Is It Worth Dying For?

by Robert S. Eliot

Is It Worth Dying For? is the most important examination of stress and its effects on health and disease in years. In this groundbreaking book, cardiologist Dr. Robert S. Eliot identifies "hot reactors"-apparently healthy people who overreact dangerously to such common occurrences as losing a tennis game or missing a train. If you are a "hot reactor," you can be responding to stress with an all-out physical effort that is taking a heavy toll on your health...without your even being aware of it. Based on more than twenty years of research with thousands of patients, Is It Worth Dying For? takes stress management out of pop psychology and puts it into mainstream medicine. Dr. Eliot identifies the ways which stress affects the heart, the blood vessels, and the body and gives us new, objective ways of detecting stress before any damage is done. He offers a complete program for recognizing, reducing, and reversing the hidden effects of stress in your life-to make stress work for you, not against you.

Genres: Health

Hardcover

First published April 1, 1984

Reviews

[Bibliovoracious · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though it’s from 1984, I learned a bunch of (alarming) things about stress and heart health.

[Candice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful book that I read years ago and it changed my life. Re-read it again and am going to pass it on to other friends.

[Larry Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

Therapeutic advice

Dr Eliot provided the information I needed to resume my life after a close call with my heart. I'm grateful for his testimony and his prescription.

[Melody Alumno · Rating 4 out of 5]

i was so excited to read it

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Content still holds up in 2025, very good read, very informative.

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Eliot teaches the reader how to make stress work for you and not against you. He really helps you to understand stress and what it creates in the body, and then teaches you how to manage it. Very informative book!

[Beckey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informational book about stress, how to guide.

[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Analyze your stress and see if it is working for you or killing you.