What is the best measurement of metabolic health, resourceful mood and cognitive readiness?
Morning Heart Rate Variability.
How does one measure their HRV score?
iPad or Smart Phone App with Bluetooth cardiac chest monitor and a 2.5 minute morning tracing.
Example?
EliteHRV at the App Store.
What is the score?
It is a number between 0-100 with 74 being the top 10% of healthy and generally young users. Higher is better.
Can one improve their HRV?
Definitely! And one can track both poor lifestyle and better lifestyle choices over time and aging. One can track medical treatments aimed at promoting metabolic health, improving mood or restoring health.
Who should measure their HRV?
Anyone interested in tuning their metabolic heath, slowing aging, improving mood and reducing cognitive decline or dementia. EVERYONE.
Does HRV correlate with BDNF brain derived neurotrophic factor?
There is no direct evidence.
Both move in the same direction with lifestyle choices.
A reasonable assumption is that they are relatively and not directly correlated.
Weight correlates relatively and not directly to body fat as an example.
Disclaimer: Atrial fibrillation and frequent palpitations might skew results due to noise and distort signals of true heart rate variability.
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