Dr. Jeffrey Gladden demonstrates a five-minute wrist device that measures sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity to reveal hidden stress. Many people feel calm while the test shows elevated stress markers they don't notice, like wearing an invisible backpack for so long you forget it's there.
You can actually, you can also, they have a neuro check that you clip up to people's wrists. It's like a 5-minute measurement with a readout on a laptop that tells you sympathetic, parasympathetic, breaks it down, neurohormonal stress, et cetera. So you can get a real feel of where somebody's starting, right? And what we found is that people are not very reliable at actually knowing where they are. What I mean by that is that people will come in and they're very calm and they appear, my life is great, right? And yet you, when you talk to them and when you do this test, you see that things are not really that right. They're like, they're really, really heavily stressed. Their parasympathetic is really depressed. Sympathetic nervous system is, you know, pegging the meter, so to speak. And yet they say, I don't feel stressed. And yet we know that they are. And so it's a little bit like an analogy that I use for people is that it's kind of like if you've been carrying a backpack your whole life, you don't know that the backpack's on your back anymore.
