Stress – portrait of a killer | recovery network: Toronto

  
Excellent PBS documentary on stress and how it operates the same way in individuals in two coparable communities- one wild babboons and te other  Whitehall Civil Servants …

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The film features the work of Dr Robert Sapolsky of  Stanford University and illustrates the complex interplay of biology and environment known as epigenetics.

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  • those at the bottom of the hierarchy experience the greater levels of stress -with subsequent detrimental affects to health.
  • those at the top of the hierarchy experience less stress – they have more choices and control over their environment – and get to dump / off load on those lower in the hierarchy.

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