Book description
Learn the science behind stress and start living better
Stress can kill. Chronic stress has been linked to depression,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, and high blood
pressure. Left untreated it can cause serious and long-lasting health
problems. Drawing on two decades of clinical research into the effects
of stress on the brain and the body, For the Love of Stress is
designed to help you learn to control your stress and live a happier,
healthier life.
Dr. Sonia Lupien is internationally respected as a leading authority
on the science of stress, and in this practical, accessible book she
provides an essential guide to understanding and managing the stresses
we face every day. Identifying the four factors that underlie any
stressful situation: Novelty-something new and unfamiliar;
Unpredictability-not knowing how something is going to unfold;
Threat-to your sense of self; and a poor Sense of self control, Dr.
Lupien uses the appropriate acronym "N. U.T. S." to explore
how stress makes us feel and how we can learn to cope.
- Helps the reader understand the science behind stress, how it
affects us physically and mentally, and what we can do to keep it
in check
- Explores why men make women's stress hormone levels rise but
women cause men's stress hormone levels to drop
- Provides proven solutions for dealing with stress, including one
for helping children to cope with moving schools as well as stress
in the workplace
- Contrary to common belief stress is not simply "time
pressure" or "workload" but rather our natural
response to these things, characterized by the release of stress hormones
- Shows readers how a routine blood test can identify if you are
at risk from high levels of stress hormones
In her practical and accessible book Dr. Lupien shows how stress can
and should be controlled, not avoided.
About the Author
Dr. Sonia Lupien is the founder and director of the Centre for
Studies on Human Stress (www. humanstress. ca). She has a PhD in
neuroscience from the Université de Montréal and completed
postdoctoral studies at UC-San Diego and Rockefeller University of New
York. She is now a full professor in the department of psychiatry in
the faculty of medicine at the Université du Québec à Montréal. In
2002, she received Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award, and in 2003 Dr.
Lupien was voted one of the Top 10 Canadians Who Make a Difference by
Maclean's magazine.
