If you could view all your heart rate data for a day, a week, a month, what would it show you? Maybe more than you think.
In a recent TED Talk, Kristen Holmes explored her thoughts on how to promote longevity and better performance throughout your life.
Holmes has experience at the University of Iowa, and later at Princeton as a coach, as well as being a national athlete for several years.
She now researches the connection between psychological and physical behaviors, and the work of the human body’s autonomic nervous system, or ANS.
She also suggests that there is a way to use vital sign data to map stress and recovery in ways that help us become more resilient.
Medical examination of Hud ui element.
“Thriving has a lot to do with an individual’s ability to intentionally behave at a level equal to their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual functioning,” says Holmes. By suggesting that performance is a choice, she mentions how doing this research can help us live in a way that promotes better long-term functioning.
If we’re firing on all cylinders, she says, we’re more likely to get a ‘demand match’ with a strong ANS, where our body is able to successfully respond to stressors.
Managing variables such as circadian rhythm and sleep cycles, she says, should improve these metrics.
And then it’s partly a state of mind, too:
“There are some things that will improve our potential for living, our values, with joy and energy, and there are things that will decrease our potential for living, our values for joy and energy, and building things that improve life. ours is really important, isn’t it? And eliminating or minimizing the things that hurt is, I think, a really important thing to keep in your mind.”
Testing for flowering
It’s an interesting idea that Holmes asks people to dig into, but how can you be sure you’re hitting these request match events?
Assuming you can see this from your heart rate changes, as she explains, AI should be able to give you a better window into your body’s responses.
Here are three main ways AI can help:
Data Collection and Insight
Across the healthcare industry and beyond, AI is helping us manage data in ways that make it more digestible for humans.
If your metric is heart rate variability, as suggested, you’ll need to take all that real-time data and put it into a model that can tell you when you’re succeeding, when you are struggling with and how these trends and cycles interact.
This is the foundation of many modern fitness devices, which measure things like heart rate as well as blood oxygen levels, glucose levels and other key indicators of health. And HE has this in the bag!
Go to sleep
Before a big test, you’ll hear people telling you to get a good night’s sleep…
But how does this work and how do you improve your sleep cycles?
The AI will be able to analyze your sleep in depth to see when you are in deep sleep, when you are in light sleep, when you tend to wake up during the night and how long you can sleep on average. It will also estimate environmental variables like the temperature and humidity around you, or your hydration level, for example, based on the detailed data that goes into the model.
guiding
This is the third one, and it’s a big one – AI will be able to tell you what to do, specifically, to improve your performance and longevity.
In some of the other conversations, I’ve heard people talking about using AI as your personal tutor. Sam Altman, for one, has mentioned it in several of his lectures about the promise of AI in the future. It is the idea that AI will act as a personal mentor or guide through your day and night. It will be able to suggest what kind of diet is best for you, when and how you should exercise, when and how you should sleep, and all sorts of other useful data-based recommendations for your day. .
So applying this to your heart rate should be able to get you closer to what Holmes calls “autonomic strength”—among her other recommendations are ice baths, breathing, and various devices for more support. well of the body.
Let’s think about how this kind of idea can be implemented as we move forward with wearable personal devices. All of this is very interesting in the context of what AI can do for us as we try to harness these new technologies for good.