GoBe3: What Is the Difference Between Neuroactivity and Stress?

Stress and Neuroactivity are two different GoBe3 metrics. They use different data and provide different insights into your body’s state.

Stress

The Stress metric estimates your physiological stress level - the strain on your body rather than your emotional state directly.

The algorithm takes into account your heart rate, sleep data from the previous night, and individual parameters.

For example, your Stress level may increase after insufficient or poor-quality sleep or when your heart rate is elevated during physical activity. Emotional experiences can also affect the metric indirectly if they cause a physiological response, such as an increase in heart rate or changes in sleep.

Tracking Stress can help you understand how much physiological strain your body experiences throughout the day and identify periods when additional rest and recovery may be helpful.

Neuroactivity

Neuroactivity reflects changes in autonomic nervous system activity.

GoBe3 estimates Neuroactivity using GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) technology. The GSR sensor measures changes in the electrical resistance of your skin 10 times per second. HEALBE algorithms analyze these measurements to estimate your current state and generate Neuroactivity data in the HEALBE app.

For example, Neuroactivity may increase during situations that require greater nervous system activation, such as public speaking, and decrease during periods of relaxation or meditation.

What Is the Main Difference?

Stress and Neuroactivity describe different aspects of your body’s response:

• Stress estimates the overall physiological strain on your body based on factors including heart rate and previous night’s sleep.

• Neuroactivity reflects changes in autonomic nervous system activity detected through GSR measurements.

Looking at both metrics can provide a more complete picture of how your body responds to activity, recovery, emotional experiences, and other events throughout the day.

Neither metric directly measures your emotions or determines the exact cause of a change in your body’s state.