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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
Robert M. Sapolsky
4.05 AVERAGE
290 reviews for:
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
Robert M. Sapolsky
4.05 AVERAGE
Great example of research that meets practicality with a sense of sitting alongside the author over hot beverages. ☕️
I would never have guessed Neuroimmunology would be a topic I'd voluntarily read about, never mind enjoy.
This is my second book by Robert Sapolsky, and I couldn't resist getting stuck in after finishing "Behave". Maybe a slightly easier read, less dense and more intuitive material but doesn't sacrifice any of the immense research and thought provoking discussion about subjects we take for granted.
WZDGU (not so catchy) has completely changed how I view the psychological impact of stressors on the body, my favourite quote from the end of the book sums it up for me:
"Perhaps I'm beginning to sound like your grandmother, advising you to be happy and not worry so much. This advice may sound platitudinous, trivial, or both. But change the way even a rat perceives its world, and you dramatically alter the likelihood of it getting a disease. These ideas are no mere truisms. They are powerful, potentially liberating forces to be harnessed."
"In our privileged lives, we are uniquely smart enough to have invented these stressors and uniquely foolish enough to have let them, too often, dominate our lives. Surely we have the potential to be uniquely wise enough to banish their stressful hold."
Awesome stuff, highly recommend
This is my second book by Robert Sapolsky, and I couldn't resist getting stuck in after finishing "Behave". Maybe a slightly easier read, less dense and more intuitive material but doesn't sacrifice any of the immense research and thought provoking discussion about subjects we take for granted.
WZDGU (not so catchy) has completely changed how I view the psychological impact of stressors on the body, my favourite quote from the end of the book sums it up for me:
"Perhaps I'm beginning to sound like your grandmother, advising you to be happy and not worry so much. This advice may sound platitudinous, trivial, or both. But change the way even a rat perceives its world, and you dramatically alter the likelihood of it getting a disease. These ideas are no mere truisms. They are powerful, potentially liberating forces to be harnessed."
"In our privileged lives, we are uniquely smart enough to have invented these stressors and uniquely foolish enough to have let them, too often, dominate our lives. Surely we have the potential to be uniquely wise enough to banish their stressful hold."
Awesome stuff, highly recommend
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Pretty good but decided to bail and return to the library
One of the best books I've read on a biological topic. It gives a thorough understanding of most of the human psyche, health etc.
Unpopular opinion but I didn't care for this book overall. Listened to the audio and it couldn't keep my attention. The Glucocorticoid talk became white noise for stretches. Didn't help that the narrator has a nasally voice. Would have given the book a 3 because it is full of information but taking a star away due to the narrator. It reads like a boring lecture from a professor.
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