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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 25.8 x 231.6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 289 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #258 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling

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ByPaigeon 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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Easy read and great to understand links between stress, social factors and health

ByTipy&Lizzyon August 28, 2016

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Very interesting book depicting the link between stress and physiological responses / diseases. The author use humor and personal experiences throughout the book. This is an easy read and interesting concepts are discussed throughout the book. Highly recommended for any future healthcare provider to help understand links between social factors and how stress transmitted through previous generations can affect the health of the future generation.

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An enjoyable treasure

ByOdysseus at homeon November 28, 2014

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This book is about stress. I bought it and read it because I am a stressful guy. I wanted to know if stress was in fact that powerful representative in the congress of our bodies and therefore a moderator of our lives. After reading "Why zebras..." I know it is and I know also that it has to do with sicknesses and different states of mind. It has to do with everything involved with our perceptions, either internal or external. To let you know about all that stuff and its intermingled and complex wire clutter, Professor Sapolsky gives a comprehensive account distributed on eighteen chapters and a big corpus of notes. Everyone of them relates the stress with pain, memory, aging and death, cancer, and so on. In some cases there is a clear relationship while in some others the link is not so clear: the author is always there to let you know the difference. A caveat: this is not a self help book and I didn't buy it by mistake. I knew it was a serious work at the very extreme of a life dedicated to study this phenomenon with rats, baboons, several monkeys, and ourselves of course.

To finish, the last two chapters were very impressive to me. To jump from the individual to the society in chapter seventeen and then go back in chapter eighteen to our daily experience was an extraordinary closure to a superb work. As a moral I would say that not everything is good news here but this is how it works... What can we do? The rest is noise (not silence).

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Such a way with words

ByMatton April 27, 2017

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Dr. Robert Sapolsky is an amazing individual. After watching his documentary I was intrigued to buy his book. As you read it you can hear his voice with his enthusiasm dripping from each page. The man is a nerdy comic who has some great humor throughout the book. Strongly recommend for anyone who doesn't understand stress response and cortisol release. Overall a wonderfully intriguing book!

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Funny, detailed

ByMargot Ton February 4, 2017

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Funny, detailed, so smart and insightful. I'm referring to the footnotes. Footnotes! I learned a ton from this book and I refer back to it. Make sure you get to Ch. 18 - the uplifting chapter of what to do about stress - in you life and in the lives of your yet to be born grandchildren...

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

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

BySaharon 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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informative, entertaining, and life-changing

Bylafaloton 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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