This content was created by Robert Whitfield MD. This content was uploaded by Robert Whitfield MD. This is a YouTube video titled "Boost Your Heart Rate Variability with Breathing Techniques" featuring Robert Whitfield MD discussing methods to improve heart rate variability through resonance breathing and managing the sympathetic nervous system.
The way to improve. One way to improve HRV is practicing resonance breathing. So think of like, count to four on the inhale through your nose, and count to six on the exhale out through your mouth. And do the practice with belly breathing. So you watch little kids, little babies breathe. They belly breathe. So that allows you to get your full expansion of your diaphragm when you belly breathe versus people suck in their abdomens. That's actually decreasing the space in the chest for the breath. And then ultimately, what you were saying is correct. Over a series of months, you can improve your HRV that way. But it's not as. Just like you said, you're going to wait in C. You have to measure it and keep that consistent, practice up, because that's part of it as well as you have. It sounds like a lot of people suffer from a lot of overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system. So maybe during the day, Cal takes and goes to a quiet place, and for 10, 15 minutes, he's on. On the mat, and he's just, like, shutting stuff out. So he's taking a break to help his, you know, sympathetic nervous system, because that is, you know, part of the issue that he's describing. And that happens. You know, that is a extremely common thing when we see that in our. Our patients.
