Most of us think stress is just about our busy schedules. But what if your body is stressed and you don’t even know it?

In this episode of Medical Disruptors, Dr. E sits down with Dr. Torkil Færø—Norwegian physician, where he explains how HRV reveals the hidden state of your autonomic nervous system—the balance between “fight or flight” and “rest and digest.” 

And once you can measure it, you can finally manage it.

This means you could be walking around in constant sympathetic nervous system activation without realizing it—until it manifests as fertility issues, autoimmune flares, insomnia, or metabolic dysfunction. 

Heart rate variability measures the variation between heartbeats, revealing whether your autonomic nervous system is in rest-and-digest mode or fight-or-flight mode at any given moment. The data exposes hidden stressors conventional medicine never tests for.

We explore why tracking reveals that sunlight can double your heart rate variability while Covid infections and PMS create equally dramatic dips, why the Garmin watch provides real-time stress level readings that other wearables don't offer, and how food intolerances show up in your heart rate before they manifest as skin reactions or digestive issues. 

If conventional lab tests keep coming back normal but you still feel terrible, this episode reveals the diagnostic tool that measures what blood work can't detect—and why doctors were never trained to look for it.

This episode of Medical Disruptors will change how you see your body, your stress, and your future. Watch now and subscribe for more disruptive conversations.

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