Health audiobooks

A Cancer in the Family

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee & Theodora Ross

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer

There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing... Read more

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution

By: Richard K. Bernstein

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This modern manual for diabetes management shares useful tips and tricks for creating a structured treatment plan that works for you and your health.

Originally published in 1997, DR. BERNSTEIN'S DIABETES SOLUTION is a unique resource that covers both adult- and childhood-onset diabetes, explains step-by-step how to normalize blood sugar levels... Read more

The Mindspan Diet

By: Preston Estep

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From an esteemed geneticist and the director of gerontology at the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School comes a revolutionary plan for curbing memory loss and improving cognitive longevity that will forever change how you think about diet and aging.All around the world people are living longer than ever, but record numbers of us are... Read more

Mind Over Meds

By: Andrew Weil

Narrated by: Andrew Weil

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives.

Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50 years, and over-the-counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us... Read more

Yoga for Beginners

By: Sue Fuller

Narrated by: Sue Fuller

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

These audio yoga classes will teach you basic yoga postures that are suitable for beginners. They will strengthen the body, increase flexibility, reduce stress, and allow you to enjoy the many benefits of yoga at a time and place that is most suitable for you. Yoga for Beginners contains three different easy-to-follow audio yoga classes devised... Read more

Yoga for Improvers

By: Sue Fuller

Narrated by: Sue Fuller

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Devised specifically to move beginners to the next level, Yoga for Improvers by Sue Fuller consists of three easy-to-follow audio yoga classes. Once you are familiar with all three classes, rotate them regularly to maintain variety and establish a sound technique.These audio yoga classes each run for approximately sixty minutes. They include... Read more

At Home With Madame Chic

By: Jennifer L. Scott

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

When she arrived at Madame Chic's Parisian apartment as a foreign exchange student, she took Jennifer under her wing and tutored her in the secrets of how the French elevate the little things in life to the art of living.



Years later, Jennifer was back in California with a husband, two young daughters, a dog, and her first home. She began to... Read more

The Science of Skinny

By: Dee McCaffrey, CDC

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With scientific research, her own chemistry background, and the traditional diets of our not-so-distant ancestors as her guide, Dee McCaffrey casts new light on an age-old wisdom: Eating foods in their closest-to-natural form is the true path to sustained weight loss and, in fact, the remedy for almost any health problem.




We are so far removed... Read more

The Burn

By: Haylie Pomroy

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Using targeted micronutrients to incinerate weight-loss roadblocks, nutritionist Haylie Pomroy will help you remove the problem—and lose up to 3, 5, and 10 pounds in as many days!




The Burn offers three eating plans, therapeutically designed to achieve highly specific results. The I-Burn targets the body’s inflammatory reactions to food and... Read more

Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight

By: Peter Walsh

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A houseful of clutter may not be the only reason people pack on extra pounds, but research proves that it plays a big role. A recent study showed that people with supercluttered homes were 77 percent more likely to be overweight or obese!




In Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight, organizing guru Peter Walsh comes to the rescue with a simple 6-week... Read more

The Coconut Oil Miracle

By: Bruce Fife, CN, ND

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, The Coconut Oil Miracle has been a reliable guide for men and women alike. Now in its fifth edition, this revised and updated version has even more information on the benefits of coconut oil and shows listeners how to use it for maximum effect. Coconut oil is much more than just a fad. It is a uniquely curative elixir that has been... Read more

The Adrenal Reset Diet

By: Alan Christianson, NMD

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are people gaining weight faster than ever before? According to Alan Christianson, NMD, our bodies are under attack from all directions—an overabundance of processed food, a polluted world, and the pressures of daily life all take their toll. These attacks hit a little known but very important set of glands, the adrenals, particularly hard.... Read more

The Diabetes Solution

By: Jorge E. Rodriguez, MD & Susan Wyler, RDN

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Diabetes Solution, Dr. Jorge Rodriguez and dietitian nutritionist Susan Wyler tell you everything you need to know about this increasingly common disease—from diagnosis to treatment—including the difference between prediabetes and diabetes, ways to prevent serious complications, and the most effective medications and when to start taking... Read more

The Magnesium Miracle

By: Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Magnesium is an essential nutrient, indispensable to your health and well-being. By adding this mineral to your diet, you are guarding against—and helping to alleviate—such threats as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But despite magnesium's numerous benefits, many Americans remain dangerously... Read more

Thinspired

By: Mara Schiavocampo

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Like so many people, Mara Schiavocampo had struggled with weight for most of her life. She tried every diet on the planet, suffered a debilitating eating disorder, joined a bizarre food cult, took dangerous pills, worked out for insane amounts of time—and still tipped the scales at nearly 230 pounds. But more than reaching a healthy weight, Mara... Read more

Seal Survival Guide

By: Cade Courtley

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Navy SEAL and preeminent American survivalist Cade Courtley delivers step-by-step instructions anyone can master in this user-friendly guide. You'll learn to think like a SEAL and how to:




—Improvise weapons from everyday items




—Pack a go bag




—Treat injuries




—Survive extreme climates




—Survive a pandemic




From random shootings to deadly wildfires... Read more

The Pain Antidote

By: Mel Pohl, M.D. & Katherine Ketcham

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Approximately 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain—and many of them use prescribed painkillers to treat it, a dangerous course that may lead to dependency, addiction, and, paradoxically, increased pain. Opioid overdoses kill more people than car accidents and cocaine and heroin addictions combined.


The innovative program at the... Read more

Wheels of Life

By: Anodea Judith, PhD

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, the chakras offer unparalleled opportunities for growth, healing, and transformation. Anodea Judith's classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 200,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing,... Read more

Over-the-Counter Natural Cures

By: Shane Ellison, MS

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are under attack. Obesity, lethargy, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are ghastly epidemics. Worse, most drugs can make you even more sick! Why is this happening? Because no one tells you the truth: Millions of dollars are made by keeping this forbidden knowledge from you. Not anymore!



Shane Ellison—known as the People's Chemist by... Read more

Belly Fat Breakthrough

By: Dr. Stephen Boutcher

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

We are all aware of the ways in which today's modern lifestyle takes a toll on our health—not enough time means fast food trumps nutritious meals and the couch wins over the treadmill. But did you know that just twenty minutes three days per week is all the time you need to burn away belly fat and get your health back on track? The trick: It has... Read more

The Wahls Protocol

By: Eve Adamson & Terry Wahls, MD

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls focused on treating her patients' ailments with drugs or surgical procedures—until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000. Within three years, her back and stomach muscles had weakened to the point where she needed a tilt-recline wheelchair. Conventional medical treatments were failing her,... Read more

Extreme Medicine

By: Kevin Fong, MD

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world's environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it... Read more

Blessing the Hands That Feed Us

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Vicki Robin

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking the locavore movement to heart, bestselling coauthor and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also... Read more

50 Foods

By: Edward Behr

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With 50 Foods, noted authority Edward Behr has created the definitive guide to the foods every food lover must know. A culinary Baedeker, 50 Foods will delight and inform the connoisseur as well as the novice.



Like Behr's celebrated magazine, the Art of Eating, 50 Foods presents simple, practical information about buying, using, preparing, and... Read more