Length3h 54m
About this audiobook
RAGUS: The Sweet War Inside the Body turns the human body into a crime scene—and sugar is only the beginning.
Through Vernon Snell’s Poetic Cinema, Ragus follows the evidence into the brain, bloodstream, pancreas, liver, kidneys, heart, gut, nerves, memory, hormones, sleep, pain, desire, and survival. Speaking organs, investigators, science, history, and street knowledge collide in a darkly funny investigation of what happens when the body carries years of stress, habits, environment, biology, and hidden pressure.
Rather than reducing health to willpower or blame, Ragus asks a deeper question: What happened to the body before the body became the problem?
Part satire, part science, part philosophy, and part human testimony, this is an investigation into sweetness, survival, and the complicated machinery keeping us alive.
Turn the sweetness around. Follow the evidence backward.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry, Education and Learning
Length3 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Copyright and Publication Notice
2Dedication
3Epigraph
4Before the Investigation
5A Note from Vernon Snell
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6Listening Edition Note
7Case File 1: The Night The Body Called An Emergency Meeting
8Case File 2: The Trial Of Desire
9Case File 3: The Kidney Twins Filed For Overtime
10Case File 4: The Warehouse That Never Closed
11Case File 5: The Heart Demanded A Lawyer
12Case File 6: Dr. Dopamine Was Not A Drug Dealer
13Case File 7: Sleep Was Fired For Sleeping On The Job
14Case File 8: Pain Was Told It Was All In His Head
15Case File 9: The Fire Department That Forgot To Go Home
16Case File 10: The Pancreas Was Accused Of Losing The Keys
17Case File 11: The Gut Put The Brain On Speakerphone
18Case File 12: The Thermostat Was Accused Of Having An
19Case File 13: The Mouth Was The First Crime Scene
20Case File 14: The Eyes Saw The Damage Before The Mirror Did
21Case File 15: The Wound Missed Its Deadline
22Case File 16: The Muscles Were Charged With Laziness
23Case File 17: Memory Misplaced The Evidence
24Case File 18: The Bedroom Had Too Many Doctors
25Case File 19: Every Organ Brought Receipts
26Case File 20: The Body Was Never The Only Crime Scene
27After the Investigation
28Findings of the Investigation
29Questions Ragus Leaves with the Reader
30Notes on History, Science, and Interpretation
31About the Ragus Series
32Creator of Poetic Cinema
33About Poetic Cinema Studio
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