Top Health & Fitness Podcasts

My show is about breaking silence. It’s about the stories we don’t talk about — the struggles, the scars, the battles that happen behind closed doors. I know what it’s like to carry something heavy and feel like no one understands. That’s why this show exists: to share real conversations about courage, resilience, and what it takes to keep moving forward when life knocks you down. This isn’t just about me. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt alone, ashamed, or stuck. Each episode is a chance to shine a light on the hidden battles people face, to give hope, and to remind us all that silence doesn’t win — courage does.

In a world where people are living longer than ever, our biggest challenge isn’t adding more years to our life but adding life to those years. How can we maximize our health, wellness, and lifestyle to ensure we’re not simply existing, but truly thriving? What are the secrets to living more vibrantly and purposefully? How can we celebrate each day as an incredible gift? As we’re reconceptualizing the shift from extending lifespan to prioritizing healthspan, we’re embracing a revolution that redefines what it means to live well. With these groundbreaking shifts underway, it’s time to consider how you’ll spend the next decades.

The Fully Alive podcast dives into the cutting-edge research and innovations shaping the future of positive aging: breakthroughs in medicine, advancements in technology, and novel strategies to extend and improve your life. From practical health tips to a radical rethinking of longevity, Fully Alive offers solutions to the powerful need to fill our days with intention, vitality, and joy.

Host Zach Gurick will be your guide to unlocking these remarkable discoveries. With a multifaceted background spanning the fields of biology, chemistry, and theology, Zach has a deep understanding of the science of healthy aging and the human desire for meaning. His passion for staying on top of the latest breakthroughs in wellness fuels excitement in each episode, ensuring listeners receive insights that are both informed and inspiring. As the Director of Sales and Optimal Aging at Shell Point, Zach has firsthand experience helping people navigate pivotal life decisions, making him the perfect companion for this transformative journey. Beyond his professional expertise, Zach’s dedication to personal wellness shines through his athletic achievements, including completing multiple Ironman 70.3 events, a Full Ironman, and numerous marathons and half-marathons.

Discover entertaining conversations with leading experts, including thought leaders, celebrated authors, pioneering physicians, and innovators from various disciplines. Their dynamic discussions will challenge conventional thinking, offering you a fresh perspective on navigating the complexities of aging while embracing opportunities for growth. By addressing the unique physical, emotional, and societal aspects of health, this podcast fosters a deeper understanding of what it means to live not just longer, but more meaningfully.

Fully Alive is produced by Shell Point, the largest single-site life plan community in the United States. Located minutes away from Sanibel and Captiva Islands in Southwest Florida, Shell Point’s residents enjoy resort-style amenities in a luxurious, waterfront setting – with the assurance of life care. The community offers extensive wellness options, including a state-of-the-art gym, group fitness classes, and miles of picturesque nature trails perfect for walking or biking. Residents also take advantage of a championship golf course, tennis and pickleball courts, aquatic exercises, and hundreds of opportunities of education, socialization, and artistic expression. 

Join us for engaging conversations, expert interviews, and actionable advice to help you embrace each day with energy and purpose. Life is too precious to waste a single moment – start your journey to becoming Fully Alive.

Tune in to Fully Alive at https://www.shellpoint.org/podcast/ and take the first step toward a healthier, more fulfilling future.

The messy road of life is difficult to navigate alone, and it’s often tough to figure out the next best step. Hosted by psychologist and author Dr. Carla Marie Manly, the Imperfect Love podcast sheds light on the complicated, sensitive problems that affect us all. Dr. Carla responds to listeners’ real-life questions with a mindfulness-based approach. She delivers quality, nourishing advice on finding love and happiness by learning to embrace life's imperfections.

In supportive conversations with Dr. Carla, you’ll be inspired to cultivate inner joy and create the loving relationships you deserve. With her unique body-mind-spirit focus, she’ll help you create self-love and transform your challenges into growth opportunities.  Each episode is an invitation to explore what does and doesn’t work for you. Collectively, the episodes will help you live the life you were meant to live—the life you want to live—right now.

Looking to grow and change for the better? Discover and hone the skills that will bring you fulfillment and success. Explore the shifts that will help you create the life of your dreams. Increase your self-esteem as you let go of the fear and perfectionism that feed everything from anxiety and body image issues to people-pleasing. Get unstuck and gain confidence by turning negative messages into fuel for change. Feel the transformation that comes from loving your wonderful, imperfect self.

Tired of unsatisfying love relationships? Learn how to attract “perfectly flawed” love that helps you feel seen and respected. Explore love’s highs and lows as you discover how to avoid pitfalls and build emotionally intimate relationships. Discover effective skills for cultivating boundaries, emotional intelligence (EQ), and communication skills to improve your dating life, marriage, or other romantic relationship. Delve into hot topics including narcissism, red flags, toxic patterns, sexuality, apologies, insecure attachment issues, situationships, conflict, trauma, and more.

Looking for genuine, supportive friendships? Get the tools you need to create connections with people who understand, accept, and appreciate you. Learn how to let go of unhealthy friends and discover how to build friendships with people who will respect your boundaries and value you for who you are.

Struggling with parenting, in-laws, siblings, or other family issues? Explore challenging family dynamics and attachment problems from multiple angles. Master communication strategies and discover how to shift dysfunctional family patterns with mindful love and empathy. 

Feeling burned out or unsatisfied at work? Investigate the problems that make work feel like a depressing chore. Discover the power of workplace EQ and the importance of work-life balance. Learn to use self-care to avoid burnout and feel passionate about your job.

Yearning for respect, equality, and unconditional love? If you identify as a member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community or other marginalized group and have been rejected because of who you are or who you love, you’ll find inclusivity and affirmation. Dr. Carla's platform is welcoming of all sexual orientations and gender identities. 

Above all, Imperfect Love creates a warm and accepting space for you to reconnect with your inherent goodness, wisdom, and spirituality. Discover the benefits of self-care and healthy mindset shifts to create positive patterns and internal abundance. Embrace effective stress-reduction techniques such as meditation, journaling, and breathwork to reduce anxiety, calm your mind, and take control of your emotions. Manifest the inner joy that allows you to be the very best version of yourself.

Enjoy Imperfect Love at http://DrCarlaManly.com.  

Disclaimer: This podcast is purely educational and is not a replace for professional psychological support. In case of emergency, contact your nearest hospital or emergency hotline such as “911” (US), “999” (UK), or “112” (EU).

Where your late night thoughts go to rest. Monday through Saturday, listeners call in to share whatever's on their mind before bed. On Sunday, we take a deep dive on one of the week’s topics. What’s on your mind tonight? 904-NIGHTLY (904-644-4859) and thenightly@hatch.co 

Hosted by Matt Bragg and Greta Johnsen.

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It’s the early 1970s, and a young British family is attempting to sail around the world when catastrophe strikes.p>

The Robertsons have sold everything they own to embark on this trip. But their epic odyssey soon turns into a desperate fight for their lives in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 

Dougal and Lyn, their teenage son Douglas, 12-year-old twins Sandy and Neil, and young hitchhiker Robin find themselves hundreds of miles from land, with few supplies, no radio contact, and surrounded by sharks. 

Drifting in the vast emptiness, they must rely on their instincts and harness the elements to survive. Yet even with deadly predators circling, they discover that sometimes their worst enemy is...themselves. 

Adrift is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Blanchard House. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.

apple.co/Adrift

In the final days before judgment, an angelic advocate named David visits the condemned to confront the truth of their lives—unearthing buried sins, lost hopes, and the choices that will decide their eternal fate.

Created by Johnny Galvan 3.

In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do?

Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?

In Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad Abumrad—creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, and Dolly Parton's America—tells the story of one of the great political awakenings in music: how a classically trained 'colonial boy' traveled to America, in search of Africa, only to return to Nigeria and transform his sound into a battering ram against the state—creating a new musical language of resistance called Afrobeat.

For years, the world’s biggest stars made pilgrimages to Nigeria to experience Fela’s Shrine, the epicenter of his musical revolution. But when the mix of art and activism got too hot, the state pulled out its guns, and literally opened fire.

Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is an uncategorizable mix of oral history, musicology, deep dive journalism, and cutting edge sound design that takes listeners deep inside Fela’s life, music, and legacy.

Drawing from over 200 interviews with Fela Kuti’s family, friends, as well as scholars, activists, and luminaries like Burna Boy, Paul McCartney, Questlove, Santigold, and former President Barack Obama (just to name a few), Fela Kuti: Fear No Man journeys deep into the soul of Afrobeat to explore the transformative power of art and the role artists can play in this current moment of global unrest.

An Audible Original presented by Audible and Higher Ground. Produced by Western Sound and Talkhouse.

©2025 Higher Ground, LLC (P)2025 Audible Originals, LLC.

Using broken refrigerators, mattresses, and dishwashers, residents of Union Point Park barricade their tent city. And they fight for an extraordinary idea: their own plot of land, where they could live in community and set their own rules.

A Tiny Plot is a new 5-part series from KQED’s Snap Studios. Host and Reporter Shaina Shealy takes listeners inside an encampment in Oakland for an against-all-odds story about scarcity, community, and the complexity of building something new from the margins of a broken system. What happens when people who’ve been shut out of a system that has failed them decide to take the lead? Disaster, and unexpected beauty. 

Huge love & thanks to the entire cast from A Tiny Plot for sharing your worlds with us at Snap Judgment!

Menopause isn’t a moment, it’s the rest of your life. Hosted by leading OBGYN Dr. Sharon Malone, a perimenopause and menopause expert with over 30 years of experience, The Second Opinion with Dr. Sharon is where women take back the conversation on hormones and aging. 

Each week, Dr. Sharon will be joined by well known guests, board-certified experts, and women just like you, to tackle all things menopause– from joint ache, muscle pains, and heart health to brain fog, fertility, weight gain and more.

Hormone changes touch almost every aspect of women’s health, and Dr. Sharon is here to give you the right tools to reclaim the rest of your life. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Have health questions? Submit them here.

Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club is the ultimate book club for audiobook lovers. Hosted by Kal Penn, each episode invites you into the club, where iHeartPodcast hosts, celebrated authors, and very special guests get together to nerd out about the Audible titles they can’t stop listening to. From thrillers and comedy to reimagined classics and exclusive Audible Originals — you’ve heard the books, now hear the Earsay!

A podcast for people who don’t get out much and can’t handle it when they do.

A refuge for the clumsy and the awkward.

Join Bill Nighy to squander some time as he attempts to answer your questions and dilemmas without actually making things worse.

If you have questions about anything – from choosing the right shirt to how to hide at parties, please send us a voice-note via Instagram @illadvisedbybillnighy

or you can email us contactus@ill-advisedbybillnighy.com

There will also be a recommended book and a ‘playlist of the week’ and given that Bill is making this up as he goes along, who knows what other features might develop.

He would further like to add that he knows you have busy lives and wants you to feel free to ignore this podcast

Stay loose

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