| View Larger Image | National Geographic: Stress - Portrait of a Killer | DVDDirected By: John Heminway
Also With: David Klagsbrun (Editor)
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 52 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | Nat'l Geographic Vid | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | November 18, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 11,661th |
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FEATURES | - In Stress: Portrait of a Killer, scientific discoveries in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not a state of mind, but something measurable and dangerous. Over the last three decades, Stanford university neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky, has been advancing our understanding of stress how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. Understanding
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 50 minutes Rating: Nr |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 11 reviews)
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Stressed by an inflexible DVD! by Arthur Dailey  3 Stars
October 24, 2009
Although I like this DVD, I would never get this DVD again, as it doesn't seem to let me select different parts to watch at any one time! It keeps telling me that that is forbidden. I have to watch it from the beginning and then restart the next time either at where I left off the last time or at the beginning. However, there are times when I simply want to review one section in particular. Such inflexibility in a DVD -- up with which I will not put!
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Not bad but need more details on human behavior by Sanjay Jaiswar (Redwood CIty, CA USA) 3 Stars
October 01, 2009
I hope during the 30 years period of research, he would have simultaneously studied human behavior & their effects. We are already aware that the stress is the root cause of most of human problems. The study should give what are the internal reactions in human body & how to overcome those. They didn't mention about Adrenaline at all, produced by the adrenal glands playing an important role in short-term stress reaction.
But it's a good material to know more about stress.
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Makes a Great Point, but with a Caviat... by Technical Book Buff (Philadelphia, PA)  4 Stars
September 25, 2009
The part that relates to real science, like the study of baboons, is excellent. The main thesis of this documentary is well taken, that chronic stress harms all creatures. However, I have real issues with the parts where they use anecdotal evidence of their theories on human organizational hierarchies.
The hierarchical societies of baboons are fundamentally different from our workplaces. For one thing, for baboon this permeates through their whole existence, while for most working people their jobs, well,is only their jobs. The DVD shows a British civil servant who whines about a stressful situation at work, and the assertion is that his superiors do not share this type of stress. Not so!
My own experience as an engineer who has been in the workforce for 30 years is totally opposite of the assertions in this documentary. The hierarchy of my typical workplace, which is typical, is like this: A few technicians work for an engineer, who in turn reports to a middle manager, who reports to a vice president who reports to the CEO.
In my experience, the technicians are the least stressed (the movie asserts that he is the most stressed like the subservient baboons). Even our CEO, which in this movie is likened to the dominant baboon, has to answer to the Board and the stock holders.
The typical technician appears at work in his tee shirt and jeans, punch the clock in and out, and if there is any overtime, he gets paid one and a half time his normal pay (the rest of the characters in this story work overtime with no pay.) He may take some c**p from the superiors occasionally, but he is generally not all that stressed in a typical work day. He spends his leisure time hunting and fishing and has a grand time doing that. He is a scoutmaster in his son's Boy Scout troop (gets his hierarchical jollies there.) If his health does not turn out as good as the rest, it would not be because of the stress of being at the bottom of the hierarchy. It would be because his typical lunch is a Philly cheese steak with a large order of fries (and he smokes too); while the rest of the characters in our story have their lean turkey sandwich on rye with a salad.
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brilliant by Eric Ratliff (Los Angeles CA)  5 Stars
June 12, 2009
Statistical and anecdotal evidence are convincingly presented to show the importance of stress to health and happiness. The information presented was so important to me that I reduced my work hours after watching this video.
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Stress - Portrait of a Killer by Millie R. (Idaho) 5 Stars
June 03, 2009
Excellent video. Robert Sapolsky must be a genius but he also has a good sense of humor and is very interesting.
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