{"id":233218,"date":"2026-03-13T03:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/could-an-exercise-pill-fight-depression-scientists-want-to-find-out"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:38:34","slug":"could-an-exercise-pill-fight-depression-scientists-want-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/could-an-exercise-pill-fight-depression-scientists-want-to-find-out","title":{"rendered":"Could an \u201cExercise Pill\u201d Fight Depression? Scientists Want To Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-an-exercise-pill-fight-depression-scientists-want-to-find-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exercise can powerfully influence the brain, but what if the same biological signals could be activated without physical movement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise can powerfully influence the brain, but what if the same biological signals could be activated without physical movement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}