Use Breathing to Be More Resilient to Stress and Raise HRV

About This Episode

Dr. Jay Wiles explains how to use breathing to become more resilient to stress and raise HRV. Covers stress resilience, microtraumas, hormetic stress, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, the vagus nerve, and how diet and fasting affect HRV.

Key Takeaways

• HRV is the best non-invasive proxy for measuring stress response
• Heart rate decreases when you exhale due to vagal activation
• Why a decrease in HRV is not always bad
• Oura ring and WHOOP measure HRV differently
• Never compare your HRV to other people - only to yourself
• Cardiovascular fitness directly improves HRV

Topics Covered