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"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky

Beckman Institute at Illinois · lecture · Watch on YouTube

Neuroscience & the brainMedicine & infectious diseasePsychology & human behavior

What it is

Robert Sapolsky's lecture on how the body's stress response, evolved for short-term physical emergencies, harms long-term health when triggered by psychological stressors. It was given as the inaugural Fenton-Rhodes Lecture.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining and informative explanation of how stress affects health.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Sapolsky's must-see lecture on stress”

    Must-see Sapolsky lecture on stress

    pantelisk, 2020-11 · Strong recommendation · in “I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop me wasting time”

  2. “Good presentations.”

    Sapolsky's talk on stress and health

    mattdeboard, 2019-02 · Recommendation · in “Practical Facts about the Human Brain”

  3. “Robert Sapolsky provides some great insight into how and why it affects health overall”

    Insight into how stress affects health, entertaining

    Karstographer, 2023-10 · Recommendation · in “You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed”

  4. “Here's a great talk on one of his older books.”

    Great talk on Sapolsky's book about stress

    thenerdhead, 2023-11 · Recommendation

  5. “A perhaps easier to understand explanation of this is this part of a Robert Sapolsky talk on stress”

    Easy explanation of stress interacting with ulcer bacteria

    EdwardCoffin, 2024-08 · Recommendation · in “Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: sapolsky, stress, neuroscience, health, zebras

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