Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition
by Robert M. Sapolsky

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition
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Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-15
ISBN: 0805073698
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Book Review: Stop stressing!
Summary: 5 Stars

I read other books by Dr. Sapolsky and loved them all. This particular book, while it does require a bit higher understanding of biology and chemistry (heeeelloooo GOOGLE!!), it still makes for fascinating read. Dr. Sapolsky is a scientist who is writing in a language understandable to read, making science funny and exciting, mysterious and beautiful. In this book you will learn and marvel at complex mechanism that is human body, and how mind/body connections are directly related. It might be a personal preference, depending where you find your guidance, but I find this type of approach best working for me - cold, harsh science. After I had read this book, I have put my gears into "nirvana" mode, and became more conscious about how much stress I allow myself to experience. Might be the case of "SERENITY NOW!!!" - insanity later... but I would still highly recommend this book to anyone fascinated by science, studying, or just interested in chemistry and biology, or on a quest to learn more about how far have we come in understanding our own bodies and mechanisms behind the molecules that form human being.

Summary of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

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.
Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case, that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't designed for the constant stresses of a modern-day life--like sitting in daily traffic jams or growing up in poverty. Rather, they seem more built for the kind of short-term stress faced by a zebra--like outrunning a lion.

With wit, graceful writing, and a sprinkling of Far Side cartoons, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers makes understanding the science of stress an adventure in discovery. "This book is a primer about stress, stress-related disease, and the mechanisms of coping with stress. How is it that our bodies can adapt to some stressful emergencies, while other ones make us sick? Why are some of us especially vulnerable to stress-related diseases, and what does that have to do with our personalities?"

Sapolsky, a Stanford University neuroscientist, explores stress's role in heart disease, diabetes, growth retardation, memory loss, and autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. He cites tantalizing studies of hyenas, baboons, and rodents, as well as of people of different cultures, to vividly make his points. And Sapolsky concludes with a hopeful chapter, titled "Managing Stress." Although he doesn't subscribe to the school of thought that hope cures all disease, Sapolsky highlights the studies that suggest we do have some control over stress-related ailments, based on how we perceive the stress and the kinds of social support we have.

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