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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

By: Robert M. Sapolsky
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress.

As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear—and the ones that plague us now—are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way—through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick.

Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.
 Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Stress Management Mental Health Health Nervous System Witty Medicine Pregnancy Human Brain Nutrition Substance abuse
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Some great points in here. An interesting discussion with a humorous touch. Would have liked more advice for improving your stress level in the end.

Fun read.

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the author's account of the the role of hormones in heredity outside genes and culture is eye opening. At once great relief and sobering prospect.

Thank you. I wish I'd read this sooner. I might have been kinder .. to others and myself.

Life makes a little more sense now

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New information about cancer point of view. Cancer is something we can't control so don't stress about it.
'Best revenge is to live better'!

cancer control

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This book will show you how the stress mechanism works in your body, I should say to some extent.

Very informative however it could be shorter

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Informative but very hard to follow without some science background. Some good nuggets of information but these don’t make up for the other 15 hours of “what the...”

Need a science degree

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