Season 1
24 episodes
31 min. per episode
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A brilliant scientist battles his own stress while unraveling its hidden truths, revealing surprising connections between mind, body, and resilience.
Episodes
In Professor Sapolsky's introductory lecture, get a behind-the-scenes look at the science of stress and preview the groundwork for the course ahead.
Every time you have a thought or emotion, things change in your body. Here, explore the two factors responsible for these changes: the nervous system and hormones.
Armed with the necessary background information, explore how specific organ systems suffer when faced with chronic stress.
The next organ system you focus on: the metabolic system. Discover how cycles of chronic stress lead to a persistent activating and storing of energy, which in turn can lead to an inefficient use of energy and play a critical role in the prevalence of adult-onset diabetes.
Focus now on the role stress plays in our gastrointestinal tracts. Why do most of us eat more during stressful periods? How does stress affect bowel disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and spastic colons? And how does stress combine with a bacterial infection to produce a common stress-related disease: ulcers?
Feeling stressed? You're not alone. Stress is a fact of life. And the key to changing how stress affects you is a thorough knowledge of how it works--which you'll find in the 24 fascinating episodes of Stress and Your Body. Delivered by Stanford University Professor Robert Sapolsky, one of the world's foremost researchers on stress and neurobiology, this course explores the nuts and bolts of the stress response system and its biological and psychological impact on your everyday health. Why do some people adapt to stress more easily than others? How does stress affect your immune system? Why does stress prompt you to sleep more (or less)? With this dynamic course, you'll finally get answers to these and a host of other intriguing questions.