Accessibility links

How Stress Affects Your Health Can stress make you sick? From depression, insomnia and addiction, to cancer, heart disease and stroke, stress plays a crucial role in a host of physical ailments.
NPR logo

How Stress Affects Your Health

Listen
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/3911637/3911638" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
How Stress Affects Your Health

How Stress Affects Your Health

How Stress Affects Your Health

Listen
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/3911637/3911638" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Heard on Talk of the Nation

Can stress make you sick? From depression, insomnia and addiction, to cancer, heart disease and stroke, stress plays a crucial role in a host of physical ailments.

Guest:

Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and A Primate's Memoir