Dr. Katie ToThe Wellness Dentist, CEO and Founder of Center for Wellness Dentistry and Wellness Dentist Institute.

HRV Is the Most Underused Health Tool Most People Already Have

10 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Speaker A shares how a personal realization about the importance of the nervous system sparked a journey toward better health monitoring. Speaker B introduces heart rate variability (HRV) as a largely unknown but powerful metric, emphasizing that HRV scores are highly individualized rather than comparative rankings. They discuss how the proliferation of wearables gives everyone access to HRV data, but most people lack the knowledge to interpret it. The conversation highlights the need to raise awareness, explain what aspects of HRV to monitor, and provide practical guidance on turning raw wearable data into actionable health decisions.

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And when I realized, I was like, oh, I need to start to pay attention to my nervous system and to the health of it. So that's how the journey started.
And I know that most people never heard of HRV. It stands for heart rate variability. And you not only raise awareness about it and tell people like how to evaluate it, but I think that when people thinking, oh, I need to get the better score, I need to get a better score than my friends or my coworker, you bring a really good sense of, hey, this is your number. This is your personalization. This is your information that you You can make the changes in your health. Can you share with us what we need to pay attention to? Because now everyone have wearable, everyone have access to their information and data, but doesn't mean they know what that mean and what they should do for their health.