Stress: Portrait of a Killer
2008•G•56m•6.4•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
John Heminway
Writer
John Heminway
Languages
English
Studio
National Geographic
Cast
Marcus Lovett
Narrator
Robert Sapolsky
Himself
Michael Marmot
Himself
Lisa Sapolsky
Herself
Carol Shively
Herself
Elizabeth Blackburn
Herself
Jeffrey Ritterman
Himself
Tessa Roseboom
Herself
Elissa Epel
Herself
Production
Company
National Geographic
Producer
John Heminway
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