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By treating physiological noise as a dynamical recursive realization of independent and identically distributed (IID) Gaussian random variables, we employ an information-theoretic quantifier, the Approximate Entropy, to estimate noise power through a sliding window process. Our method effectively identifies noise levels in synthetic time series with varying dynamical noise powers, demonstrating accuracy even with relatively short window lengths. We further exploit this approach on real cardiovascular variability recordings during different postural changes, namely, stand-up, slow tilt, and fast tilt. The results reveal significant time-resolved variations in physiological noise, functionally linked with changes in autonomic regulation due to postural shifts. 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