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Listen to your heart Smartwatches commonly use heart rate variability to monitor stress. Helen Thomson examines what this metric can reveal about our mental health WITH a Whoop health tracker strapped to my wrist for the past year, I’ve had an unusually detailed window into my biology – sleep, blood oxygen, steps and, most intriguingly, heart rate variability, or HRV. The latter was a new metric for me and has quickly become my go-to measure for stress. It turns out I’m not alone in thinking this metric is valuable. A growing body of research has been investigating HRV’s link with mental health. But first, what actually is it? …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第270卷 第3594期 · 2026年5月9日,Helen Thomson。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。