Release Date

18 Nov, 2008

Runtime

00:56: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress: how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. From baboon troops on the plains of Africa, to neuroscience labs at Stanford University, scientists are revealing just how lethal stress can be. Research tells us that the impact of stress can be found deep within us, shrinking our brains, adding fat to our bellies, even unraveling our chromosomes. Understanding how stress works can help us figure out ways to combat it and how to live a life free of the tyranny of this contemporary plague. In Stress: Portrait of a Killer, scientific discoveries in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not just a state of mind, but something measurable and dangerous.

Original Title

Stress: Portrait of a Killer

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Actors

Marcus Lovett

Robert Sapolsky

Michael Marmot

Lisa Sapolsky

Carol Shively

Elizabeth Blackburn

Jeffrey Ritterman

Tessa Roseboom

Elissa Epel

Crew

John Heminway

Randy Bean

William Free

John Heminway

John Heminway

Bob Poole

Christine Jameson-Henry

Erin M. Reuss

Jeremy Zipple

Christine Wambui Kinyanjui

Mark Petersson

Craig Zwolak

Johnny Symons

Lenny Williams