The Reader

This book contains everything related to stress - hormones, physiology, illness, aging, psychology, and so on. It is written for the general public but contains comprehensive scientific knowledge including interesting scientific anecdotes and experiments and the author’s witty remarks. Although I was already familiar with most of its contents, I became to get a deeper understanding and organize dispersed knowledge on the stress response through this book. Sometimes, I marvel that much scientific knowledge taken as common sense nowadays are heritages or achievements of great scientists who devoted their lives to uncover the unknowns. In the old days, scientists must have spent more time and energy to prove something like the HPA axis, as they didn’t have current advanced equipment or apparatuses. Quite a large number of such endeavors and scientific experiments are introduced in this book, as the author tried to provide supporting evidence on every his view. In this regard, this book ...