{"id":235970,"date":"2026-04-27T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/how-your-heart-rate-variability-can-offer-an-insight-into-your-mind"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:08:40","slug":"how-your-heart-rate-variability-can-offer-an-insight-into-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/how-your-heart-rate-variability-can-offer-an-insight-into-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-your-heart-rate-variability-can-offer-an-insight-into-your-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smartwatches commonly use heart rate variability to monitor stress. Columnist<strong> Helen Thomson<\/strong> explores what this metric actually tells us, and whether it could also predict and diagnose depression \u2013 and help improve your mental health more generally.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/helen-thomson\/\">Helen Thomson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartwatches commonly use heart rate variability to monitor stress. Columnist Helen Thomson explores what this metric actually tells us, and whether it could also predict and diagnose depression \u2013 and help improve your mental health more generally. By Helen Thomson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235970","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}