Health audiobooks

Treat Me, Not My Age

By: Mark Lachs, MD

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

We're all getting older, all the time, but too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health care system, where ageist medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to address or avoid... Read more

Relaxation Revolution

By: Herbert Benson & William Proctor

Narrated by: Gerry Gartenberg

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

More than three decades ago, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School proposed a theory in his multimillion-copy bestseller The Relaxation Response, which stated that by calming the mind, one could calm the body and alleviate stress, pain, and illness. Recent landmark research from the genome project has proven Benson's theory: using the... Read more

The Nine Rooms of Happiness

By: Catherine Birndorf & Lucy Danziger

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask any woman how she's feeling. Even when things look pretty darn great from the outside, chances are that at least one thing (and it may seem minor to others) is nagging at her, making her feel less than spectacular, bringing her down: I'm too fat. My husband doesn't help enough around the house. My friend is going to be mad if I don't call... Read more

Why Women Have Sex

By: David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.



Through the voices of real women, Meston and... Read more

The Mind-Beauty Connection

By: Amy Wechsler

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Stress ages us. It's a scientific fact that negative emotions, sleep deprivation, and high-pressure schedules wear on our looks—especially our skin. As we all cope with ever-increasing career demands, household hassles, family pressures, and financial concerns, the stress is written all over our faces in the form of premature lines, skin spots,... Read more

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?

By: Jena Pincott

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Cosmopolitan meets Scientific American in this entertaining and informative question-and-answer book on human attraction. Based on the latest studies in science, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? answers more than 100 wild, weird, and very pressing questions, including:



—Why do some men smell better to you than others?



—Are good dancers also... Read more

The Detox Strategy

By: Leonard Smith, M.D. & Brenda Watson, C.N.C.

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Regardless of where and how you live, your body is harboring dozens if not hundreds of toxins that could be sabotaging your health. Low on energy? Dealing with chronic illness? Having trouble losing weight? Toxins might be to blame. From your mattress to your toothpaste to your nonstick pans to the food you eat and the (bottled) water you... Read more

The GenoType Diet

By: Peter J. D'Adamo & Catherine Whitney

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the internationally bestselling Eat Right 4 Your Type again breaks new ground with the first diet plan based on your unique genetic code.



With Eat Right 4 Your Type and additional books in the Blood Type Diet series, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo pioneered a new, revolutionary approach to dieting—one linked to a person's blood type. In The... Read more

Ageless Face, Ageless Mind

By: Nicholas Perricone, M.D.

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Nicholas Perricone is one of the most famous dermatologists in the world thanks to his bestselling book The Wrinkle Cure and his award-winning public television specials. In that book, he elaborated on his research into the connection between inflammation and aging—why we wrinkle as we get older.



In Ageless Face, Ageless Mind, Dr. Perricone... Read more

The Duke Diet

By: Martin Binks, Ph.D. & Howard J. Eisenson, M.D.

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Duke Diet and Fitness Center is the most prestigious residential weight loss program in America and the only one based in a medical school. Their program yields stunning results and is now available to everyone.



The Duke Diet includes: Two delicious diet plans from the Duke program with different carb levels; four weeks of easy-to-use menu... Read more

Sex on the Brain

By: Daniel G. Amen, MD

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"The vast majority of love and sex occurs in the brain. Your brain decides who is attractive to you, how to get a date, how well you do on the date, what to do with the feelings that develop, how long those feelings last, when to commit, and how well you do as a partner and a parent. Your brain helps you be enthusiastic in the bedroom or drains... Read more

The Shangri-La Diet

By: Seth Roberts, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychologist and professor Seth Roberts has spent years analyzing why most diets don't work. A maverick with a curious mind, and a yen for self-experimentation, he started by asking a simple question most experts haven't tackled: What makes us feel hungry in the first place?



After scouring the scientific literature and tirelessly testing various... Read more

Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade

By: Guy Browning

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death—they're all terrifically exciting, but they happen whether we like it or not. It's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the million and one everyday challenges?



Help is at hand. For the first time you can get intelligent, practical tuition on... Read more

We Are All the Same

By: Jim Wooten

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.



Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all... Read more

Beating Back the Devil

By: Maryn McKenna

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES.



They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than the country they are traveling to and the... Read more

Food Fight

By: Mckay Jenkins

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Are GMOs really that bad?  A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us.

In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population... Read more

The Sleep Solution

By: W. Chris Winter, M.D.

Narrated by: W. Chris Winter, M.D.

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the host of the Sleep Unplugged podcast—with cutting-edge sleep science and time-tested techniques, The Sleep Solution will help anyone achieve healthy sleep and eliminate pills, pain, and fatigue.

If you want to fix your sleep problems, Internet tips and tricks aren’t going to do it for you. You need to really understand what’s going on... Read more

The Cancer Whisperer

By: Sophie Sabbage

Narrated by: Sophie Sabbage

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer.

“I have cancer. Cancer does not have me.”

Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight years old, happily married, and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since that shocking diagnosis, she has been on a remarkable... Read more

Whoa, Baby!

By: Kelly Rowland & Tristan Bickman

Narrated by: Kelly Rowland, Tristan Bickman & Laura Moser

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When global pop star Kelly Rowland became a mom for the first time, giving birth to her son Titan, she felt the most incredible love she had ever experienced. But after spending nine months so focused on the baby growing inside her, she was caught completely off guard by how much she had changed. Like many first-time moms, she was not ready for... Read more

Your Pregnancy, Your Way

By: Allison Hill

Narrated by: Alicyn Packard

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As an OB/GYN, Dr. Allison Hill has delivered thousands of babies; as a mom, she's given birth to her own two children. Hill has a unique perspective on the many questions moms have surrounding pregnancy and childbirth—especially when it comes to "going natural." Drawing on her twenty years of expertise as well as current medical data, she weighs... Read more

The Mouth-Body Connection

By: Gerald P. Curatola & Diane Reverand

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed oral health expert and wellness pioneer, Dr. Gerry Curatola, explores the bi-directional relationship between the health of your mouth and your body, and provides a groundbreaking program for creating a healthy mouth that will help maintain a healthy body.

The mouth acts as mirror and a gateway and reflects what is happening in the rest... Read more

The Cut

By: Morris Chestnut & Obi Obadike

Narrated by: Obi Obadike

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Backed by the latest cutting-edge nutrition science, and featuring celebrity fitness ​instructor Obi Obadike​'s trademark fat-burning exercise program, The Cut is designed to help readers drop pounds quickly—up to 10 pounds in 10 days and 40 pounds in 12 weeks—without stalling on the scale!

Transform Your Body in Just 12 Weeks!

Hollywood leading... Read more

The DNA Restart

By: Sharon Moalem

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The DNA Restart by world-renowned neurogeneticist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sharon Moalem walks you through revolutionary steps to a diet and lifestyle perfect for your individual genetic makeup. The DNA Restart plan utilizes decades of in-depth scientific research into genetics, epigenetics, nutrition, and longevity to explain... Read more

Your Health, Your Decisions

By: Robert Alan McNutt

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician’s decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions,... Read more