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Stress, HRV
and recovery

your body, read every morning from your wearable

Your body keeps a record of the day before the spin: the HRV that dropped, the stress that stayed high, the recovery that never came. VertigoMe collects those numbers every morning from a connected wearable, Apple Health or Health Connect, and tests each one against your spins.

why your body?

Among 530 people with vestibular migraine, anxiety scores and a history of motion sickness came out as independent factors behind poor sleep.

Pan et al., J Vestib Res 2026

What is collected

HRV, resting heart rate, recovery, strain, stress index, steps, time in high heart rate zones, respiratory rate, SpO2, skin temperature, weight, body fat, blood pressure and blood glucose, whichever your source provides. Garmin, Oura and Polar connect directly; Apple Watch, Fitbit, Samsung and most other devices come in through Apple Health or Health Connect.

Stress, two ways

If your source is Garmin or Oura, the stress number is the one your device computed. Otherwise VertigoMe computes a 0 to 100 stress index at 9 in the morning from your HRV and resting heart rate against your own two-week baseline, which needs both of those enabled. There is no manual stress score; a stressful moment is logged as a Stress event or Anxiety spike trigger instead.

Which of it fires as a trigger

Stress high and low, recovery high and low, steps high and low, and time in high heart rate zones low are automatic triggers. Each has a fixed threshold and a two-standard-deviation check against your 14-day baseline, evaluated hourly. Set the severity you believe in and let the statistics tell you whether the data agrees.

Where it lives in the app

Monitor and then Physical Health: today's numbers at the top, the metric list underneath with recovery, HRV, resting heart rate, strain, SpO2, skin temperature, respiratory rate, high heart rate zones and steps, and your spins laid over the history.

What it needs from you

A connected source for the body numbers. Garmin, Oura and Polar connect directly in Settings and Connections; Apple Watch and anything writing to Apple Health or Health Connect arrives that way. The app reads HRV and resting heart rate, it does not measure them. History is partial when you connect: Health Connect brings the last 14 days, Apple Health syncs from today forward, and Garmin, Oura and Polar backfill roughly the last month.

Questions

Which wearables work?

Garmin, Oura and Polar connect directly in Settings and Connections. Apple Watch and anything else that writes to Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android comes in from there.

How much history comes across?

Not all of it. Health Connect brings the last 14 days, Apple Health syncs from today forward, and Garmin, Oura and Polar backfill roughly the last month, which is what their services keep.

Is HRV measured by the app itself?

No. HRV and resting heart rate come from your connected source. The app reads them, it does not measure them.

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