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Heartrate variability (HRV)

When you breathe in and out your heart rate changes which is called 'heart rate variability' (HRV) or more specifically 'respiratory sinus arrhythmia' (RSA). However, stress & anxiety reduces the heart variability.

Vasso shows you how to de-stress with the help of breathing exercises which in turn should increase the heart rate variability.

  • Heart Rate Variability -- Standards of Measurement, Physiological Interpretation, and Clinical Use.
  • Why should one normalize heart rate variability with respect to average heart rate.
  • An autonomic flexibility-neurovisceral integration model of anxiety and cardiac vagal tone.
  • Cardiac vagal control as a marker of emotion regulation in healthy adults: A review.
  • Heart rate variability, trait anxiety, and perceived stress among physically fit men and women
  • Breathing exercise combined with cognitive behavioural intervention improves sleep quality and heart rate variability in major depression.
  • Reduced heart rate variability and vagal tone in anxiety: Trait versus state, and the effects of autogenic training.

Recorded with our Attys and AttysECG.

Check out the commercial HRV product for Athletes: https://www.hrv4training.com/

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