Medicine audiobooks

Curable

By: Travis Christofferson

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a “Moneyball” prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the Truth
The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to rise. There is an epidemic of chronic disease in children. Even with all the money and modern... Read more

The Undying

By: Anne Boyer

Narrated by: Amy Finegan

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data?sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying. A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For... Read more

Cancer and the New Biology of Water

By: Dr. Thomas Cowan

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking look at the role of water in living organisms that ultimately brings us closer to answering the riddle of the etiology of, and therapy and treatment for, cancer When President Nixon launched the War on Cancer with the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 and the allocation of billions of research dollars, it was amidst a... Read more

The End of Food Allergy

By: Kari Nadeau MD, PhD & Sloan Barnett

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A life-changing, research-based program that will end food allergies in children and adults forever.

The problem of food allergy is exploding around us. But this book offers the first glimpse of hope with a powerful message: You can work with your family and your doctor to eliminate your food allergy forever.

The trailblazing research of Dr. Kari... Read more

Information Medicine

By: Ervin Laszlo & Pier Mario Biava

Narrated by: Kathleen Roche-Zujko

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A look at the future of medicine based on cutting-edge stem cell research

• Shares Dr. Biava’s groundbreaking research on stem cell differentiation stage factors (SCDSFs) as a cellular “reprogramming” treatment for cancer and other degenerative diseases

• Explains how SCDSFs restore communication between cells and the epigenetic code, the... Read more

Creative Care

By: Anne Basting

Narrated by: Anne Basting

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient pioneers a radical change in how we interact with older loved ones, especially those experiencing dementia, as she introduces a proven method that uses the creative arts to bring light and joy to the lives of elders.

In Creative Care, Anne Basting lays the groundwork for a widespread transformation in our... Read more

The First Cell

By: Azra Raza

Narrated by: Sheherzad Raza Preisler

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A world-class oncologist's devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical... Read more

Denial

By: Jessica Stern

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, comes an intimate and astonishingly frank examination of her own rape at 15, the life of her rapist, and how both shaped her life and work. Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder. She has... Read more

Waiting for an Echo

By: Christine Montross

Narrated by: Christine Montross

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

*L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist* 
*New York Times Book Review Paperback Row*
*New York Times Books to Watch for in July*
*Time Best New Books July 2020*

Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human cost of mass incarceration and mental illness

Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating... Read more

The Power of Fastercise

By: Doctor Denis Wilson

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary program of short burst, high-intensity exercise that uses your body's signals to curb hunger as it burns fat and builds muscle

Over the last 26 years, thyroid pioneer Denis Wilson, MD, has trained thousands of physicians on the crucial relationships between the thyroid system, metabolism, and body temperature. He’s heard... Read more

Mengele

By: Gerald Posner & John Ware

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911–1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be... Read more

Contraception

By: Donna J. Drucker

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this... Read more

Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine

By: Lee Know

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

With information for patients and practitioners on optimizing mitochondrial function for greater health and longevity Why do we age? Why does cancer develop? What's the connection between heart failure and Alzheimer's disease, or infertility and hearing loss? Can we extend lifespan, and if so, how? What is the Exercise Paradox? Why do... Read more

fMRI

By: Peter A. Bandettini

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The discovery of functional MRI (fMRI) methodology in 1991 was a breakthrough in neuroscience research. This non-invasive, relatively high-speed, and high sensitivity method of mapping human brain activity enabled observation of subtle localized changes in blood flow associated with brain activity. Thousands of scientists around the world have... Read more

Love Drugs

By: Brian D. Earp & Julian Savulescu

Narrated by: Brian D. Earp

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug," to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties and strengthen their connection. Others may help sever an emotional connection during a... Read more

Inferno

By: Catherine Cho

Narrated by: Catherine Cho

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis.

This program is read by the author.

When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family... Read more

The Wild Life of Our Bodies

By: Rob Dunn

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Biologist Rob Dunn reveals the crucial influence that other species have upon our health, our well-being, and our world in The WildLife of Our Bodies—a fascinating tour through the hidden truths of nature and codependence. Dunn illuminates the nuanced, often imperceptible relationships that exist between homo sapiens and other species,... Read more

White Hot Light

By: Frank Huyler

Narrated by: Gary Bennett

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.

In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of... Read more

Trauma and Recovery

By: Judith Lewis Herman

Narrated by: Alison Mathews & Xe Sands

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)

Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is... Read more

Color Medicine

By: Charles Klotsche

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A new dimension in holistic healing, Color Medicine provides a powerful technique for treating specific imbalances and strengthening the immune system. By combining aura-attuned chromatherapy with harmonious sounds, tissue salts, and hydrochromatherapy, the forty-ninth vibrational technique was developed. It is safe, simple, economical, and... Read more

Fentanyl, Inc.

By: Ben Westhoff

Narrated by: Alex Boyles

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,”... Read more

10% Human

By: Alanna Collen

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are... Read more

Holistic Keto for Gut Health

By: Kristin Grayce McGary

Narrated by: Robin Douglas

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A step-by-step guide to addressing autoimmune and other health challenges through a healthy digestive system

• Offers a therapeutic ketogenic gut repair program that differs from mainstream ketogenic diets because it excludes inflammatory foods that cause gut damage, immune dysfunction, accelerated aging, and tissue damage

• Provides a... Read more

The End of Alzheimer's Program

By: Dale Bredesen

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Best Selling author of The End of Alzheimer's lays out a specific plan to help everyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline or simply maximize brainpower.

In The End of Alzheimer's Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his revolutionary new program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's... Read more