What didn’t you like about Peter Berkrot’s performance?Įxaggerated emphasis, stagey inflection. How could the performance have been better? 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.

All that makes listening very stressful, which is very ironic considering the content. If you are driving, the quieter words are completely lost in the road noise, and you have to reconstruct them from the context. the narrator's voice rises and falls in volume 5 times per sentence, sometimes in the middle of the word, and as a result some words are too loud and the very next word you have to strain your hearing to understand. I don't know, may be it would be appropriate in some provincial drama theater, but for an audiobook it's completely inappropriate. I love Robert Sapolsky and his research, but the narration of this book. What did you like best about Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers? What did you like least? This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses.

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.

Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick. 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.

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. 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.Īs Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria.

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