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Maintaining Healthy HRV as You Age

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Maintaining Healthy HRV as You Age

Heart Rate Recovery: What it is and How to Improve it

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Heart Rate Recovery: What it is and How to Improve it

The rate at which your heart rate returns to normal after exercise can indicate your cardiovascular health and the risk of certain diseases. People with long heart rate recovery times,...

REM Sleep: How Important Is It?

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REM Sleep: How Important Is It?

Sleep can affect many major contributors to our everyday life, health, and mental well-being. Each night we go through a sleep cycle consisting of four stages, REM (Rapid Eye Movement)...

Stages of Sleep: What Happens When You Sleep

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Stages of Sleep: What Happens When You Sleep

You are probably aware of how important sleep is, but did you know that your body transitions through different cycles of sleep as your body rests, and each of these...

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How is HRV Being Used in Sports

If you frequently exercise or train for sports events, you understand the importance of keeping track of heart rate for optimal health. Did you know monitoring your HRV is just...

Food that's high in omega 3

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Omega 3 Health Benefits

Omega-3 fatty acids have been used for many years because of their health benefits. Often referred to as omega-3s, they are a kind of fat found in the human body...

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Sleep Hygiene - How to get a Better Night's Rest

Are you frustrated by waking up and still feeling tired, followed by the next night of tossing and turning? All the while wondering where it all went wrong as you...

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How Does Alcohol Affect HRV?

Heart rate variability (HRV) is useful for monitoring an individual's quality of sleep, recovery, performance, and overall health. HRV is a measure of the variation in time between each beat...

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Decreased HRV - Should You be Worried?

HRV is a non-invasive and simple-to-measure biomarker that measures the time difference between successive heartbeats that can indicate the state of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Maintaining physiological balance and...

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Caffeine and its Effect on Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

Caffeine is a widely consumed psychoactive substance found in a variety of beverages and foods such as coffee, tea, and chocolate. While its effects on alertness and performance are well...

A woman meditating to improve her HRV

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Meditation and Heart Rate Variability

Most people know that meditation benefits the mind, but the benefits extend far beyond the mind to the whole body, including the heart. Meditation may help reduce heart disease risk,...

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How to Track HRV - What You Need to Know

Heart rate variability is a way to measure the variance in time between your heartbeats, and this can be a great way to understand your body’s resilience to stress. You...