The title for this post may sound like a platitude; but this book really deserves it. If you feel that you have read the entire stress related book you can, then this book may come as a surprise. The book is targeted towards the intelligent lay person.
Mr. Sapolsky has done a wonderful job of distilling ideas of stress, stress related diseases, effects of stress on memory, depression and more in this charmingly written book.
The book is not about how to manage stress. A single chapter has been comfortably tucked away at the end of the book in that matter. Foremost, the book is about how the stress response affects your body. How the various stress related diseases raise their ugly heads in a person.
Most of the books in the market (in thousands) deal with how to reduce or cope with stress. But if you want to know in excruciating detail how exactly stress effects your body, the mechanism behind cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, memory impairment, sexual dysfunction, depression etc. then reading this gem of a book will be an enlightening experience.
The notes at the end of the book are in themselves interesting to read.
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