Health audiobooks
Flu - Abridged
By: Gina Kolata
Narrated by: Gina Kolata
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.
When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty... Read more
A Guided Meditation To Help With Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Inflammatory Bowel Disease
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This guided meditation for IBS and inflammatory bowel disease consists of state-of-the-art, research-based guided imagery and affirmations to help people successfully manage and reduce the distressing, painful symptoms of IBS and IBD, naturally and holistically. The guided meditation for IBS is also designed to work well with more traditional... Read more
View audiobookTwo Guided Meditations For Cardiac ICU & Rehab
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
We created this 2-part guided imagery audio with noted cardiothoracic surgeon Mehmet Oz at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, to accelerate healing, reduce pain and depression, and motivate exercise and healthy new habits, while cultivating optimism and patience with the recovery process. The track list is as follows:Part 1: Guided Imagery... Read more
View audiobookGuided Meditations To Help with Fertility
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This set of four separate fertility meditation exercises was created to provide holistic, mind-body tools to help with infertility challenges and boost desired results. The Health Journeys expertly made, physician-endorsed collection of guided imagery for fertility is designed to reduce the stresses that naturally occur with infertility and its... Read more
View audiobookA Guided Meditation To Help With Stem Cell Therapy
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This guided imagery audio for bone marrow transplant recovery uses powerful metaphors of rescue, rebirth and resurrection to cushion the rigors of stem cell transplant recovery. The evocative images of love, protection and support on this audio program of guided meditation and affirmations instill hope, energy, comfort and patience during a... Read more
View audiobookA Parent's Guide to Intuitive Eating: How to Raise Kids Who Love to Eat Healthy
By: Yami Cazorla-Lancaster
Narrated by: Yami Cazorla-Lancaster
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Most children are born with the innate ability to eat the appropriate amount of food to satisfy their hunger and support appropriate growth. Despite this, parents are still anxious and confused about how much and what to feed their children. In addition, many children are labeled as โpicky eatersโ or develop behaviors such as hiding and sneaking... Read more
View audiobookA Short Guide to a Happy Life
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Anna Quindlen
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling authorย Anna Quindlenโs classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for any occasion.
โLife is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that wonโt... Read more
Nutritional Tools for Diabetes
By: Julian Whitaker
Narrated by: Julian Whitaker
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Although doctors are quick to prescribe medication to lower blood sugar, they often overlook the adverse side effects. While drugs may decrease blood sugar levels, they also increase the risk of heart disease, which is the cause of death for 75 percent of all diabetics. Dr. Julian Whitaker's experience over the past 25 years in treating... Read more
View audiobookHealing and the Mind
By: Bill Moyers
Narrated by: Bill Moyers
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to... Read more
View audiobookTen Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life - Abridged
By: Dr. James Balch
Narrated by: Dr. James Balch
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Dr. James F. Balch's book Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A-to-Z Guide to Supplements established him as one of the most trusted authorities in the fields of alternative and homeopathic medicine.ย ย Now, in a groundbreaking new volume that may well revolutionize the way Americans think about their health, his potentially life-saving wisdom... Read more
View audiobookKeep the Connection - Abridged
By: Bob Greene
Narrated by: Bob Greene
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Make the Connection, Bob Greene and Opra Winfrey told listeners how to lose weight and keep it off, using a combination of diet and moderate exercise.ย ย Now, in Keep the Connection, Bob Greene tells us how to keep the momentum going.ย ย The fitness expert who helped Oprah lose weight and get into shape shares his secrets for how to become even... Read more
View audiobookInstant Emotional Healing - Abridged
By: George Pratt & Peter Lambrou
Narrated by: George Pratt & Peter Lambrou
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The revolutionary, highly effective technique that allows you to free yourself from emotional hang-upsโforever!
Does your fear of flying make travel with friends and family impossible? Are you having trouble coping with the loss of a loved one or forgiving yourself for a mistake you made long ago? For the millions of people who suffer from... Read more
Wasted - Abridged
By: Marya Hornbacher
Narrated by: Marya Hornbacher
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of five, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on a enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried--because she thought she was fat. By age nine she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at... Read more
View audiobookDaughter of the Queen of Sheba - Abridged
By: Jacki Lyden
Narrated by: Jacki Lyden
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world's most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing up in a small Midwestern town,... Read more
View audiobookAwakening the Buddha Within - Abridged
By: Lama Surya Das
Narrated by: Lama Surya Das
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment.ย ย In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a... Read more
The Tae-Bo Way - Abridged
By: Billy Blanks
Narrated by: Billy Blanks
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Team up with the creator of Tae-Bo, the total body workout.ย ย Strengthen your spirit, mind, and body!
Energizing and explosive, Tae-Bo is the hottest workout in America. It's fun. It's exciting. It's simple to learn. And best of all, it works! It's Tae-Bo: the future of fitness. And here's the book that teaches you the ultimate way to fitness for... Read more
Slim Forever - For Women: Subliminal Self-Help - Abridged
By: Audio Activation
Narrated by: Audio Activation
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's a scientific fact: subliminal persuasion works. Now you can lose weight anywhere, anytimeโwithout dieting. Play SLIM FOREVER on your CD player as you dress in the morning, travel to work, or when you want to unwind. Just listen to this gentle combination of soothing relaxation techniques, soft music, and persuasive affirmations and let your... Read more
View audiobookDr. Jerome Groopman: Second Opinion
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Jerome Groopman shares personal experiences as a patient and physician in his book Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine. In this interview, Groopman expands on the concepts of intuition and choice in medical care, patient participation, his personal experiences, and more. Read more
View audiobookThe Promise of Sleep - Abridged
By: William C. Dement & Christopher Vaughan
Narrated by: Jeff McCarthy
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
SLEEP BETTER, LIVE LONGER WITH THE GROUNDBREAKING INFORMATION AND STEP-BY-STEP PROGRAM IN THIS REVOLUTIONARY AUDIOBOOK
Healthful sleep has been empirically proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise, or heredity. And yet we are a sleep-sick society, ignorant of the facts of sleep --... Read more
The Corporate Athlete - Abridged
By: Jack Groppel & Bob Andelman
Narrated by: Jack Groppel
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Today's corporate world is much like the world of professional sports -- fiercely competitive, mentally and physically demanding, and requiring constant, vigilant, training. More than ever, to maintain health, happiness, and career success, executives and employees must become Corporate Athletes.
Based on the latest scientific and medical... Read more
Guided Meditation To Support A Healthy Pregnancy & Successful Childbirth
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This meditation for pregnancy and childbirth offers powerful and effective guided imagery and affirmations on how to best prepare for carrying and delivering a baby. This is a natural, holistic, mind-body tool for anyone anticipating a pregnancy or expecting a baby, to help with the discomforts, anxieties and unwanted symptoms that can accompany... Read more
View audiobookA Guided Meditation For Healthful Sleep
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Our hugely popular sleep meditation helps those who wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep, and it's perfect for people who simply want to doze off faster. For a surprising number of listeners, it eventually replaces sleep medication. Repeated listening at bedtime for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum effectiveness. The Health... Read more
View audiobookReturn to Wholeness - Abridged
By: David Simon, M.D. & Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Narrated by: David Simon, M.D. & Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Beautiful. . . . If you are facing cancer or any other serious illness, I encourage you to allow the wisdom contained within these pages to nurture, guide, and support you.-Deepak Chopra, M.D., from his foreword
Return to Wholeness is a revelation. David Simon breaks new ground with the innovative, holistic mind-body approaches developed at the... Read more
Dr. Atkins' Age-Defying Diet Revolution - Abridged
By: Robert C. Atkins
Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
THE DOCTOR AMERICA TRUSTS NOW SHOWS YOU HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER!
World-renowned medical expert Dr. Robert C. Atkins has shown millions how to lose weight and keep it off, eating the foods they like without being hungry. Now he presents a revolutionary program to give you a longer, better, healthier life.
This new plan is not just a... Read more