivator is that the time here is very short. And so if we are going to spend so much of that time allowing anxiety to rule us, allowing it to kind of dictate the things that we do in life, how we act, who we associate with, then we're gonna leave life unfortunately with some regrets and nobody wants that. And so knowing that life is short, we should actually use that as a motivation to go out there and just live life and enjoy it and be happy and be healthy and just follow that path. And I think it's really great wisdom.   (46:20): Yes, go live your life, be happy, joyous free. Thanks so much for joining me for another episode of the Hormone Prescription Podcast. Thank you Dr. Jay for joining us. Hopefully you've learned something today that you can put into practice. Don't just be entertained and educated, but take action. Maybe just do some deep different breathing like Dr. Jay talked about. That's something simple that you can do right now. Thanks so much for joining me and I'll see you next week on another episode of The Hormone Prescription with Dr. Kirin. Until then, peace, love, and hormones y'all.   (46:57): Thank you so much for listening. I know that incredible vitality occurs for women over 40 when we learn to speak hormone and balance these vital regulators to create the health and the life that we deserve. If you're enjoying this podcast, I'd love it if you give me a review and subscribe. It really does help this podcast out so much. You can visit the hormone prescription.com where we have some free gifts for you, and you can sign up to have a hormone evaluation with me on the podcast to gain clarity into your personal situation. Until next time, remember, take small steps each day to balance your hormones and watch the wonderful changes in your health that begin to unfold for you. 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In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak to Dr. Stephen Cabral about the pros and cons of functional medicine. What is functional medicine, and what are the differences between functional medicine vs. traditional western medicine doctors? (3:37) Why the explosion of functional medicine doctors and how the traditional western medical system is broken. (10:40) Building the “super” doctor. (18:19) The pros and cons. (20:16) The ‘silver bullet' mentality. (25:41) The process behind his certification courses and why his goal is to get people to take back control of their health. (28:51) His favorite ‘biohacking' tool. (32:41) Putting a health coach in every home. Breaking down his L1 certification course and the benefits and value for personal trainers and coaches. (37:56) Breaking down his L2 certification course and how coaches can learn to analyze functional medicine labs in detail in addition to recommending corresponding protocols. (53:56) The enormous value of these certifications for trainers and coaches. (1:04:50) Related Links/Products Mentioned For Mind Pump Listeners, visit Integrative Health Practitioner Certification Courses for $100 off IHP L1 and $250 off L2. **Code MINDPUMP at checkout** November Promotion: MAPS OCR or MAPS Cardio HALF OFF! **Promo code NOVEMBER50 at checkout** The Rain Barrel Effect: How a 6,000 Year Old Answer Holds the Secret to Finally Getting Well, Losing Weight & Feeling Alive Again! – Book by Stephen Cabral Oura Ring: Accurate Health Information Accessible to Everyone Home - Hanu Health, Inc. For Mind Pump Listeners, get The Minerals & Metals At-Home Lab Test for 50% off! Mind Pump #1780: Why Blood Tests Are Overrated With Dr. Stephen Cabral Mind Pump #1910: How To Uncover Hidden Hormone Imbalances With Dr. Stephen Cabral Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources Featured Guest Dr. Stephen Cabral (@stephencabral) Instagram Website Podcast Dr. Jay T. Wiles (@drjaywiles) Instagram

Jay T. Wiles, Clinical Health Psychologist, HRV Subject Matter Expert, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Hanu Health. Dr. Jay is currently working as the Health Behavior Coordinator at WJB Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, SC and the Greenville Outpatient VA Clinic. He has specialized training in health behavior coaching, health assessment, nutritional interventions for mental and physical health, Motivational Interviewing, applied psychophysiology, and consultation. Dr. Wiles works as a consultant for companies/organizations, practitioners, and individual patients on nutritional psychology, health behavior change, applied psychophysiology, and health promotion/disease prevention via complementary and integrative practices. He is also Board Certified in Tai Chi for Rehabilitation.Biohacker babes, Lauren Sambataro and Renee Belz.Lauren and Renee grew up in a health-driven family that prioritized the fundamentals of wellness and self-care. Their father, Gene Sambataro, The Original Biohacker and pioneer of Holistic Dentistry, taught them the importance of individualization and experimentation from a very young age. Renee, a Certified Nutritional Consultant and Holistic Lifestyle Coach with a Master's degree in Nutrition, and Lauren, a Broadway performer, Corrective Exercise Specialist, and Functional Health Coach, feel a strong passion and drive to not only share each of their journeys toward wellness, but their strategy and motivation to discover our unique bodies through the world of Biohacking. Their podcast, the Biohacker Babes, aims to create insight into the body's natural healing abilities, strengthen your intuition, and empower you with techniques and modalities to optimize your health and wellness.SHOW NOTES: 

Performance psychologist and heart rate variability (HRV) expert Dr. Jay Wiles joins us for episode 74 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.Dr. Jay has worked with professional athletes, including MLB, PGA and MLS, using biofeedback techniques to optimize performance. His latest endeavor is  @Hanu Health , a cutting-edge biohacking wearable technology that measures heart rate variability to improve stress resilience and cognitive performance. Follow along as Dr. Jay shares his personal journey, and learn how working with veterans using integrative pain management set him on a path to learning everything he could about the interconnection between physical and mental health challenges. Hear Dr. Jay deftly explain exactly how the nervous system works, and how mastering your heart rate variability is the key to reducing stress. And how stress reduction, in turn, positively affects both physical and mental health.We delve into why stress is so prevalent in America, and how the body responds to different types of stress. Still not sure what heart rate variability is? Dr. Jay illuminates the concept, detailing how HRV is measured, what it means for your health, and how Hanu helps you learn how to manage and control it.Of course, we go far out, as Dr. Jay lets Faust in on an incredible sensory deprivation experience. Hint: DMT enters the conversation.There's even a UFO encounter story — stay till the end to hear how it happened.Connect with Dr. Jay WilesWebsite: https://www.drjaywiles.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/drjaywilesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJayWiles/Explore Hanu HealthWebsite: https://www.hanuhealth.comYouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCsTH_hVrWE84q__HKqDIQZgInstagram: https://instagram.com/hanuhealthFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/hanuhealth/#Podcast #HRV #HeartHealth

Learn how to become more resilient to stress by using breathing to increase your HRV with Dr Jay T Wiles. Dr Wiles is an expert and authority on the interconnection between the human stress response and health performance and optimization. Dr. Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist with board certification in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback and works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives, and high performers. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Hanu Health. He has pioneered new and innovative means of using heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory training as both diagnostic indicators of the dynamic nature of the human stress response, alongside therapeutic tools for regulating and conditioning this response for peak human performance. Dr. Wiles has an extensive history of working with top-performing athletes in the PGA, LPGA, MLS, MLB, ATP, and WTA. His consulting firm, Thrive Wellness and Performance, has held contracts with leading biotechnology and health technology organizations where he has engaged in research, development of therapeutics, and development of behavioral retention programs. Dr. Wiles has operated as the cohost of the Ben Greenfield Podcast since 2019 and hosts the Hanu Health Podcast. 0:31 Introduction of Dr Jay Wiles 1:13 What is stress resiliency? 2:42 Our ability to adapt to stress 4:07 Why our ability to respond to stress decreased compared to the past? 4:13 Microtraumas 6:06 Hormetic stress 7:37 HRV is a good way to measure stress 7:49 What is HRV and why it is a non-invasive proxy to measure stress 10:20 Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) relationship to respiratory cycles 11:48 Why heart rate decreases when you exhale 12:18 Vagus nerve responsible for speeding and slowing of heart rate 12:48 Baroreflex mechanism (baroreceptors influence blood pressure regulation) 14:14 Difference between homeostasis and allostasis 16:26 How to influence HRV through breathing 18:08 Why baseline HRV doesn't matter as much as how you can influence it through breathing 19:00 Does increasing HRV correlate to a reduction in stress? 21:13 How breathing creates nice symmetrical peaks and valleys 22:28 The association between heart rates being high or low and HRV 23:35 Relationship between blood pressure and HRV 24:01 How does HRV change through the sleep cycles 25:32 Is REM sleep associated with more stress? 26:18 Why a decrease in HRV is not always bad or indicate stress 27:28 HRV and depression 29:29 How Oura ring and Whoop measure HRV differently 33:47 Why you shouldn't compare HRV to other people 34:23 Your ability to respond to stress is measured by your change in HRV 36:01 HRV decreases as we get older 38:06 Cardiovascular fitness improves HRV and our ability to handle stress 38:58 Increasing stress resilience with exercise 40:02 HIIT training vs low-intensity cardio: Which is best for improving HRV? 40:43 What are the zones in cardio training? 41:53 Why heart rate is a better proxy for the stress of exercise over HRV 43:56 How cortisol and adrenaline affect HRV 44:48 How diet affects HRV 45:10 Affect of cortisol on HRV 46:25 How fasting influences HRV 47:35 Using the Relaxator and Hana HRV device 48:24 How does Hana compare to Oura and Whoop 48:36 More on how the Hanu HRV device works throughout the day 50:55 Everyone who purchases HanuHealth.com gets a free Relaxator for the first 1,000 orders 52:02 Breathing exercises to help with stress and influence HRV 53:54 Jon Bischke, Hanu Co-Founder, found breathwork to be the most important thing to influence HRV 54:19 Resonance frequency breathing is Jay's favorite breathing practice 55:17 Breathing exercises built into HanuHealth app 56:47 Affects of Wim Hof method of breathing on HRV 57:59 Mouth taping increases HRV while sleeping 58:47 Nasal breathing slows down breathing and increases nitric oxide 59:19 Creating CO2 tolerance 59:45 BOLT score 1:00:20 Explain more of how Resonance Frequency works 1:02:12 Relationship of brainwave states with HRV 1:03:06 Preorder hanuhealth.com Composite stress resiliency score 1:03:42 Hanu Health Podcasts    

Dr. Jay T. Wiles is a clinical health psychologist, currently working as the Health Behavior Coordinator at WJB Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, SC and the Greenville Outpatient VA Clinic. He has specialized training in health behavior coaching, health assessment, nutritional interventions for mental and physical health, Motivational Interviewing, applied psychophysiology, and consultation.LEADING EXPERT IN:Holistic Mental HealthHeart Rate Variability and BiofeedbackHealth CoachingStress MitigationPeak PerformanceNutritional PsychologyJOIN US TODAY AS WE EXPLORE:Good stress and bad stress: help perform or inhibitStress, at its core is a good thingThe impact of nutrition and diet on physical and mental wellbeingHeart rate variability and biofeedback; HRV and the autonomic nervous systemAcknowledge pain and distress to be able to work through itHanu Health wearable and other measurablesBlood markers and their valueBiohacking measurables and stress baselineHow to combat stressGlucose and stressBreathwork's power in combating stress5 love languages and stress leveCONTACT:Website: https://www.drjaywiles.com/https://www.hanuhealth.com/Schedule a FREE 15 min discovery call with Steve and let's get started on your journey to thriving: https://bit.ly/3BcTsFwSUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:As much as we love doing it, there are costs involved and any contribution will allow us to keep going and keep finding the best guests in the world to share their health expertise with you. I'd be grateful and feel so blessed by your support: https://www.patreon.com/MadeToThriveShowCONTACT Steve Stavs and join our community:https://www.facebook.com/MadeToThriveZA/     https://www.facebook.com/SteveStavsZA/https://www.instagram.com/stevestavsza/  Send me a WhatsApp to +27 64 871 0308. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our videos. https://madetothrive.co.za/terms-and-...

Todays Q&A is all about our brand new product launch! Be one of the first 1,000 people to pre-order the brand new, Hanu Health wearable and get the absolute best deal! $29 down and 40% off retail price for the first 1,000 customers who pre-order the Hanu Health wearable at hanuhealth.com. In this episode, you will discover: -The Hanu Health device is primarily a daytime device. Intended to be worn through the day...08:40 -Increase level of self-awareness. Our physiology does not lie. We can try to convince ourselves out of stress, but the body really does keep the score. -Our device offers real-time training for stress resilience and better self regulation making you more adaptive to stress...11:20 Questions from the Dr. Question #1: What metrics are you tracking with Hanu and why, and how are you measuring them?...14:55 In my answer, I discuss: Every measurement comes from physiological data HRV, Heart Rate, and movement are the things our device will track. SRS: Stress Resiliency Score is an aggregate score to tell you how resilient you are to stress. We are looking at macro and micro changes in heart rate which are both useful indicators for measuring nervous system functioning. Movement is a key feature. Heart rate naturally responds to movement, so the software is sophisticated enough to capture movement factors as they relate to HRV. Data is always used self-comparatively rather than normative comparisons. HRV measurement is RMSSD for parasympathetic output or vagal flow You will be able to toggle in and out of advanced mode to get some really dense data points on HRV. PPG sensor made by Skosh and Valencell. The most accurate sensor array for all skin tones. Question #2: What is resonance frequency and how is it assessed and used for training?...25:25 In my answer, I discuss: There is no device on the market right now that measures resonance frequency. Dr. Lair, a Hanu Health advisor, coined the term "resonance frequency" and created the protocol for resonance training. Resonance frequency: The Hanu app takes you through a 12 minute assessment to find your unique resonant frequency rate. The Hanu device will pace you at your own breath rate that will auto populate through your assessment. This customization is awesome. Question #3: Are there times when it doesn't make sense to measure HRV?...33:25 In my answer, I discuss: The answer is yes; as of now. There is no need for continuous HRV monitoring. Any type of hormetic stress will reduce in a reduction of heart rate variability. Exercise is a hormetic stress, so it's not an ideal time to measure HRV. It's more important to measure HRV pre and post exercise. Take a listen to the podcast I did with Marco Altini on Sports Performance and HRV to learn more about how HRV increases after Zone 2 training. https://www.hanuhealth.com/episode-16-hrv-measurements-and-best-practices-with-marco-altini/ (Marco Altini Episode) Times of excessive movement are not valuable times for HRV measurement. You have a modified HRV while you eat. It is usually lower, because there is a lot of energy expenditure when you eat. HRV is modified while talking. -Our technology will not penalize you for exercising, eating, or talking (because why should you be?). You can provide the input to the smart application for great HRV data. The Host Dr. Jay T. Wiles is an international speaker, scientist, clinician, influencer, and subject-matter expert and authority on the interconnection between the human stress response and health performance/optimization. Dr. Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist with board certification in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback and works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives, and high performers. He has pioneered new and innovative means of using heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory training as both...

Jay covers some interesting findings from a new scientific study and delves deeply into questions from listeners about slow-paced breathing, biomarker comparisons, and a comparison of time and domain frequency measurements. In this episode, you'll learn: -Submit your questions and possibly win Hanu Health swag...02:00 -Learn what the Hanu Health business is all about...04:40 -A good explanation of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system...08:00 -Where HRV comes into play...10:45 -Dr. Wiles summary of a new study on slow breathing, HRV, and arterial baroreflex sensitivity...12:55 -Learn different strategies to help regulate heart rate...19:40 -Comparing slow paced vs. fast paced breathing in regards to HRV...23:40 -The best practice is the practice that you do...34:30 -Why we compare certain biomarkers but not HRV...42:45 -The difference between time domain and frequency domain measurements...54:20 -And much more! Dr. Jay T. Wiles is an international speaker, scientist, clinician, influencer, and subject-matter expert and authority on the interconnection between the human stress response and health performance/optimization. Dr. Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist with board certification in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback and works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives, and high performers. He has pioneered new and innovative means of using heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory training as both diagnostic indicators of the dynamic nature of the human stress response, alongside therapeutic tools for regulating and conditioning this response for peak human performance. https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-gratitude-and-how-to-build-a-gratitude-practice/ (Dr. Andrew Huberman's podcast on Gratitude)

Dr. Jay T. Wiles is an international speaker, scientist, clinician, influencer, and subject-matter expert and authority on the interconnection between the human stress response and health performance/optimization. Dr. Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist with board certification in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback and works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives, and high performers. He has pioneered new and innovative means of using heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory training as both diagnostic indicators of the dynamic nature of the human stress response, alongside therapeutic tools for regulating and conditioning this response for peak human performance. In this episode, you'll discover: -Why we should be concerned with heart rate variability (HRV)...05:20 -An overview of HRV and how it differs from your heart rate...10:46 -Where we often miss the point of tracking HRV...20:36 -Question: What is HRV training?...25:30 -Question: Should I be concerned with a comparatively low HRV score?...36:12 -Question: What ways outside of breathwork to build HRV?...46:03 Resources mentioned in this episode: https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/podcast/self-quantification-podcasts/what-is-heart-rate-variability/ (Dr. Wiles' overview of HRV on the Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast) Dr. Wiles' personal website https://hanuhealth.com/waitlist (Hanu Health Waitlist) https://amzn.to/3qOBmGN (Atomic Focus by Patrick McKeown) https://amzn.to/3nyRCty (Heart, Breath and Mind by Leah Lagos) Hanu Podcast w/ Dr. Leah Lagos https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ada48ded-9dac-4ef8-aa29-2ead2a8ff29c (Hanu podcast w/ Dr. Nathan Bryan) https://www.instagram.com/hanuhealth/?hl=en (@hanuhealth Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/drjaywiles/?hl=en (@drjaywiles Instagram)

In This Episode: The way you perform under stress is closely connected to the breath. Dysregulated breathing limits your ability to perform mentally, physically, and emotionally. However, by training your body to use oxygen more effectively you will optimize performance while growing resilient to stress. In this episode, we're diving into the biochemistry of breathing with Dr. Jay Wiles, a clinical health psychologist, and board-certified biofeedback practitioner. You'll learn how to use oxygen more effectively by creating a state of "air hunger," why this practice improves self-regulation, and just for fun, the most surprising biohack he's discovered in the last year to reduce stress and boost HRV. Episode Guest: Dr. Jay T. Wiles, BCB, BCB-HRV Dr. Wiles is a clinical health psychologist who is board-certified in biofeedback, HRV biofeedback, and Tai Chi for rehabilitation. He has a passion for helping others reach their full potential from an integrative and holistic perspective and has worked closely with elite athletes and executives on enhancing peak performance through training and regulating psychophysiology. He is the cohost of the Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast and host of Mindhacker's Radio w/ Dr. Jay Wiles. His experience in integrative techniques differs from other psychologists, as he focuses on how we can utilize sunlight, water, exercise, and food to mitigate the damaging effects of stress, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Wiles owns Thrive Wellness and Performance in Greenville, SC, and loves spending time outdoors with his wife and two boys. Website(s): www.thrive-wellness.com www.drjaywiles.com IG: @drjaywiles Show Notes: 00:45 - Intro to Dr. Jay 03:55 - What have been some of the most effective interventions for improving HRV? 07:55 - Unpacking the biochemistry of breathing and Patrick McKeown's "the Oxygen Advantage" 11:00 - Optimize your nervous system by creating a state of "Air Hunger": becoming less sensitive to the effects of CO2 through lite breathing 15:20 - How quickly should people expect to feel progress after they start practicing lite breathing? 22:05 - Who do you recommend this practice for? 25:25 - How does this protocol fit in with HRV biofeedback? 36:30 - Basics before Biohacking 39:20 - What are some other interventions you use? Basics and/or Biohacks 50:25 - Where to find Jay and what he's doing Full transcript at https://elitehrv.com/train-yourself-to-use-oxygen-effectively]0[

In today's solo episode, Dr. Jay T. Wiles will examine a recent research study assessing the accuracy of popular commercial wearable technology for measuring heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV). If you own an Oura Ring, use the PolarH10, or want to know if an iPhone camera can be accurate at detecting HR and HRV, this is a must listen! Do you use EliteHRV or HRV4Training? Check out their accuracy! Let Dr. Wiles break down advanced science on HRV wearables so that you do not have to! 

Joining Andres on the podcast today is Dr. Jay T. Wiles, a Clinical Health Psychologist who is Board Certified in both HRV Biofeedback, and Tai Chi for Rehabilitation. His passion for helping others reach their full potential from an integrative and holistic perspective has led him to work with elite athletes as well as executives from the business world. Dr. Wiles hosts his own podcast, ‘Mindhacker's Radio', offers one-on-one coaching through his integrative and holistic wellness center, ‘Thrive Wellness and Performance', and is overall one of the happiest guys you're ever going to meet. In this episode, Dr. Wiles begins by describing his own health and life journey, and then engages in a discourse regarding all things related to Heart Rate Variability (HRV). Along the way, he touches upon what it can tell us, how to assess it, devices that he recommends, and the most common habits and techniques that he prescribes. He also shares some valuable resources for listeners to explore, runs through a breathwork demonstration, and explains grounding and Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and their effects. Throughout the conversation, Andres shares his own varied experiences with the concepts and products Dr. Wiles presents, and together they share their recommendations for all of us to implement. As you will discover, Dr. Wiles' remarkable passion and enthusiasm for these topics is matched by Andres' as they examine these fundamental biometrics and the benefits that their application can bring to all listeners. As Andres notes, he learned so much from this expert, and it's a guarantee that you will as well. Episode Highlights: ·   Dr. Wiles' ‘why' and what motivates him·   His life journey·   Dr. Wiles' certifications and the evolution of biofeedback·   Heart rate variability (HRV) and what it can tell us·   The different ways to assess HRV·   2 devices that Dr. Wiles recommends·   The most common habits/techniques he prescribes·   The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown, and Breath by James Nestor·   Vagal tone·   The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis)·   Meditation·   A breathwork exercise demonstration·   Self-awareness and self-regulation·   Dr. Wiles' recommendations for freedivers as well as the average person·   Buteyko and Wim Hof breathing·   His daily routine and the non-negotiables within it·   His perspective on Biohacking·   Grounding and its benefits·   Electromagnetic Fields (EMF), how they can affect HRV, and how to mitigate them·   The Body Electric by Robert Becker Show Links: Andres Preschel Instagram Mindhacker's Radio Podcast Dr. Wiles Instagram Thrive Wellness and Performance Oxygen Advantage Breath Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andrespreschel)

If you've been a long-time podcast listener, then you're no doubt familiar with Dr. Jay T. Wiles, my jolly sidekick on the regular Ben Greenfield Fitness Q&A podcast episodes. What you may not know about Dr. Wiles is that he is a true expert in all things heart rate variability (HRV) testing, tracking, and interpretation; and in this podcast episode, he takes a deep dive into how to use HRV to optimize your recovery, performance, sleep, stress, and nervous system. Dr. Wiles is a clinical health psychologist with a passion for helping others reach their full potential from an integrative and holistic perspective. With this strong passion for integrative and holistic care, especially in nutrition and psychophysiology, Dr. Wiles completed his doctor of clinical psychology degree at Regent University with a specialized focus and concentration in health psychology. Dr. Wiles then furthered this specialty in health psychology as a pre-doctoral intern at McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, VA and post-doctoral fellowship at WJB Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, SC. He currently works as a health psychologist for the Department of Veteran Affairs. With specialized training in health behavior coaching, health assessment, nutritional interventions for mental and physical health, motivational interviewing, applied psychophysiology (biofeedback and neurofeedback) and consultation, Dr. Wiles works as a consultant for companies, organizations, practitioners, and individual patients on nutritional psychology, health behavior change, applied psychophysiology, and health promotion/disease prevention via complementary and integrative practices. He is also board certified in biofeedback and heart rate variability biofeedback as well as board-certified in Tai Chi for rehabilitation. Dr. Wiles has worked closely with elite athletes and executives on enhancing peak performance through his online consulting agency, . This consulting agency focuses solely on training and regulating psychophysiology for performance. ​He is passionate about education and consultation with patients and organizations in an effort to increase health outcomes through focusing on prevention and well-being, as opposed to disease and symptom mitigation. During this solosode with Dr. Jay, you'll discover: -Jay's background and a brief overview of "biofeedback"...7:16 Biofeedback: the use of your physiology to enhance self-awareness in order to promote self-regulation Like learning an instrument: perform an action, observe the results, repeat until the desired result has been met HRV is the most fundamental building block of biofeedback -Research on the use of HRV as a metric and HRV Biofeedback...11:43 Wellness, Performance, Recovery, and Mental Well-being Robust research on HRV began only 20-30 years ago HRV is linked to heart attacks, strokes, physical performance Optimized recovery, sleep, homeostasis of nervous system, and much more... Higher stress (real or perceived) resulted in lower HRV scores -Overview of Psychophysiology...18:46 Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System Autonomic Nervous System Parasympathetic Versus the Sympathetic Response Autonomic Balance Baroreflex Response Acetylcholine Response Book: by Robert Sapolsky -What Is Heart Rate Variability...39:55 PPG vs. ECG Metric of resiliency to change Sources of HRV Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) Autonomic Balance -Metrics of Heart Rate Variability...49:19 Defining different domains Time domain SDNN RMSSD HR Max-HR Min or heart rate amplitude Frequency Domain ULF VLF LF/HF Ratio -HRV Norms...1:12:00 Defining Norm-based HRV comparisons High vs. Low HRV Values for all norms found in 21,000 participants Norm vs. Individual baseline comparisons -HRV Training/Regulation...1:23:45 Resonance Frequency Training Effortless, low and slow, diaphragmatic breathing style breathing (Book: ) Use of Wearable technology for biofeedback Pros and Cons Different Devices: Band w/ or App Dr. Wiles’ favorite device: Pitfalls of Wearables Artifact: Ectopic or false beats Many devices do not remove these in their data inclusion Book: -HRV Hacks...1:42:00 : Hot/Cold Contrast showers Cold Plunges/Immersion Cold when sleep (core body temp) Exercise Dietary Considerations Fasting -...1:51:09 -And much more... Resources mentioned in this episode: Book: by Robert Sapolsky Band w/ App (code GREENFIELD for 20% off their first month of subscription or full purchase of the device) Book: by Stephen Porges Episode sponsors: -: The ultimate recovery formula, Kion Flex is a bioavailable blend to support joint comfort, mobility and flexibility, and bone health. Ben Greenfield Fitness listeners, receive a 20% discount off your entire order at when you use discount code: BGF20. -: Grow muscle 3x faster than you can with free weights! The X3 Bar will change the way you train forever. Get a $50 discount off your X3 bar when you use discount code: BEN -: After using the Joovv for close to 2 years, it's the only light therapy device I'd ever recommend. Give it a try: you won't be disappointed. Order using and receive my brand new book, Boundless absolutely free! -: A formulation of 24 unique strains, each of which included at their clinically verified dose, to deliver systemic benefits in the body. 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Greenville, SC based Clinical Health and Nutritional Psychologist Dr. Jay T. Wiles is our special interview guest on Episode 1621 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show. “There is a lot of taboo around the concept of trauma and we define ourselves in light of that past trauma.” – Dr. Jay Wiles Dr. Jay T. Wiles is a Clinical Health and Nutritional Psychologist located in Greenville, SC.  Dr. Wiles has procured experience in the field of health psychology and nutritional psychology via applied research within both a university and VA medical center setting, as well as through teaching, consulting, and providing patient care. With a passion for integrative and holistic care, Dr. Wiles’ goal is to provide education to healthcare professionals on the bidirectional relationship between what we eat and our psychological and cognitive performance. His desire is to increase this knowledge and awareness that it may result in informed and collaborative shared-decision making, as well as improved quality of patient care that further bolsters health promotion and disease prevention. Listen in today as Jimmy talks with Jay about his discoveries over his six-month sabbatical, the role of childhood trauma in our health and wellness, the role trauma plays in how our body responds to stresses, processing past trauma and moving forward, and much more.

Dr. Jay T. Wiles sits down with Dr. Ted Achacoso to discuss all things nootropics, biohacking and health optimization. Dr. Ted discusses the problem with both a conventional and functional medicine approach. You also have the opportunity to learn all about his nootropic company, Troscriptions, and will learn about Dr. Wiles' favorite nootropic, Blue Cannatine!

Strap in, as Mindhacker's Radio is about to go quantum! In this episode, Dr. Jay T. Wiles sits down for an in-depth discussion with Brandon Amalani of Blushield Global to discuss all things EMF mitigation and scalar technology. We dive into topics such as the deleterious effects of EMF on the brain and physiology, 5G communications, whether or not removing EMF is the most advantageous biohack, and all things scalar technology, like use of the Blushield devices for mitigating the effects of EMF. 

Strap in for an exciting interview w/ Dr. Jay T. Wiles and Dr. Paul Saladino, a leading medical authority in all things carnivore! In this discussion you will learn the truth about plants and plant toxicity, why Dr. Saladino believes that plants are only survival food for humans, have we been "fed" a lie about xenohormesis and polyphenols, the anthropological underpinnings and newest discoveries of our carnivore ancestry, and how nose-to-tail carnivore can help improve mood. 

Dr. Jay T. Wiles and Dr. Lew Lim of VieLight sit down for an epic conversation on all things photobiomodulation, specifically for cognition, psychological well-being, and performance. Dr. Lim shares his experience in neuroscience engineering and passion for helping those with cognitive dysfunction, as well as using light therapy for enhancing neurological well-being. Sit back and enjoy this fun-filled conversation about enhancing mitochondrial functioning through biohacking!

On this episode of Mindhacker's Radio w/ Dr. Jay T. Wiles, Dr. Wiles sits down with one of the top leading experts in biofeedback and mindfulness, Dr. Inna Khazan of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Khazan discusses how mindfulness-based biofeedback training in heart rate variability (HRV) and other modalities can be used for peak performance, sports performance, chronic pain, hypertension, and clinical disorders like anxiety. You will also find out how you can utilize these strategies in everyday life! 

Dr. Jay T. Wiles sits down with Matt Maruca, owner of Ra Optics and one of the leading experts in utilizing light for improving mental and physical health, to discuss all things light! In this episode you will hear about practical strategies for increasing well-being through the utilization of Matt Maruca's, "Light Diet Protocol." Other notable topics of discussion include EMF exposure, blue light blocking techniques, power of seafood, earthing/grounding, and much more!

Dr. Jay T. Wiles discusses his top 10 stress hacks in this solosode episode of Mindhacker's Radio. In this episode you will hear about the psychophysiology of stress, ways stress can manifest, and Dr. Wiles' current, top 10 ways to help mitigate stress. He discusses sunlight, EMF protection, nutrition, biofeedback and HRV, meditation, relationships, sleep, and much more!

First ever episode of Mindhacker's Radio w/ Dr. Jay T. Wiles, a podcast intended to provide education and practical knowledge/tips on enhancing psychological, cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being through lifestyle and behavioral changes. Dr. Wiles kicks the podcast off with an overview of his journey and what to expect for the future of this podcast!

Professional triathlete Dr. Jay Wiles is our special interview guest on Episode 1473 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show. Dr. Jay T. Wiles from DrJayWiles.com is a Clinical Health and Nutritional Psychologist located in Greenville, SC. Dr. Wiles has procured experience in the field of health psychology and nutritional psychology via applied research within both a university and VA medical center setting, as well as through teaching, consulting, and providing patient care. With a passion for integrative and holistic care, Dr. Wiles’ goal is to provide education to healthcare professionals on the bidirectional relationship between what we eat and our psychological and cognitive performance. His desire is to increase this knowledge and awareness that it may result in informed and collaborative shared-decision making, as well as improved quality of patient care that further bolsters health promotion and disease prevention. Listen in today as Jimmy and Jay talk about: The role of mental health care in functional medicine The impact of eating habits on neurotransmitters and cognitive functioning The role and impact of the SAD and carbohydrates/sugar intake on psychological well-being The importance of fat for psychological well-being The role lifestyle and eating habits on pain management Dr. Wiles' experience and research working in an integrative pain center at the VA The importance of hacking biology via biofeedback/HRV, photobiomodulation, earthing/grounding, and meditation and much more. "What we're finding is that there is a certain segment of medical professionals that think if they didn't learn about it in med school, or they can't bill insurance for it, then it's not worth their time." – Dr. Jay Wiles