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Stress and Disease
Stressed? Between the frantic last-minute holiday shopping and psyching yourself up for that holiday pilgrimage back home, your heart's probably racing and your adrenaline levels are through the roof. But is that necessarily bad? In this hour, we'll look at the relationship between stress and disease.
Guests:
Robert Sapolsky
Author, "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers"
Professor of Biological Sciences and
Neuroscience
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Michael Meaney
Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
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