The Rabbit Effect

Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

By: Kelli Harding MD MPH

Narrated by: Kelli Harding

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

This groundbreaking and life-changing work based on the latest research effectively demonstrates “the profound impact that love, connection, and kindness have on our health” (Mark Williamson, PhD, director of Action for Happiness).

When Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding began her clinical practice, she never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits. In 1978, a seemingly straightforward experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood cholesterol and heart health in rabbits discovered that kindness — in the form of a particularly nurturing post-doc who pet and spoke to the lab rabbits as she fed them — made the difference between a heart attack and a healthy heart.

As Dr. Kelli Harding reveals in this eye-opening book, the rabbits were just the beginning of a much larger story. Groundbreaking new research shows that love, friendship, community, and our environment can have a greater impact on our health than anything that happens in the doctor’s office. For instance, chronic loneliness can be as unhealthy as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day; napping regularly can decrease one’s risk of heart disease; and people with purpose are less likely to get sick. At once paradigm-shifting and empowering, The Rabbit Effect illuminates vital public health research showing kindness in our day-to-day lives can make the “world a healthier, happier place. I recommend this book highly for anyone who wants to live more healthfully” (Christy Turlington Burns, and CEO of Every Mother Counts).

©2019 Kelli Harding (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio

Absolutely love this!!

I have so many personal examples in my life that prove love and connection to be a true gift of health. let's do our part and share love and kindness!

Wonderful book

A book that has led me to expand my thinking about medicine, community and human connections. Excellent book!

good book

Somewhat technical but it was well done. Left me with alot to think about. good book

Read this one ASAP

I absolutely loved this book! Words couldn’t do it justice. Its my opinion everyone should read it!

Amazing

Everyone should read this book. It’s one of the best I’ve read… and has impacted my life. Will change my heath. And has inspired me to help change the world. Phenomenal. Filled with gratitude that my sister, a nurse, was required to read it and I decided… what the heck… truly life changing.

I Care

As a retired nurse I could appreciate the message expressed. I miss the work and the people, both staff and patients. It was always my desire to make a difficult time easier regardless of the outcome. The final bit regarding her mother and son brought a lump to my throat. Thank you for an inspiring message.

Content vs Delivery

The lifestyle discoveries within are SO important, illuminating and of immeasurable help to all of us who desire to become the best we can be. Unfortunately, listening to the book being read AT me by the author spoiled what could have been an outstanding experience. I found her voice unpleasant and made the worse by her plodding cadence along with the apparent stressing of “important “points, that I couldn’t listen for long periods. I would suggest another edition in which the author try lowering her pitch and narrating as though she were talking to an audience naturally. .Or she could find a good narrator...I prefer soothing male voices myself.

Powerful content, excellent narration

I recommend this book to anyone working to improve themselves, impact lives of their loved ones, and those looking for clarity of the path and how to get there.

A book for everyone

This book will help anyone and everyone to see inside themselves to know what is really important in life what we need to do to hold onto it and share it with the world.

No one can read this without becoming better.

I loved how this was backed up by reputable science and peer-reviewed studies, apostle really broke out of our Western medicine style of isolating the body from social and economic factors.

I love the encouragement to be better, and the reassurance that everyday kindness matters and makes a palpable difference.

This is a book I will definitely read again, that I want to buy and mark up. It's worth a listen!