Sapolsky 21 books 2, followers. Robert Morris Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. Search review text. Always Pouting. I just really love Robert Sapolsky.
I was familiar with a lot of stuff covered in the book but I still really enjoyed reading through it. Personally feel like he's a very good science communicator and makes things digestible in a way that's accessible for everyone without really losing much of the nuance.
I really don't know what else to write, usually when I write long reviews its because I have a lot of pent up irritation to vent but when I love things I'm just like guys this is good totally would recommend. Also really appreciate him providing context on the limitations of what one can really do to cope with inequity especially when I see so much pop psychology being about just trying to make everyone have grit or whatever.
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But if you get chronically, psycho-socially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick. Robert Sapolsky Bill Sapolsky. A creature built for carnage. Canines bared in atavistic rage. Nostrils flared to pump Cretaceous levels of oxygen into his swollen musculature.
Like a force of nature, Jim. Watch me, Jim. Stay strong, Jim. Would you just look at that parabola, Jen! In addition, research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. Takes up a mic and continues: "The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates. Just look at the dichotomy between what your body does during real stress—for example, something is intent on eating you and you're running for your life—versus what your body does when you're turning on the same stress response for months on end for purely psycho-social reasons.
You mobilize energy in your thigh muscles, you increase your blood pressure and you turn off everything that's not essential to surviving, such as digestion, growth and reproduction.
You think more clearly, and certain aspects of learning and memory are enhanced. All of that is spectacularly adapted if you're dealing with an acute physical stressor—a real one. Any further attempts to waller in viscera will be met with extreme electrification, Jim. If you're chronically shutting down the digestive system, there's a bunch of gastrointestinal disorders you're more at risk for as well. Also, neurons in the parts of the brain relating to learning, memory and judgment don't function as well under stress.
That particular piece is what my lab has spent the last 20 years on. If you plan to get stressed like a normal mammal, you had better turn on the stress response or else you're dead. But if you get chronically, psycho-socially stressed, like a Westernized human, then you are more at risk for heart disease and some of the other leading causes of death in Westernized life. What really matters is that I'm the captain of my softball team or deacon of my church'—that sort of thing.
It's not just somebody sitting here, grooming you with their own hands. We can actually feel comfort from the discovery that somebody on the other side of the planet is going through the same experience we are and feel, I'm not alone. We can even take comfort reading about a fictional character, and there's no primate out there that can feel better in life just by listening to Beethoven.
So the range of supports that we're capable of is extraordinary. Normal people, the people that walk the streets every day, we cannot understand. The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat. With or without the face-paint I am the Ultimate Warrioooooorrrr!!! How must I prepare, you must ask yourself. Should I jump off the tallest building in the world? Should I lay on the lawn and let them run over me with lawn-mowers?
Should I go to Africa and let them trample me with raging elephants? In my final meeting with the gods from the heavens above, they spoke to me and hit me with the power of the Ultimate Warrior.
They told me: action stage left, action stage right. There is no place to run, all the fuses in the exit signs have burnt out. Aaaaarrgghhh, you can feel it dude! You can feel it! Full of the juice that carries the spaceship as far as it wants to go! Because when the moon is blood red the heavens have opened up from above and the Warriors have spoken. In the sheets of the wind, then I will survive.
Load the spaceship with the rocket fuel, load it with the Warriors. Dig your claws into my organs, scratch into my tendons, bury your anchors into my bones, for the power of the Warrior will always prevaaaaaiiiiiilllll.
By now all the little Warriors know that the power of the Ultimate Warrior is something that you want to feel, that you want to taste. Now you must deal with the creation of all the un-pleasantries of the entire universe as I feel the injection from the gods above.
I only know that the Ultimate Warrior is totally out of controoooooooolllll. Come on in where nightmares are the best part of my daaaaaaaayyyyyy. I live for anger and frustration. Combat is where I will be. Twelve chapters on how stress is going to kill you, followed by six chapters on why stress is stressful, when it's not, and what we can do about it.
If you're a worrier, this may not be the book for you. I won't lie, it upset me in the beginning. There are so many ways that stress can affect your health, your memory, the way you age, how you deal with stressors, and even how your children deal with stressors.
The book can become a source of stress itself, one that far outweighs the few methods it gives for dealing with stress. But it addresses a lot of important issues, like the economics of stress and the way poverty and pay inequality have life-long health ramifications. It's not just about stress on a personal level, but a social, cultural, and political one.
It also looks at the role stress plays in mental illness, pain, infertility, and addiction. The science can be quite dense at times, but Sapolsky is good at walking you through it and recalling topics he introduced earlier so you never have to feel like you're studying for something. He makes this easy to read, even if the subject is a difficult one. He's a great writer with a sense of humor, an obvious love of science, and respect for views that aren't his own.
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. Well researched, beautifully written, nicely read out. Few books carry more wisdom per word. Loved every page. Strongly recommended. What did you like least? I love Robert Sapolsky and his research, but the narration of this book I don't know, may be it would be appropriate in some provincial drama theater, but for an audiobook it's completely inappropriate.
If you are driving, the quieter words are completely lost in the road noise, and you have to reconstruct them from the context. All that makes listening very stressful, which is very ironic considering the content. Someone needs to explain to the narrators like this that cheap drama belongs somewhere else, and in an audiobook that is frequently being listened to in places where there's a lot of ambient noise shouting one word and whispering another is not a good idea.
How could the performance have been better? See above regarding the narration. This book was so good I got it in print. The print version has visuals that I missed in the audio version. The book isn't quite as good as his series of lectures- which I highly recommend. The lectures are a bit more personal and interesting.
Also, this narrator's voice was a bit annoying. Sapolsky's own voice is much better. I would suggest you buy the lectures search Sapolsky on audible and get this book in print third edition.
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. Exaggerated emphasis, stagey inflection. Berkot's rollar coaster reading is highly distracting, injects ambiguity as to the meaning of some sentences and ruins the enjoyment of the text. If this book were a movie would you go see it? Not if Peter Berkot were narrating it. I've already purchased a documentary, based on Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, and Sapolsky is a far better better, more engaging interpreter of his work than Berkot.
Any additional comments? Unfortunately, this is a prime example of a wonderful book ruined by a bad reading. I had read this book years ago, love the author, had heard Sapolsk lecture in person, and was really looking forward to what I thought would be a fun review of great material.
Not all are scintillating lecturers, but they have an engaging enthusiasm for the material which sustains the audience, and which no grade C actor or professional reader ever manages to capture. Whether or not the author is "professional" in reading their material aloud, matters less than hearing the author's own intended inflection, emphasis and enthusiasm. A stagey reading by a professional reader, destroys the mood and introduces ambiguity, causing uncertainty as to the author's meaning in some cases.
Robert Sapolsky explains stress is related to the presence of glucocorticoids steroid hormones in the body. Glucocorticoid presence in the body must be just right to be good for humans. Being just right is dependent on the cause of stress, quantity of glucocorticoid hormones, and the effect of glucocorticoid presence in the body. I bought this book in an audible promotion- 3 books with 2 credits.
And I am glad I did it. I loved Robert Sapolsky's style, his extensive research and the way he puts it into words and stories.
I listened to it as a doctor and, wow! The reading is easy, and very entertaining. Great book! No, really, this book was extremely well narrated and very interesting. Makes what could be boring medical stuff fun to listen to. Some of us handle the stressors in our modern lives better than others and the author does give tips in the last chapter on how these people do it. Narration is uneven, loud and then too quiet.
Story is too detailed and not on subject enough. Sapolsky is a brilliant scientist and a literary genius. The author provides a highly detailed and factual account of the stress response in humans. He leaves no stone uncovered all the way from how stress affects memory and physiology such as diabetes heart disease and even cancer, and Anatomy such as decreasing the size of part of the brain related to memory, the hippocampus.
He provides compelling research-based evidence for all of his claims. Well narrated, funny in places with loads of good info. I'll summarise for you; relax, don't sweat the small stuff, make friends, make love, exercised regularly and don't eat crap.
I would recommend this book to anyone! Brilliant book! Accurate, scientific, balanced. Very interesting, educational and insightful! Well read too, the person narrating the book is channeling Sapolsky really well. A great audiobook full facts drawn from interesting studies and delivered in a captivating style. Sapolsky is a fantastic teacher, in this book he gives an excellent map of a stress territory, it explains many aspects of our daily life in how to cope with it.
Brilliant book that covers all the biology behind the human stress response. It's heavy in neuroscience, hormones, etc - so possibly not for the faint hearted. The book was well narrated. I really liked the pdf file with all the diagrams which made some of the terminology a bit clearly, at least for me. Dr Sapolsky is mr. The person which made glucocorticoids part of his life.
That said, the book is amazing regardless of the terminology Is something fresh in the understanding of stress related disease.
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