Fertility and Stress - Nerve Express Testing through Heart Rate Variability HRV

Fertility and Stress - Nerve Express Testing through Heart Rate Variability HRV

Nerve-Express testing is a fully automatic, non-invasive computer-based system designed for quantitative assessment of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) based on Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis. This test is available in Vancouver through Acubalance.

Stress can negatively impact your fertility. The good news for vancouver couples dealing with infertility is that by lowering the negative effects of stress on your body you can improve your fertility potential. This improvement can be observed through improved egg and sperm quality as well as a more optimal and receptive uterine environment to allow for implantation.  Acubalance now offers testing through the Nerve  Express Instrument. This allows us to measure the levels of physiological stress you are experiencing and also provides you with objective measure how our treatments are affecting your levels of physiological stress.

There are volumes of research documenting how stress has a physiological effect on our body. One of the latest advances in science is measuring the heart rate variability (HRV) to determine the balance of your nervous system. The HRV instrument is used in hospitals, clinics and in research to measure the health of the individual and it is also offers through Acubalance Vancouver as well.  This research is allowing us to understand how chronic long term stress negatively impacts our body through dis-regulation of our autonomic nervous system which impacts our endocrine system (fertility), immune system, nervous system and cardiovascular system:

    •    reduced blood flow to your reproductive system
    •    hormonal imbalances
    •    inflammation from stress accelerates aging and leads to degenerative diseases
    •    can interfere with ovulation and implantation
    •    cause heart disease, insomnia, high blood pressure, skin irritation,
    •    depression and/or agitation
    •    weight gain

The research discusses how negative stress can put your autonomic nervous system out of balance. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) as represented by the parasympathetic system (your ability to relax, repair, digest, eliminate and sleep) and the sympathetic system (for fight or flight). If you can't relax from stress or worry and your system is dominated by fear and tension, your autonomic nervous system is dominated by a suppressed parasympathetic system and overly stimulated sympathetic system. In this situation, you have an increase in overall risk for sudden death despite your physical ability to run a marathon or lift a car; your nervous system is "stressed out" to maximum or "maxed out. Your survival mechanism depresses your reproductive system (fertility) because survival is not a priority)

Click here to watch a video on the Nerve Express HRV Stress test