Herbert Benson: Mind-Body Maverick Pushes the Envelope

摘要

In 1972, leading cardiovascular researcher Lewis K. Dahl of Qrookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island gave a prestigious lecture to members of the High Blood Pressure Council, gathered that year in Cleveland, on the causes of hypertension. Dahl had bred a strain of laboratory rats, called S, whose blood pressure soared fatally high if they ate too much sa the rats also seemed susceptible to several other suspected .causes of hypertension-But there was one factor, Dahl said, that could be ruled out: psychological stress. He had harried S rats with random electric shocks, a classic stressor, and found no rise in blood pressure.