Dr. Torkil Færø: What is Heart Rate Variability and Why it Matters? How HRV is the Most Important Marker for Our Health State. Why Wearables Are Effective to Monitor HRV and Therefore Our Wellbeing.

Dr Torkil Færø is a GP and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker,author and photographer. Over a 26-year career as a freelance doctor, he hasworked all over Norway, had hundred thousand consultations and thus gaineda unique picture of the diseases that plague us. He learned that the causeis most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. Whenhis father died at 73, he realized that he had to change his own lifestyle. Being40 pounds overweight, under-trained, over-stressed, under-slept and drinking alcohol daily, he learned that this life- style could deprive him of decades.Using wearables he found a way to track and regulate his nervous system andphysiology. Færø is an award-winning photographer, author of The CameraCure, and has made TV films about his pilgrimages to Nidaros and Santiago deCompostela. An inveterate traveller, he has visited over 80 countries, and speaks eight languages. He lives in Norway.THE PULSE CURE has dominated the Norwegian best-sellers lists for 69 weeks and counting. This is the first and only book that teaches how to use wearables to trackheart rate variability and gives a practical and holistic plan to improve overall health. The Pulse Cure is translated into seven languages.Instagram: @doc_torkilSupport the show