Wearable Technology For Your Health:

Scott Mulvaney welcomes todays guest co-host, Dr. Torkil Færø, a freelance doctor from Norway with 26 years of experience. They discuss the importance of health, lifestyle balance, and technology in disease prevention and management. Dr. Færø emphasizes the role of wearables in monitoring health metrics like heart rate, stress levels, and sleep patterns. He shares his personal journey of losing 40 pounds and improving his health after his father's death. They also touch on the limitations of traditional medical education and the potential of technology to empower individuals to take control of their health. Torkil's book, "The Pulse Cure," has been a success in Norway, focusing on heart rate variability and stress management. Scott and Dr. Færø discuss the benefits of heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring, particularly through wearable technology. Mulvaney shares his interest in using HRV to help his wife, a former on-call doctor, improve her sleep and circadian rhythm. Dr. Faarvaer highlights the application of HRV in veterinary medicine and with handicapped children. They emphasize the importance of personalized health management, noting that HRV data can reveal stress levels and improve self-awareness. Dr. Færø also mentions the feedback from thousands of users on Instagram, supporting the book's findings. They agree on the value of wearable technology in empowering individuals to take control of their health.

Quote: “The doctor of the future will be oneself.” — Albert Schweitzer

Your Co-Host Today:

Dr Torkil Færø is a GP and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, author and photographer. Over a 26-year career as a freelance doctor, he has worked all over Norway, had hundred thousand consultations and thus gained a unique picture of the diseases that plague us. He learned that the cause is most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. When his father died at 73, he realized that he had to change his own lifestyle. Being 40 pounds overweight, under-trained, over-stressed, under-slept and drinking alcohol daily, he learned that this lifestyle could deprive him of decades. Using wearables he found a way to track and regulate his nervous system and physiology. 

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Heart rate tracking, stress, and wearable technologies.
2. Individualized health in regards to personal accountability.
3. The role of HRV tracking and the future of health and technology integrations.

 

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

• https://www.instagram.com/dr.torkil/
• https://thepulsecure.com/
• https://www.amazon.com/Pulse-Cure-Balance-stress-optimise/dp/B0CN1TWVPF/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0

 

Mentioned Influencers:

• https://www.whoop.com/us/en/ 
• https://ouraring.com/
• https://jackkruse.com/

Watch us on YouTube:

• https://youtu.be/kS4X3YNYAFo

 

Timestamped Show Notes:

18:45 – Now we can use the technology on ourselves. That is just a major shift in the power in the healthcare system, where you take the power from the hospitals and the doctors and the different practitioners and you put it into your own hand. You have control with the wearables, with smart watches, with smart rings like Oura. Keeping track of the heart rate, your pattern of movement, the temperatures and your oxygen levels that these can track, and you get the control of your health. 

30:45 – According to Whoop, like the Whoop band on my on my right arm here, they are gathering health information from their users. By far, the worse stresser is alcohol, and that is what I used to drink. I was thinking it was calming me down, helping me to sleep, but the sleep is just terrible under the influence of alcohol.

01:02:00 – I have some of the grounding aka earthing topic in my book that is out now in Norway, called The Rest Cure. Discussing stress, it's about exercise, it's about sleep, it's about active rest, how you can calm yourself down. That seems to be the hardest thing for people. So that is why my publisher wanted a book only on the rest part of The Pulse Cure. That actually became a larger book than The Post Cure on 250 pages exploring how you can rest and what you do with the wearables so you can measure your rest. You may be thinking that you're resting, but the wearable health tech will show that you have either been eating something you cannot tolerate, or you have been stressing so much that your body can't get into the parasympathetic state, even if you think you're relaxing. So that is why it's important to also have this measurable rest that you can see on your watches or rings that your heart rate is in the parasympathetic mode.

01:25:00 – Final Words

 

Our Final Words of the Show:

The message would have to be that you are in more control of your health than maybe you think, and that it is easier to do it with feedback from wearables. I would end with the first words in my book, The Pulse Cure, it's from Albert Schweitzer, the doctor who says, the doctor of the future will be yourself. So now we're kind of already there. We have we can have control, and we can be our own doctors.

 

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