Heart Rate Variability HRV Pt4 2/3 User Manual 4 Humans

the emwave for home use that people can can take home and practice and of course

in our evaluation we use the neuro infinity which can measure and even more

precise but that's more for clinical use that we can evaluate and bring you back

and check this out now we get into the fun stuff and this is some of the

research that that they have done we're looking at two hormones called DHEA and

cortisol and let me just give you a little background on these cortisol is a

stress hormone it's linked to depressed immune system it is linked to weight

gain so basically the body makes cortisol is part of a stress response

and because it inhibits the immune system they give this as a drug called a

corticosteroid two people have chronic inflammation and immune problems and

thereby they depressed in your system and the people get all bloated so that's

basically what cortisol does it's a great tool for the body short-term to

survive a crisis but it's devastating long-term so when we have long-term

stress responses the cortisol is linked to virtually all chronic health disease

that we have DHEA on the other hand is another hormone that's made in the same

place that both of these hormones are made in the adrenal cortex but DHEA is

an antagonist it counteracts the effects of cortisol so as such DHEA has been

linked to a reduction in depression it has been linked to a reduction in

diabetes it has been linked to a reduction in anthro sclerosis and heart

disease and it has linked to an increase in longevity so

sounds like a pretty good thing right it sounds like something we'd be interested

in so here's what they did with a study they took a bunch of people you can go

to the heart math site and look at the details i abbreviated it but essentially

they had people practice a breathing and relaxation and visualization technique

to calm the body down and feel good they did this for a month and they managed

for people to increase the DHEA a good one they doubled their their basic blood

levels of the good hormone so that means that they have a lesser chance of

depression lesser chance of diabetes lesser chance of atherosclerosis and

increased chance of health and longevity sounds like a pretty good big deal to me

and what happened on the other side they also found that in cortisol people also

had a twenty three percent reduction in cortisol so this is pretty profound

they've done nothing else they haven't they haven't changed the diet they

haven't changed their exercise they haven't taken any medication or

supplements they just change how they breathe and how they feel and their

bodies start working differently at the fundamental level at these very very

important markers that determine basically life and death that's big

stuff the immune system anybody care about their immune system that's a

pretty good thing to have right so we know that immune system is inversely

linked to stress so anytime that you have stress your body shuts off the

immune system because it's not important in the moment of stress and this is why

all students around the time of finals and if you've

ever taken a final you know this to be true is it's not in one school sometimes

it's every school every time all across the world finals time students get sick

and it's because they increase their stress levels they sleep less they eat

junk and during new system shuts down so what is what can we we can we look at

here then well we looked at they looked at the immune system as measured by

something called IgA immunoglobulin a and it's one of the primary markers for

immune system function and they took a number of people and they had a thing

for five minutes in one group they had them think about some past and or

something in the past and made them angry they revisited that thought for

five minutes and initially as an imp and an acute stress response it's what we

have here excellent thank you as and that's the red line so they started here

at the baseline and as an acute stress response it increased a little bit and

this is five minutes after but in the following our it dropped down to a

fraction of the previous level and then it stayed low and during the next six

hours it didn't even come up to the baseline level now think about this all

they did was to think of a past event that made them angry they weren't even

in traffic they weren't even getting really mad at someone biggest thought of

a past event and it shut down the renew system for the better part of the day

that's powerful stuff on the other hand they took somebody and they

and think the opposite they had been thinking of some care of some loving of

something that may them feel good they did that for five minutes and they saw a

dramatic increase immediately after during the next hour rather it dropped

down to baseline and then during the next six hours it gradually rose up to

higher ever-increasing levels so essentially health or or a profound

component of health is as simple as taking five minutes a day and choosing

how you feel and if you get angry at something realize and recognize it and

say Allah home I'm not going there I can't afford it my health is more

important than that i'm going to change my thoughts i'm going to do something

and and that's what personal growth and and health is all about we talked before

about you need to eat well move well and think well and this is the think well

part it doesn't happen by itself it's something that takes practice but if you

take the time and practice it you can create some astonishing results one more

study and this had to do with cognitive performance they did a test called

auditory discrimination I dunno exactly how the test was done but they have a

button that they're supposed to press whenever they hear a change or a change

of a character of sound so before the training they tested two groups of

people I think that has 50 something people in the test and it took them

about 350 360 milliseconds on average to press the button to recognize that the

brain was sharp enough to recognize the change in stimulus and press the button

and then they have them practice for I think it was a single single practice

time and then they tested them again and in the experimental group they had the

people practice one of these relaxation techniques from hard math where you

practice your heart rate variability along with practicing a feeling or a

picture in that group the average reaction time went down about ten

percent it went down 37 points on average and if you think about this

their brains were working better they were more they were more on point they

were better focused they had a better ability to discriminate between stimuli

simply because they practiced a few minutes in the other group they have

them just do a relaxation they set them down and said okay now just relax and do

your best to to relax and feel good in that group it made no difference

whatsoever okay

so even though I'm mentioning hard math a whole lot here I want you to know that

there's no more filiation they just have a really good product out that we've

decided to use simply because the benefits that they can have so I don't

know if I'm starting to sound like a commercial here sometimes but it's

really just the the principle of practicing there's many different ways

of doing it but you have to have a feedback method of knowing when you're

doing it right so that's that's the main part of the heart rate variability now

we're just going to expand a little bit