Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

De: Robert Sapolsky

Narrado por: Peter Berkrot

Duración: 17 h y 16 m

Resumen del Editor

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.

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Ack! Now I'm stressed about how stressed I am!

No, really, this book was extremely well narrated and very interesting. Makes what could be boring medical stuff fun to listen to. Some of us handle the stressors in our modern lives better than others and the author does give tips in the last chapter on how these people do it.

Great information - just too much of it!

This is a very in depth book on stress. You will leave it knowing the precise chemical and neurological responses caused by stress and their impacts on the body. Unfortunately, it was really too much information for me. I would recommend listening to an abridged version.

Excellent read of long, meaty book on stress

CONTENT is very good...just a *lot* of it...maybe a bit too much. The book is 90% "why you don't want stress" followed by 10% "what to do about stress". Lots of medical terms and leaves you amazed at the way our bodies adapt and are brilliantly designed.

NARRATOR is exceptionally good (i.e. great)! Reader delivers jokes with tonal inflection and perfect timing. No mispronunciation. Great voice. Peter Berkrot has done an amazing job here and actually helped me make through the many, many hours!

Keep calm and read this book

This book is a very good discussion on the effect chronic stress has in our modern society, and explains very well the mechanisms behind our bodies and why it makes sense (for our ancestors) for our body to do what it does.

I find this sort of thing fascinating, but I very much recognize that its style is not for everyone. This isn't just a 'top-level here's what you need to know'. This takes some deep dives into chemical mechanisms at times. So it's not just an 'anti-stress self help' book. But if you want to really understand the current science of a huge part of our bodies, and are willing to put in the attention, this is a great book.

Incredible insight to stress and the body.

Any additional comments?

I was assigned this book as a text for one of my college classes. In that class we did not read the entire text, cover to cover, but as odd as it sounds, I enjoyed emmensly the knowledge gained from what we did read. So much so that as the semester commenced, I've read the book through simply in pleasure and self-help. A wonderful book to educate the effects of stress and guide through various methods of coping. The author did an amazing job of keeping the book in basic english that was easy to understand and comprehend.

The Deepak Chopra challenge

Admittedly I WAS looking for more of a DC type book, but surprisingly this book turned into something VERY different.
WHY ZEBRAS GET USLERS's author is obviously far medically smarter than I'm sure I will ever hope to be, but this could be one of the most fascinating books I've ever read! I heave already highly recommended it to a few of my fellow student of l

Great synopsis of the research -

A fabulous review of research in stress, and well told. Humorous. Wish that there were more detail in the suggestions.

As entertaining as it is informative

I enjoyed this book, the content is as informative as the performance is entertaining.

No miracle cures here but rather a holistic approach that explores different items that contribute or exarcibate stress and the consequences. Ultimately it's a journey, most likely a lifetime one but worth it.

Excellent!!!!

I was immersed in this book from the beginning. The depth of knowledge and the fireside format the book presented kept me intrigued all the way to the last page. I strongly recommend this book to those willing and ready to learn about stress and its impact on our body and ways to avoid getting ulcers!!

Why choose a reader so bad?

Couldn't get through the book as the reader was so difficult to listen to. No time to read the hard copy. Author & publisher should better consider the quality of the reader as it colors the whole book's content image.