Your Heart Should Rest Twice as Long as It Works
Heart Sound Recorder monitoring in Longview, TX — a look at how your heart is doing its job.
YOUR heart shows it first.The nutritional efficiency of your heart impacts every organ in your body.
The Heart Sound Recorder is a low-risk general wellness monitor. A specialized microphone listens over each of the four valve areas of your heart and draws what it hears as a graph. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out, and it takes a few quiet minutes.
Three Things the Graph Shows
Rate
How fast your heart beats, which your nervous system controls. One side speeds it up for fight or flight, the other slows it down to rest and digest. A healthy body balances the two.
Rhythm
The ratio of work to rest. Your heart should be resting twice as long as it’s working. The graph shows whether it’s working too hard — or not hard enough.
Tone
The strength behind each beat. The height and width of the “lub dub” shows how efficiently your heart pushes blood out and refills for the next cycle.
Chemical, nutritional and emotional stress all leave their mark on that graph. That’s what makes it useful.
You can’t feel how hard your heart is working.
The graph can show you.
What It’s Good For
Two things, mostly. The first is a picture of where you are right now — a baseline that adds another angle to everything else Dr. Pearce is looking at.
The second is progress. Once you’ve made changes to your stress, your diet, your lifestyle or your nutrition, a second graph shows whether those changes reached your heart. That is a hard thing to measure any other way.
How to Get Ready
A few things make for a clean reading:
- Tell us when you book. You can schedule it on its own, or add it to another visit — either way, we need to know ahead so the schedule leaves room for it.
- Come well hydrated.
- Dress so you can get down to one thin layer. A sports bra works well for women.
- No food or caffeine for two hours beforehand. The sounds of digestion will mask your heart.
- Give yourself a relaxed window around the appointment. Arriving rushed shows up on the graph.
A few quiet minutes. A lot of information.
Where It Fits
The Heart Sound Recorder is rarely the whole story on its own. It works alongside Nutrition Response Testing, a bloodwork evaluation, and your Designed Clinical Nutrition program — each one showing a different angle on the same body.
Curious What Your Heart Is Doing?
Book it on its own, or add it to another visit. Either way, tell us ahead so we can leave time for it.
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Office: 903-757-3785
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Priority Wellness Care — 123 Gilmer Rd #3, Longview, TX 75604
The Heart Sound Recorder is a low-risk general wellness monitor. As with any wellness device, lifestyle changes suggested by what it shows should be undertaken with the guidance of a licensed physician, therapist or holistic healthcare practitioner. Its findings support — and do not replace — the therapies and recommendations of your medical professional. Results vary from person to person.
The care we provide is an adjunct to your primary care — we all work together for whole person care.