This past weekend, April and I presented at the Geneseo Health & Wellness Expo — and one thing was abundantly clear: people are stressed. We set up a Heart Rate Variability (HRV) station at our booth, and the readings told a story. Person after person stepped up, and the numbers confirmed what I see in the clinic every day: our nervous systems are working overtime. What we saw at the Expo Healthy Heart Rate Variability What Exactly Is HRV? Heart Rate Variability measures the

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