In this episode, we connect with Robert M. Sapolsky, a neuroendocrinology researcher and professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. In addition to this, he is also the author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will.

Robert has spent much of his time studying a population of wild baboons in Kenya. Through this research, he is focused on uncovering issues related to stress and neuronal degeneration – and understanding various gene therapy strategies for protecting susceptible neurons from disease…

Click play to learn more about:

• What stress does to your brain.
• How social primates manage stress, and what it has to do with their social hierarchy.
• What happens when the dominance hierarchy is stable.
• The difference between being high-ranking and having strong social affiliations.

You can find out more about Robert and his work here!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

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