Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print 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.

A distinguished primatologist explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including ulcers, colitis, heart disease, depression, and memory loss, and addresses how to combat it. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Preface1. Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers?2. Glands, Gooseflesh, and Hormones3. Stroke, Heart Attacks, and Voodoo Death4. Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets5. Ulcers, the Runs, and Hot Fudge Sundaes6. Dwarfism and the Importance of Mothers7. Sex and Reproduction8. Immunity, Stress, and Disease9. Stress and Pain10. Stress and Memory11. Stress and a Good Night's Sleep12. Aging and Death13. Why is Psychological Stress Stressful?14. Stress and Depression15. Personality, Temperament, and Their Stress-Related Consequences16. Junkies, Adrenaline Junkies, and Pleasure17. the View from the Bottom18. Managing StressNotesIndex