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Why zebras don’t get ulcers

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Last Updated on Monday, 11 July 2011 21:22 Friday, 27 May 2011 09:51

In this short documentary, Robert Sapolsky, a professor at Stanford University, discusses the origins and functions of stress in our evolutionary past, and reveals just how dangerous prolonged exposure to stress can be in our modern lives. Edited from a slightly longer film from Stanford University: Stress Response: Saviour to Killer.

 

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