Robert Sapolsky on Stress and Health

Beckman Institute at Illinois · Lecture · YouTube title: "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky

Why it's here

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

What it covers

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.