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Your heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats per minute. Heart rate varies from person to person and depends on age, gender, fitness level, and overall lifestyle, but according ...

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If you’ve ever bolted awake from a nightmare with your heart beating like a frenzied drum, you already know that sleep and rest are not the same. Which is why it should make sense that neither are ...

Do you know your resting heart rate? Go ahead and take your pulse to find out: sit down, relax for 10 minutes, and put your index and middle finger on your opposite wrist. You should be able to push ...