James LaughlinHigh-performance leadership and executive coach. Covering all aspects of life and career.

One of the best investments I've made for my health is...

6 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by James Laughlin discussing the Oura Ring as a health investment. In this chunk the speaker explains that the ring contains sensors that measure heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV). The speaker describes HRV as variability in interbeat intervals and explains that lower HRV (a more metronomic heart) is associated with higher stress/adrenaline; the device is used to assess recovery and systemic stress.

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The Oura ring. What's it for? You know, why might people enjoy getting one of these? Yeah, so I also don't get a kickback from them. So it's a. Literally a ring for people who can't see what James was just holding up. And what it does is it has a series of sensors in it that can measure your heart rate, your heart rate variability, which is when your heart's beating, it's not a perfect metronome, it's not a perfect pattern. So even if it's not slowing up or speeding down, your heart rate has different. You know, if there's three beats, the time between beat one and two and two and three is different. And how different that variability is in the interbeat intervals actually tells us a lot, because it's proportional to, or inversely, I should say, inversely proportional. Meaning if you have more adrenaline or stress in the system, your heart's more regular. It's more like a metronome or a drum. And so we can start to say, hey, how recovered is your body? How much stress is there in the system?