Health audiobooks

Complete Astanga Yoga Primary Series

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program recorded live in New York City, Beryl guides the listener through a 95 minute program that contains the Complete Astanga Yoga Primary Series (as taught to her by Norman Allen and Sri K.P. Jois). Read more

Everyday Mindfulness - A Meditation Practice

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Yoga pioneer and best-selling author Beryl Bender Birch offers listeners a guided meditation, with a beautiful musical accompaniment, as part of her Everyday Mindfulness series. This recording is an excellent follow-up to Birch’s Meditation for Beginners recording, or can be used by more advanced practitioners who do not need the instruction... Read more

Intermediate Workout

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system... Read more

Primary Series of Astanga Yoga for New Practitioners

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system... Read more

Beginner's Instructional Power Yoga

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system... Read more

Abnehmen durch Essen - Abridged

By: Cornelia Mertens

Narrated by: Dagmar Berghoff & Joachim von Hein

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Abnehmen durch Essen" ist anders. Es ist keine Diät, es werden keine Kalorien gezählt. Auch ein Stück Kuchen, Süßigkeiten, Fast Food, Fertiggerichte und Co. sind erlaubt - und Sie nehmen trotzdem ab. Das Programm wird seit mehreren Jahren von der Brücke e.V. in Hamburg erfolgreich eingesetzt und wurde jetzt durch eine wissenschaftliche... Read more

The New Sugar Busters!

By: Sam S. Andrews, M.D., Luis A. Balart, M.D., Mor...

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sugar Busters! hit the shelves almost five years ago, it quickly became a diet and lifestyle phenomenon. The millions of people across the country on the Sugar Busters! plan discovered that by simply choosing the correct carbohydrates and lowering their sugar intake, they could shed the pounds they failed to lose with other diets. Now the... Read more

Schlafen statt Schreien (Hörbuch)

By: Elizabeth Pantley

Narrated by: Frauke Poolmann, Jenny Antoni, Irina Salkow, Ka...

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ihre Nerven liegen blank, weil Ihr Kind Sie Nacht für Nacht auf Trab hält? Sie wollen endlich mal wieder ein paar Stunden am Stück schlafen und Kraft tanken? Erfahren Sie in rund einer Stunde, wie Ihnen dieses kleine Wunder gelingen kann. Schreien lassen war gestern Babys Tag- und Nachtrhythmus: Wie Ihr Baby schläft Einschlaf-Rituale und der... Read more

Zoobiquity

By: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human... Read more

Full Body Burden

By: Kristen Iversen

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Kristen Iversen

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
 
A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic... Read more

Fit2Fat2Fit

By: Drew Manning

Narrated by: Drew Manning

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Drew Manning, a natural fitness junkie and devoted personal trainer, had never been overweight in his life. He never craved junk food or missed an opportunity to work out. Yet despite his obsession with fitness, he failed to help his clients reach their goals. Something had to give. Manning needed to understand what it was like to be on the... Read more

The Tools

By: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most... Read more

That's Why I'm Here

By: Chris Spielman

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Spielman, an Ohio State football legend and a four-time NFL Pro Bowl linebacker, didn't tackle his toughest opponent until his playing career was almost over.In 1998, Spielman's wife, Stefanie, was diagnosed with breast cancer, launching an eleven-year journey that brought joy and suffering to the Spielmans and hope and inspiration to... Read more

American Grown - Abridged

By: Michelle Obama

Narrated by: Michelle Obama, Jim Adams, Charlie Brandts, Chr...

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities.
 
Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a... Read more

The First 20 Minutes

By: Gretchen Reynolds

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Wednesday, Gretchen Reynolds singlehandedly influences how millions of Americans work out. In her Phys Ed column for The New York Times, she debunks myths, spurs conversation, and creates arguments among her readers by questioning widely held beliefs about exercise. Expanding upon her popular columns, Reynolds tackles the questions we all... Read more

The Speckled Monster

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SPECKLED MONSTER is both a hair-raising tale of courage in the face of the deadliest disease that has ever struck mankind, and a gripping account of the birth of modern immunology. Jennifer Lee Carrell's dramatic story follows two parents who, after barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, flouted eighteenth-century European... Read more

Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old

By: Lisa Abidin & Suzy Giordano

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

There is no bigger issue for healthy infants than sleeping through the night. In this simple, straightforward book, Suzy Giordano presents her amazingly effective "Limited-Crying Solution" that will get any baby to sleep for twelve hours at night—and three hours in the day—by the age of twelve weeks old.

Giordano is the mother of five children... Read more

Dream New Dreams

By: Jai Pausch

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer.
 
"Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife. "Jai knows that she’ll have to give herself permission to make herself a... Read more

The Skinny Rules - Abridged

By: Bob Harper & Greg Critser

Narrated by: Bob Harper

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With so much conflicting weight-loss advice out there to confuse your efforts, it’s no wonder you haven’t been successful losing weight and keeping it off. But with Bob Harper, superstar trainer and co-host of NBC’s hit show The Biggest Loser as your personal authority and coach, you can and will finally shed the pounds—whether you want to lose... Read more

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Debra Monk, Julia Gibson, Kate Forbes, Susan Be...

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginia native Lee Smith has won two O. Henry Awards, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the Robert Penn Warren Prize for her engaging works. A collection of 14 tales-both new stories and previously published favorites-Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger is sure to delight listeners with its warm humor and unforgettable characters.... Read more

My Big Bottom Blessing

By: Teasi Cannon

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Loving the girl in the mirror isn't about changing how you look, but allowing God to change how you see. Teasi Cannon’s lifelong battle with body image nearly destroyed her. Yet today she feels blessed—not because the size of her lower half has changed but because her perspective has. In her often hilarious, no-nonsense style, Teasi's gut-honest... Read more

Take Control of Your Cancer

By: James W. Forsythe

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer rates continue to skyrocket, and the overall survival rate for stage IV cancer patients in the United States is a grim 2.1 percent. Clearly, the extensive use of expensive—sometimes ineffective—toxins in conventional oncology protocols is a failing strategy. Even the few survivors of these harsh slash-and-burn treatments can have a... Read more

Once a Warrior---Always a Warrior

By: Charles W. Hoge, M.D.

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It's with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, M.D., a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental health care, presents Once a Warrior—Always a Warrior, a groundbreaking resource with essential new insights for anyone who has ever... Read more

Drop Dead Healthy

By: A. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, a chronicle of A.J. Jacob’s mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind—from his brain to his fingertips to his abs.

From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in... Read more