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How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind

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 – and help improve your mental health more generally

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USA. Arizona. 1988. Pom Pom girls of Sun City West retirement community, the youngest of which is sixty years old. Part of the

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Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go

Culture

Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal

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Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal

Regulars

Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?

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Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?

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Can you determine your personalised stress score?

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Can you determine your personalised stress score?

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Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain

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Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain

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How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

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How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

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The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

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The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

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Our verdict on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt: An inspiring call to action

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Our verdict on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt: An inspiring call to action

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Astronaut running during sunset at a remote planet

Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and it’s not all about hitting the gym more

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Health

A negative attitude towards ageing is making you age faster

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Professor Daisy Fancourt on the life-changing power of the arts

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Technology

Social media is a defective product

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Health

Why are we so obsessed with protein? A new book looks for answers

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