Stress Response: Savior to Killer

As we've evolved, the human stress response has saved our lives. Today, we turn on the same life-saving physical reaction to cope with intense, ongoing stressors - and we can't seem to turn it off. Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, reveals just how dangerous prolonged exposure to stress can be in the documentary, "Stress: Portrait of a Killer."
Stress: Portrait of a Killer Website:
killerstress.st...
Stanford University:
www.stanford.edu/
Stanford University Channel on KZbin:
/ stanford

[@BolasDaGrk]

I love this man... Logic is a godly gift.

[@SuperMatiks]

Thank you Coursera.

[@fuggles]

I'm your fan Doctor Sapolsky

[@Lihinel]

Nice introduction on why one should have a personal interest in trying to understand the mechanics of his own brain at least a bit. Thx for the upload.

[@andyrooney12]

I'm happy for you. I'll be honest, stress is not something that I think about but I obsessively watch educational programming online anywhere I can find it and I cover every subject matter possible so that's how I ended up here. I doubt I'll be researching this more but you seem to be into it. I normally don't give out the info but if you still didn't watch it and you would like a link to the website that I use to watch these videos then send me a private message & I'll give it to you.

[@ginad5052]

Thank you Coursera. Very enlightening video, once again.

[@MacSmiley]

I just watched this entire program on PBS on Wednesday night. It is absolutely outstanding. Stanford, you should put every minute of this program online for free viewing... as a public service.

[@andyrooney12]

Well, it's been 3 years & you got 43 thumbs up...I hope you found it. I found it...it's on another site but oh well, I know it. It's a great episode. At first I was looking for the same title as in the KZbin video here but then I realized at the end of the video that it's part of the National Geographic series so that made it super easy to find.

[@xxxpaixavous]

Often feeling the result of stress in my heart rate, blood pressure, sleeplessness...I never imagined we humans provoke the same stress levels in our daily lives that a mammal releases in a moment of potential life survival.

[@WildDivine]

Very interesting video, takes a very direct look at stress. Must be a fascinating course.

[@afrhiI]

Great video! "The stress response becomes more stressful than the stress itself!"

[@jlfirmin]

Thanks also to Coursera that make me discovering this video (Inspiring Leadership). Ressources on Stress: Portrait of a Killer Website: killerstress.stanford.edu/ also very helpful.

[@vickarasu]

Thank you! That was very helpful indeed.

[@OrchestralOrg]

*there is a problem if he, or anyone, thinks this stressed filled, terror filled, endangered, threatened, threatening, tragedy filled, trauma filled, mega massive world should allow for the human being to exist in peace.*

[@CelestialGushi]

Thanks you Cousera! Very interesting.

[@manthasagittarius1]

I don't think it's nurturing that gets you higher ranking, somehow. It's competitiveness, and to a good extent it is driven by stress. Nurturing would tend to suppress any aggressive tendencies, since everything is supplied, Mentoring is something else again -- but mentoring is not a guarantee. Your mentor can drop you if you don't pan out -- nurturing is much closer to unconditional mom love, and I suspect that doesn't promote independent growth past a fairly young age.

[@bwarden85]

Fuck...Now i'm stressed about being stressed!

[@NoPrivateProperty]

having so much hair would be stressful for me. clean cut and shave would do wonders for his disposition. but of course, he is not free to chose his style

[@MondoBeno]

I saw a study on why prisoners can get lean and muscular on a shitty diet. It's because prisoners have none of the testosterone-destroying stress. They don't have any responsibility; no rent, child support, deadlines, taxes, commutes, bills, etc. They live/eat/exercise on a strict schedule, set by the warden. The only stress they have is for survival. Humans have lots of responsibilities to prioritize, and that leads to stress, and that leads to low testosterone. If you wake, move, eat, work out, study, and sleep on a schedule, you have less stress. I gues discipline is the key to good health.

[@PaganCount]

i wish my university was like stanford :(

[@joaquinvila-belda9344]

The question is knowing how to manage stress, no stress is not the correct answer.

[@alampribadi6578]

run like a zebra

[@jeffsdolphin]

the smartest man ever..........the dude of research

[@soniccage]

He's not a weirdo ?

[@sarastar60]

Hey don't stress out, soon there will be a stress vaccine. TIC

[@Fascistbeast]

Watch the whole documentary I recommend it Apple movies a good investment 👍

[@josecarlosgarciaflorido8043]

Very interesting. I recommend full documentary. Thanks coursera.

[@nathphil1968]

Thank you Coursera. (Inspired Leadership)

[@UiPathHacks]

thx Coursera ! :) so true ...

[@IvanCalmona]

I'm currently reading "a primate's memoir". Sapolsky is also an amazing storyteller.

[@podfunk]

Sapolsky's a superb lecturer. I'd heartily recommend his Teaching Company lectures on 'Biology and Human Behaviour' to anyone who enjoyed this clip. Fascinating.

[@SammyxSweetheart.02]

1:27 2:51 3:44

[@LuizCarlosSantanaFrancelino]

Each of us as human being participates and is active in the development and increased bad stress. We allow and when there is voluntary or not permission stress becomes a harmful weapon to our body, our family, our work and we become bad people, not bad for indole coexistence and experiences. Thank you Coursera. (Inspired Leadership)

[@justsaying15]

He has a wonderful expanded version of this in the Great Courses. I learned so much.

[@markkiefer3243]

"Complex *"BRAIN SCIENCE"* " As a neuroscience student this offended me.

[@SHAenima]

Very interesting. This makes me want to study human pyschology.

[@nightowl2be]

I woke up with this on and I caught the last 15 minutes of it. It was very fascinating, especially since I got a degree in psychology and my mom is one of those mothers with a disabled child, my brother. I was wondering when it would be on again?

[@Roleren]

It can be found on Topdocumentaries(DOT)com

[@antdude]

A typewriter outdoor? :D

[@ChuckyJesus666]

That too, but my own personal experience with cardiologists this past year is that they haven't heard of this.

[@peegeebeedee4052]

Social Anxiety Has A Strong Genetic Component And It Can Be Brought About And Further Exacerbated By A Psychologically And Physically Abusive, Male Dominant, Hierachical Household. If You're Innately Inclined To Be Introverted And You're Physically And Mentally Beaten Down On A Consistent Basis You'll Tend To Exhibit Certain Anxiety Disorders.

[@ChuckyJesus666]

I wish they could put the whole documentary online. Also the medical community needs to catch up with these findings.

[@Cyfix15]

aaah i understand stress a little better now. would like to know more details though.

[@luvadoodles]

What a great Documentary. It is streaming on Netfilx if anyone has not seen the full episode. I'm definitely interested in reading some of his books.

[@Going2MakeItSo]

WE ALL ONE: INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEX-PTSD - Is Your Home? School? Workplace? Government? Infrastructure, Health & Safety Services? Town? County? State? Country? Suffering from it? Are you sure? Institutions in affected regions and communities have evolved specialized business structures and bureaucratic methods as well as ways of administering law and justice - look for "in-between, buffer" organizations for example, between oversight structures and the Institutional-CPTSD exhibiting organizations and groups that fear and are desirous of going around governmental or moral law, thinking they must. Examples abound in said communities, for example - SRO's - School Resource Officers. Yup, I said it; If it walks like and quacks like a duck, I'm just say'in... Institutional CPTSD is the diagnosis, animals we are not, act on this we must, look into Sapolsky at Stanford and his baboon troop, and Institutionalized Complex Post-Traumatic Spectrum Disorder, OK? WE ALL ONE, ARE WE! b 1

[@1mommymodel]

A storm woke me up at 3am, switched on the TV and this PBS program got me hooked until 4am. This professor rocks, so thankful people like him exsist. Amazing show I couldn't stop talking about it the next day, now here I am looking it up :)

[@HeatherNormandale]

another good reason to use community acupuncture!! once a week ;)

[@FranciscoKGuerreiro]

Sapolsky is the best..thanks for your effort in understanding our human behavior..

[@Chilldogg]

Great video. We love the animals of the Mara!!!

[@psychobollox]

LoL evidently you cannot think in the abstract, can you?

[@verohndutah4738]

Thank you Cousera wonderful information and loved that the video was shot in my country Kenya.

[@kell4479]

Great Video _- thanks for sending me here Coursera!

[@ruinedatmosphere]

smoking weed all day long sounds like the solution.

[@l.zachero2856]

For a moment I thought it was going to start a South Park chapter

[@eliasgharbi3835]

very insightful! thanks for the sharing Coursera ;-)

[@faraghazali7787]

Coursera brought me here..:)

[@jeffsdolphin]

soldier in combat for the 1st time...

[@COOLDUDE090]

effective natural stress solution

[@hupper12345]

this guy is really inspirig.

[@theeartofseduction]

Amazing!

[@kayohara1514]

Thank you, Coursera.

[@Mohd.AmerAli]

Credits: Coursera. :)

[@JayashriV]

wow! nice video. thanks. :D

[@DavidIanHopkins]

thanks , good to be reminded.

[@RoutestoFlourish]

Coursera brought me here :-)

[@torosalvajebcn]

What bout nail growth?

[@craigcooley9518]

coursera brought me here

[@nourish0]

You're running for your life, this is no time to be ovulating.