Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

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

By: Robert Sapolsky

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

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.

©2004 Robert M. Sapolsky (P)2012 Tantor

Should have gotten the abridged version.

Narrator's voice was a bit grating, and most of the content was like a research paper until the end. Nevertheless, the overall message and leanings were good.

spectacular! a must read for all primates and cetaceans. this is a thorough and entertaining review of the biology of stress. this book helps me understand and accept my neuroticism, and doesn't help to grow out of it. which I probably wouldn't want anyway. Sapolsky is a brilliant scientist and a literary genius. this is an incredibly enjoyable book even for none-biologists

Good listen!

Enjoyed the information --Especially about protective factors against stress -- backed by research studies. Very interesting!

Narator got way too quite

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The book itself was good. But the narator had a tendancy to get really quiet. I found it frurstrating. I couldn't hear some words.

A lot of technical info but very helpful advice.

This book will help you understand stress and manage it better. The last chapter is a great summary.