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 third edition features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights...

Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. Dr. Elizabeth Stanley explains the significance of this continuum, how it affects our resilience in the face of challenge, and why an event that's stressful...

In twenty-four lectures explains how stress causes or intensifies physical and mental problems.

With a focus on walking for wellness, outlines a practical program for handling life's physical, emotional, and spiritual hard times, using exercise and meditation to link mental focus with physical movement.

"A scientifically proven program to alter the body's physical baseline response to stress-working specifically with heart rate-to fine-tune reflexes and perform at maximum potential"--

"A guide to conquering burnout and increasing your energy from a leading medical doctor and nutrition expert"-- Women of all ages are suffering from an epidemic of fatigue and burnout, but Shah shows that exhaustion doesn't have to be your new normal. The key is tapping into the powerful energy trifecta: the complex relationship between your gut, your immune system, and your hormones. Shah explains how to transform your life by changing what you...

In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators, and sleep trackers.In Good to Go, acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates...

Una nocha, Raina se despierta sintiéndose mal de estómago. Su mamá también se siente mal, así que puede tratarse de un virus. Raina se pone bien y regresa a la escuela, pero cada vez que tiene que enfrentarse a un problema, ya sea que sus amigas le hablen o no o que los chicos de su clase conversen de tamas asquerosos, le vuelve a doler el estómago; y esto sucede cada vez que se preocupa por los estudios, sus amistades o lo que come. ¿Qué...