{"id":241590,"date":"2026-07-26T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-heart-has-a-little-brain-protects-against-stress"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:06:55","slug":"the-heart-has-a-little-brain-protects-against-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-heart-has-a-little-brain-protects-against-stress","title":{"rendered":"The heart has a \u2018little brain\u2019 protects against stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-heart-has-a-little-brain-protects-against-stress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We often think of the brain in our head as the sole commander of our body, but your heart actually has its own mini nervous system embedded directly within its tissues \u2014 often referred to by neuroscientists as the heart\u2019s \u201clittle brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How the Heart\u2019s \u201cLittle Brain\u201d Works.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A subset of cardiac neurons keep the heart from malfunctioning in stressed mice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think of the brain in our head as the sole commander of our body, but your heart actually has its own mini nervous system embedded directly within its tissues \u2014 often referred to by neuroscientists as the heart\u2019s \u201clittle brain.\u201d How the Heart\u2019s \u201cLittle Brain\u201d Works. A subset of cardiac neurons keep the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241590","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}