Documentary Description
In the final episode of Inside The Human Body, Michael Mosley reveals
the ingenious ways in which your body defends itself against a hostile
world - where sunlight shatters your DNA and every breath contains
microbes that can kill.
We meet Cristian, a bull jumper whose muscles give him the strength
to avoid a violent death, three-year-old Rowan whose internal army
fights off the flu virus, and Johnny who gets injured almost every week
to earn his living, relying upon his body's remarkable ability to heal
And when injuries are too severe to be repaired, we see how surgeons
use medical expertise to exploit the body's natural powers of healing.
Richard Edwards is filmed having his damaged hands cut off and replaced
with someone else's - the first time something this radical has ever
been attempted.
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