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New Technology - Heart Rate Variability

We now have an awesome new technology known called the Pulse Wave Profiler which measures heart rate variability. What it tells us is:
1. your body's total capacity to respond to stress
2. how out of balance you are in terms of too sympathetic dominant ( fight or flight) or too parasympathetic dominant ( rest and restore)

If a person has a heart rate of 60 beats per minute we would think that means one beat per second but that is not so. In a healthy state of being there will be a certain amount of variable between beats  for example - one beat may be at .9 sec and another at 1.1 sec and still average 60 beats per minute. Within certain boundaries this variability is healthy and indicates a body's ability to respond to stress. If you watch a tennis player they do not stand flat footed to wait to receive a ball- the bouncing back and forth actually increases their ability to respond to the ball that is going to be hit to them. By measuring this bouncing back and forth the computer software can tell us your total capacity for responding to stress and the dominance of the two halves of the nervous system which control heart rate : ie .  sympathetic and parasympathetic.
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