Stress and Your Body
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Narrated by:
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Robert Sapolsky
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Written by:
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Robert Sapolsky
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The Great Courses
About this listen
Feeling stressed?
You're not alone. Stress is an inherent aspect of life that can have tremendous negative effects on your mental and physical health. This makes coping with stress a critical part of how well we live.
Once you understand the inner workings of your stress response system, you'll possess powerful knowledge that will help you understand and better deal with this common aspect of your busy life. Now, from one of the world's foremost researchers on stress and neurobiology, comes a fascinating series of 24 lectures that guide you through the psychological and psychosocial stress that is a central part of everyday life in Western society.
You'll learn how the stress-response system is actually a natural survival system-giving, for example, a zebra the best chance to escape from a pursuing lion - that can change from a safety mechanism into a real problem for our physical and mental well-being. You'll see it coming into play against situations it wasn't designed to combat, such as traffic, troublesome thoughts and memories, and concerns over the economy, environment, and international events. And you'll gain valuable insights into how and why stress can affect every part of your body-including your cardiovascular, digestive, and immune systems - and learn about its relationship to important disorders and behaviors, like depression, anxiety, and even addiction.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2010 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2010 The Great CoursesWhat listeners say about Stress and Your Body
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- Hayden barker
- 2019-02-15
interesting insights !
great presentation, nice sense of humor and a very interesting look at how stress affects our bodies.
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- Tom
- 2018-11-12
good info, an little repititious
good info but a lot of reputation. You do get a sense of the importance of stress in health
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- Gilway
- 2021-11-22
A no stress listen
Knowledgeable, engaging, humorous telling of how stress affects the body and mind. Brilliant audiobook/ course that I listened to in two days. Sapolski is just the perfect presenter of what might otherwise be some pretty dry material. Loved it!
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- H.C Vancouver
- 2023-12-06
This is excellent
Sapolsky is such a great lecturer. I think everyone should listen to this. So informative and compassionate, with a touch of comedy. Excellent!
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- Jeff T
- 2021-11-19
worth careful study
I reviewed this book halfway thru, loved it. Still do, but the conclusion was unexpected: it's hard and complicated to improve your lot. I happened to be interested in how our body functions, and bought this thinking it would be peripheral. But you learn a lot by looking at complex interactions. Overall excellent presentation, I would suggest giving conclusions upfront rather than after objectively deriving them - just so we know where the author is heading. Conclusion then... let's see why. I'll listen a few times to this one, loved it!
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- Barry M
- 2022-10-18
great listen
Great listen and very educational. Entertaining and easy to follow without a lot of jargon.
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- Corrie
- 2023-11-28
Interesting and entertaining
Very in-depth information about stress through multiple facets yet easy to understand in presentation. A great teacher and obviously an expert in this field.
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- Stephane
- 2021-02-13
Too stressful of a lecture
slow delivery is stressful. 1.25 speed minimum. good info. complex subject hard to go over superficially. lacks some in dept exploration
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4 people found this helpful