Is HRV the Canary in the Coalmine? | What Your Wearable Data Is Telling You

About this episode

The episode discusses the significance of Heart Rate Variability as an early warning sign for health issues, illustrated by the host's personal experience with a spinal infection.

In this episode, I break down why Heart Rate Variability may be one of the most useful early warning signs available to anyone wearing a modern fitness tracker or smart watch. I share my own recent experience of dealing with a spinal infection, and how my HRV, sleep, stress, and recovery data showed that something was wrong well before the healthcare system fully caught up. This is not a conversation about obsessing over numbers. It is about learning to recognise patterns, respect changes in ...

People in this episode

Host: Shaun Kober

Topics covered

• Heart Rate Variability
• fitness trackers
• health monitoring
• spinal infection
• data patterns
• stress management

Keywords

• HRV
• wearable data
• fitness tracker
• health signs
• sleep
• stress
• recovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: healthcare system

Products: Heart Rate Variability