Arterial Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity: Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity is the gold standard of aortic stiffness testing and has been proven to be a marker of heart health, brain health, and risk of death from all causes that is reversible.
Resting Heart Rate: Your resting heart rate says a lot about your internal health and fitness levels. It is a strong indicator of your risk for heart problems. Track and decrease your resting heart rate.
Internal Age: Your Internal Age™ is calculated based on aortic stiffness, a proven indicator of risk of heart and brain disease that is reversible. Changes can be seen in as little as a couple weeks.
Blood Oxygen Level: Blood oxygen level indicates how much oxygen is in your blood. Blood oxygen level should be between 95-99% in a healthy individual.
The iHeart Story
iHeart was initially developed to fulfill a promise our President, Dr. Jess Goodman made to his Tai Chi teacher, a Taoist monk. While he was terminally ill, the monk asked Dr. Goodman to do him a favor - to show people the health benefits associated with stretching the part of their bodies in-between the heart and the kidneys. In order to fulfill his promise, Dr. Goodman began his research, to find that stiffness of the Aorta predicted risk of death from many proven causes. Factors such as stress, lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet lead to stiffness of the Aorta and that the Aorta acts as a measure of stiffness along the spinal axis and as a measure of core mobility. The relationship between Aortic Stiffness and the risk of death from these causes, demonstrated the truth in Dr. Goodman’s Tai Chi teachers intent. Thus, iHeart was created as a tool to help people measure Internal Age and Aortic Stiffness and therefore realize the personal power they have to change their health and wellness. It was developed to give people an ability to monitor their bodies, encouraging behavior to feel well, avoid illness and live long lives.
Improve your iHeart Internal Age readings. Test regularly to see what kinds of lifestyle choices can lower arterial stiffness and your Internal Age.
