All You Need to Know About HRV with Dr. Jay Wiles, Co-Founder & CSO at Hanu Health (Trailer)

Name: All You Need to Know About HRV with Dr. Jay Wiles, Co-Founder & CSO at Hanu Health (Trailer)
Uploaded: 2022-08-03T17:35:17+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this trailer segment, Dr. Jay Wiles explains his perspective that stress is a useful, adaptive response rather than a harmful force. He emphasizes…

3 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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In this trailer segment, Dr. Jay Wiles explains his perspective that stress is a useful, adaptive response rather than a harmful force. He emphasizes that the body reacts similarly to physical exertion and psychological stress, and that the key is to harness stress to drive positive outcomes. He describes his professional background—spending an hour a week in therapy while dedicating the rest of his time to studying—and identifies a market gap: the lack of tools that translate the subjective experience of stress and training into objective, measurable data. This insight led him to create Honu, a product aimed at converting stress into a therapeutic advantage by integrating objective metrics, likely including heart rate variability (HRV), to help users manage and benefit from stress.

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I'm excited to be here, Claudia. Thanks for having me. I always say that stress is your friend. Stress is actually a great thing. When someone is actively engaged in a stress response, that is all about how do we then utilize, how do we then expend energy to help get us out of that situation or adapt to that situation. The body does not know the difference between you running like a marathon and you sitting there being stressed in a meeting. It experiences that exactly the same. The 1 hour that you're with your therapist, very incredibly important and valuable, but all the other hours of your week, all I did was study. And I saw the gap in the market that there wasn't anything out there. It's a fascinating thing where I can take the subjective experience of training and therapeutics and bring the objective nature into it. So for me, it's all about how do I use this stress, not how does this stress use me? And that's key. And it's really why I built Honu.