Fish Quote by Robert Sapolsky

“the body is equipped with what Cannon named the stress response, also known as the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism that gets flipped on…

— Lissa Rankin

Thankfully I have good genes and a fast metabolism, which doesn't make me put on weight easily.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is -…

— Robert Sapolsky

We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting…

— Robert Sapolsky

My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a molecular level…

— Robert Sapolsky

“It turns out that our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat into a…

— Dalai Lama XIV

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

— Kelly McGonigal

“I look at it this way: the instinctive response to danger—the stress response—consists of fight, flight, or freeze. These three strategies help us survive…

— Christopher K. Germer

“Significant stress in early childhood,” they write, “. . . result[s] in a hyperresponsive or chronically activated physiologic stress response, along with increased potential…

— J.D. Vance

“Work by Shelley Taylor of UCLA shows that “fight or flight” is the typical response to stress in males, and naturally, the stress literature…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This is the…

— Gabor Maté

“if you’re stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky