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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition Paperback – August 26, 2004

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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.

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"Robert M. Sapolsky is one of the best science writers of our time."―Oliver Sacks

For the first edition of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers:

Sapolsky succeeds in interpreting technical material in a way that leaves readers with an understanding of how the same physiological responses, so well suited for dealing with short-term physical emergencies, can turn into potential disasters when chronically provoked for psychological or other reasons....The author has a way with words and images....you'll find plenty to intrigue you. ―The Washington Post

Robert Sapolsky wittily dissects the anatomy of human stress-response. ―The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Robert M. Sapolsky is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museum of Kenya. He is the author of A Primate's Memoir and The Trouble with Testosterone, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. A regular contributor to Discover and The Sciences, and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, he lives in San Francisco.

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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; 3rd edition (September 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805073698
ISBN-13: 978-0805073690
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 331 customer reviews
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June 26, 2016

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I purchased this book for a mental health and stress education course. It was so interesting and the only "textbook" I looked forward to reading. I have recommended this book to people on more than one occasion! Each chapter has a way of describing the complexity of things as well as putting them in very simple terms to better understand. It often refers back to zebras and the safari animal prey/predator relationship hence the title. If you're looking for an interesting and educational read that isn't boring than this is for you. It will have you drawn in wanting to learn more as you go through the different ways that stress affects you mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally.

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Highly educational and very well written. NOT a self help book.

April 6, 2016

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I'm halfway through this book and I love it! I bought this book after watching a 1-hour lecture on depression by Mr Sapolsky at Harvard University and I immidiately fell in love with his style. In this book, Sapolsky has done a wonderful job explaining complicated sceintific matters, experiments and medical terms in very simple and easy to comprehend manner and even managed to throw some humor in there. It's not your typical self help book to teach you techniques on how to overcome stress. Rather it explains how your body performs under strees and is impacted (sometimes permanently) by it. I still find it really helpful in the sense that it shows you how your mental and phisical health is completely dependant on this issue and hence the importance of stress management.

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I wasn't suffering from ulcers, but I did worry too much...

November 29, 2016

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Easy read with plenty of humor. Very applicable to every day life for me. Made me realize that so much of what is wrong is my perspective and attitude.

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Stephen Kellogg

This book is very good on issues related to stress

December 1, 2017

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This book is very good on issues related to stress; my only concern is that it has not been sufficiently updated to down play the relationship with ulcers, which modern scientific theory has shown is more directly caused by bacteria (h. Pylori).

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informative, entertaining, and life-changing

December 11, 2012

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I know that most people consider the correlation between stress and heart disease to be old news, but as Robert Sapolsky carefully explains, it took a lot of painstaking studies to prove this. In fact, the relationships he discusses are still controversial in the cardiovascular medical world. Sapolsky is an excellent writer explains very clearly how the relationships between stress and heart disease were finally solidly proven and also is very careful to note the limits of conclusions we can draw from these. A reader will learn just how important the stress in one's lifestyle is for many aspects of their health, and also, how the ways in which we cope with stress can greatly affect our health.

I found this book to be a great read. I learned a lot about the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, and the immune system. Anyone with "firstworldproblems" should read this book.

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September 18, 2015

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My professor has recommended this author highly for his decades of research on the dangers of stress. This book is entertaining and easy to follow. It is an eye-opener! (For further information on Dr. Sapolsky's research, there is an hour long PBS episode "Stress: Portrait of a Killer" on his studies that is fantastic!)
Anyway, I highly recommend this book to anyone curious about the damage of the body and mind stress can cause. Life changing for me!

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An interesting read for those dealing with constant pain

June 5, 2015

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An in depth read. I suffer from multiple spinal surgeries and deal with constant pain. This provided insight into the biochemical interaction associated with bodily functions. I've got a degree in Biology so was capable of understanding his biochemical overviews. But, he made it easy by relating to actual examples and experiments.

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Joseph Erickson

I know I shouldn't get this excited!

December 21, 2013

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This is where I really get “geeky” or over the top excited! This is a classic – by that I mean this is a text book that is easy to read, filled with information regarding the brain, autonomic system, fight, flight responses, stress, and it all is easy to read, understand and fits nicely with psychopathology courses I have taught over the years to graduate students. Further, this is one of the only books I've read where the footnotes have note, and these notes are so interesting that I need to make an effort to read the book first, re-read the foot notes and notes, and then took notes to use for teaching. Clearly it's not Dr. Sapolsky's first day on the job! Further, while this is an older version, the enclosed material is still applicable today. Excellent book and highly recommended!

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