Why zebras don't get ulcers

Why zebras don't get ulcers

Robert M. Sapolsky

Book - 2004

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 third edition 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.

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Subjects
Stress (Physiology)
Stress (Psychology)
Stress management.
Published
New York : St. Martin's Griffin c2004.
Language
English
Main Author
Robert M. Sapolsky (-)
Edition
3rd ed
Physical Description
xv, 539 : ill. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780805073690
  • Preface
  • 1. Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers?
  • 2. Glands, Gooseflesh, and Hormones
  • 3. Stroke, Heart Attacks, and Voodoo Death
  • 4. Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets
  • 5. Ulcers, the Runs, and Hot Fudge Sundaes
  • 6. Dwarfism and the Importance of Mothers
  • 7. Sex and Reproduction
  • 8. Immunity, Stress, and Disease
  • 9. Stress and Pain
  • 10. Stress and Memory
  • 11. Stress and a Good Night's Sleep
  • 12. Aging and Death
  • 13. Why Is Psychological Stress Stressful?
  • 14. Stress and Depression
  • 15. Personality, Temperament, and Their Stress-Related Consequences
  • 16. Junkies, Adrenaline Junkies, and Pleasure
  • 17. The View from the Bottom
  • 18. Managing Stress
  • Notes
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

From Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers : Regardless of how poorly we are getting along with a family member or how incensed we are about losing a parking spot, we rarely settle that sort of thing with a fistfight. Likewise, it is a rare event when we have to stalk and personally wrestle down our dinner. Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads. How many hippos worry about whether Social Security is going to last as long as they will, or even what they are going to say on a first date? Viewed from the perspective of the evolution of the human kingdom, psychological stress is a recent invention. If someone has just signed the order to hire a hated rival after months of plotting and maneuvering, her physiological responses might be shockingly similar to those of a savanna baboon who has just lunged and slashed the face of a competitor. And if someone spends months on end twisting his innards in anxiety, anger, and tension over some emotional problem, this might very well lead to illness. Excerpted from Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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