Undo It!

How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases

By: Dean Ornish, Anne Ornish

Narrated by: Dean Ornish, Anne Ornish

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

National best seller

Fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease, weight gain, and even the aging process itself with one simple, scientifically proven plan to reverse disease - as well as prevent and reduce symptoms - from the world-renowned pioneer of lifestyle medicine.

Dean Ornish, MD, has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse - undo! - the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level.

Medicare and many insurance companies now cover Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported - based on 40 years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.

Now, in this landmark audiobook, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur. They describe what it is, why it works, and how you can do it:

• Eat well: a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The “Ornish diet” has been rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report every year from 2011 to 2017.
• Move more: moderate exercise such as walking
• Stress less: including meditation and gentle yoga practices
• Love more: how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing

With 70 recipes, easy-to-follow meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of life-transforming benefits - for example, several people improved so much after only nine weeks that they were able to avoid a heart transplant - Undo It! empowers listeners with new hope and new choices.

“The Ornishes’ work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize, since it can change the world!” (Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States)

“If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today.” (Rita F. Redberg, MD, editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine)

“This is one of the most important books on health ever written.” (John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market)

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish (P)2019 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“This book will change your life. Every day people ask me how they can activate their longevity genes to reverse aging and stave off age-associated diseases. Now I can say, ‘Go read Undo It!’” (David A. Sinclair, PhD, AO, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School)

“Dean Ornish is from the future!” (Jack Hidary, senior adviser, Google X)

“Empowering and inspiring millions of people with new hope and new choices.” (Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce; owner, Time Magazine)

“This book is a lifesaver!” (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter)

Better as a book than audiobook

I like the content of this audiobook however I felt this information isn’t new. Eat a plant based diet and take care of yourself.

However there is a lot of background information that proves why eating plant based diet is better for you.

Since it has a lot of technical info, which I liked, I felt it would be easier to read than listen to. They reference info in the pdf but it’s not in chronological with the chapters and that makes it hard to follow.

Great Information and It Works!

Packed full of education information and presented in a manner that helps the learning process.

Great pick for any stage of life.

Can feel very sis male centered

Also the diagrams they say are in the PDF file are not in the file. There are loads of great recipes though.

Just Awesome!

I immediately went and bought the book and the kindle book. Very much worth the read with new recipes and ideas for implementing the Ornish life style.

Informative enlightening beautifully read by the Author.

Easy to listen easy to grasp Dr’s excellent advice knowledge and understanding of lifestyle medicine so grateful to this gentleman.

Good Content, Uneven Delivery

Great overall content that’s emphasized by the authors. As with all the other reviews, Anne’s pace could pick up a bit (I set the reading speed at something like 1.2x to make it feel normal). Also a lot of what Anne reviewed were stretches or workouts, which I feel would be better to skip over and just refer to the accompanying PDF. That took up close to 1-2 hours of listening time just getting through those sections. All-in-all good messages around how we all need to eat better, move more, stress less and love more.

Nothing new here

I was expecting more from this book. Nothing that I haven't already read. A lot of self promotion in my opinion.

Changed My Life!

I have been eating healthy (plant based) and doing yoga for many years trying to feel better. UnDo it! seemed to put all the pieces together for me. Anne approaches your feelings and your body in the most intuitive and loving way. The other day, before going into a stressful situation, my husband and I listened to chapter 7 again, to make sure we were in a successful (loving) mind set. Thank you Anne and Dean!

Very Insightful

A must-read if you want to help yourself navigate through the traditional healthcare system that doesn't treat the person, only body parts. This book will help you become your own best advocate.
What you eat affects every aspect of your health. Unfortunately, most doctors don't know this. Just look at stage III & IV cancer patients' social media; most are still eating fatty and sugary food. Obviously their doctors aren't prescribing a plant based (cancer inhibiting) diet. Why?

Inspiring forevermore to you both

Dr. Ornish and Anne have been such a pleasure to listen to while reading along. Best of regards to healthful living and keep inspiring all of us!! Thank you both for all the work that you do. Kindest wishes for your health journey, Anne. Hang in there you both!