Hamed Abbaszadegan, MD, MBA
October 13, 2026
“My HRV is low.”
That sentence means almost nothing by itself.
Low compared to what?
Your age group? Your device’s population average? Your training partner? A number you saw online? Your personal baseline? Your 90-day trend?
HRV is one of the most powerful wearable metrics available. It is also one of the easiest to misunderstand. A person with a stable HRV of 35ms may be healthier than someone whose HRV swings from 90ms to 40ms depending on stress, poor sleep, illness, alcohol, or overtraining.
The number is not the insight.
The pattern is the insight.
What matters is your baseline, your variability, your trend direction, and your context. Did HRV drop after intense training? That may be expected. Did it drop after two nights of poor sleep and elevated resting heart rate? That may suggest incomplete recovery. Did it stay suppressed for weeks without a clear explanation? That deserves attention.
The AI MD Rx teaches you how to interpret HRV as a physiological signal, not a scoreboard.
Stop asking whether your HRV is good.
Start asking what changed, why it changed, and what your body is telling you.
Ready to move beyond the score?
Your wearable is collecting data every day, but the real value comes from knowing how to interpret it. Sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, recovery, respiratory rate, and other health metrics are only useful when you understand your personal baseline, recognize meaningful trends, and know what actions make sense.
The AI MD™ helps you turn health data into clearer decisions.
📖 Start with the book:
Get The AI MD Rx: A Prescription for Using Wearables and AI to Optimize Your Vitality Without Getting It Wrong and learn the framework for making sense of your wearable data.
https://www.amazon.com/AI-MD-Rx-Prescription-Wearables/dp/B0H38BTM83
🎥 Go deeper with the Academy:
Enroll in The AI MD™ Academy video series to learn how to apply AI-powered health optimization, interpret key wearable metrics, and build a personalized strategy for sleep, recovery, energy, performance, and long-term vitality.
https://theaimd.ai/academy
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Your data is only the beginning.
The framework is what turns it into action.
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