Video: Harnessing the Organic Acids Test and Heart Rate Variability

Recording from FDN's Health Detective livestream

In this episode, I take questions from Detective Ev on how I use the Organic Acids Test and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to predict health outcomes and understand the body's responses. We discuss why context is crucial for HRV measurements and understand that what might seem like 'bad' reactions are often just transitions in your body's stress response systems.

We touch on how to ‘predict the future’ through the combination of these tests (and a suitable case history), why its vital to contextualize HRV measurements and what can be done to take care of these ‘bad' reactions.

Further reading:

In this episode, we discuss the transition from a state of parasympathetic stress into sympathetic, aka ‘mobilization’; I have written on this in more depth here.

We also touch on how coming down from a long-term fight-and-flight-type stress response can be a bumpy ride; a previous article here covers this in more detail.

Further learning:

If you are a health professional eager to integrate a battle-tested model of personalised nutrition or an enthusiast/researcher/biohacker interested in translating key principles to the frontline, then take a look at my Academy Courses. The next two-day course is on January 10-11th (in London and on Zoom). This module is Personalised Medicine x Functional Nutrition and will cover the Organic Acids Test, Heart Rate Variability testing and other key tools used to ‘predict the future’ and select the right interventions for each individual.

The cost is £525 and comes with the Academy guarantee (if, after an entire day of learning, you do not agree that this is the best-researched and most practical course in Functional Nutrition, I will give you all your money back. No questions asked). Details here.

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