from strandbooks

Once again a very good non-fiction book recommended by my brother. The idea is that humans bodies react to psychological stressors (paying mortgages, dealing with a boss, spousal arguments) the same way zebras bodies react to being chased by a tiger. Our bodies generate the same type of hormones ...

from the_awesome_opossum

This is a scary, scary book, no kidding. Stress is caused by everything and is going to end up killing you!~ Sapolsky has done a ton of research about how stress affects health, and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers is a good break-down for the non-science crowd about how a lot of it works. He does thr...

from CindyHMcReynolds

Excellent! Sapolsky covers the waterfront on stress providing understandable summaries for complex physiological explanations, humorous (lots of cartoons), photo's etc. Get's my A+ for footnotes, notes and references. Must be great to have grad student's help.

from The_Hibernator

In this humorous and informative book, Robert Sapolsky explains how and why stress affects our bodies. The premise is that prey animals like zebras use a stress response in an evolutionary sensible way by upping certain hormones while they are being hunted, but then the zebras' stress levels drop...

from chaosmogony

Brilliant. One of the better popular science books I've read.