How to Improve Your HRV | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Um You mentioned earlier about focus the exact same thing , right ? It's not just about getting better right now , it's about training a system and you can clearly train that right . Um We will often say breathwork is a practice .

How to Improve Your HRV | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

But we know roughly what those are and we know that if you are poor at focusing for every small bit of time that you can focus a little bit longer , even if it's a matter of seconds , those circuits themselves get better at focusing and so on and so forth . So , in other words , is the recovery system , however broad neurotransmitter hormones , neural muscular , immune based , et cetera , can that system or set of systems become better ? Can we get better at recovering .

How to Improve Your HRV | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Can we meaning can it become faster and uh more effective ? Um Can we think of the recovery system as kind of a blade that gets sharper by engaging recovery ? Because if so then there's strong reason for people who are not pushing really hard to push at least a little bit harder than is comfortable for them every once in a while to make sure that that system doesn't start to slide back .

How to Improve Your HRV | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

What I'm saying here is on the , on the face of it I think is obvious , right ? If you don't train hard , there's nothing to recover from . What I'm really saying is , is the ability to recover itself .

How to Improve Your HRV | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

What I'm really saying is , is the ability to recover itself . Something that we need to train . In other words , can we get better at recovering ?