The Resilient Engine with Dr. Jay Wiles

Nervous system care has become a buzzword and most of what is circulating about it is wrong. Dr. Jay Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist who has spent his career measuring physiology in high performers, and this first episode is his case against the noise.

The core argument: almost every technique being sold right now produces state change, not trait change. State change is real and useful. It is what gets you back down after someone cuts you off in traffic. But it is transient, and there is little evidence that repeating it changes the underlying system. Trait change is the adaptation that lasts, and it is different training.

Also in this episode: why stress is inherently good rather than something to eliminate, what the baroreflex actually does, where the evidence for the popular techniques runs out, and a technique that costs nothing and lets you feel your own vagal brake working in real time.

Chapters

00:00 Why this show exists

01:53 The money being spent on nervous system technology

02:40 There is no magic elixir

03:17 Ohm, and why Jay uses it

06:05 I might be wrong, and here is my take anyway

07:10 State change is not trait change

10:00 What psychophysiology actually studies

10:58 Stress is inherently good

13:17 The baroreflex, and why stability is the point

18:06 Where the evidence runs out

24:06 A free technique, using your carotid pulse

25:51 Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and finding your rate

30:02 Where to go next

More at https://theresilientengine.com/media/episode-one/

DISCLOSURE

Ohm, discussed at 03:17, is my own company. I built it, which is exactly why I talk about it here. Nobody paid for that segment.