Torkil Faero explains why heart rate variability matters: it's linked to cancer, heart disease, dementia, and Alzheimer's, and smartwatches can track it continuously. HRV acts as a speedometer for your physiology, letting you catch problems before they show up in a doctor's office.
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you can Google almost any disease, you know, like cancer, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, all of the diseases that, that prevents us from living to 100. Mm-hmm. You can Google that and add heart rate variability and you, you will find lots of research. Yeah. Because this is a metric that is easy to get in, in research because of the availability of ECG monitors and the smartwatches and so on. So it's, it's an incredibly important metric. And the most, the best part of it is that you have it on your wrist yourself. So it's like a speedometer of your own physiology and you have the speedometer on your wrist, you know. So it's not like in the, in the healthcare system, you know, the, the strategy is waiting until we get sick and then the doctor has all the results and, and you are in the hands of the doctor.