Now in a third edition, Robert M.
This new Edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet..
It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses.
Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humour 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.
Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick.
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.
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.
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria.
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.
Now in a third edition, Robert M
