Season 1 · Episode 1
Once fringe but now at the center of billion-dollar multilevel marketing companies, plant extracts can help us cope with anxiety. Are they a remedy?
Sexual healing releases energy and improves intimacy, advocates say. But accusations of abuse and cultural appropriation have dogged the practice.
Bodybuilding is just one reason why some adults are pumped to drink so-called "liquid gold." Yet is breast milk sharing considered safe — or ethical?
Fasting has vaulted beyond weight loss as biohackers have used it to optimize body and mind and enhance healing. But the practice holds real dangers.
Once reserved for Indigenous shamans, this powerful hallucinogen draws those hoping to unlock trauma and quell addiction. Can it also cause psychosis?
Expensive and labor-intensive bee venom promises to soften wrinkles and treat chronic Lyme disease. But do the risks outweigh the rewards?
In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.
2013
MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
2003
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2006
Series examining how what we eat can change our lives.
2007
Dr Emma Craythorne and her team of experts are on a mission to solve complex skin conditions. They help people whose lives have been impeded by devastating disorders and they hope Emma and their team have the solution.
2019
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Steph McGovern reveal the easy life fixes we can all use to dramatically improve our diet, fitness and mental well-being.
2020
Host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted.
2015
2018
Myf Warhurst hosts this two-part special, following nine older Australians over a 12-week experiment exploring the power of dance for people over the age of 65.
2022
The story of the NHS in unprecedented times.
2017
Medical issues, including obesity, diet and aging, are discussed.
2002
2021
Examining the quality crisis in our health-care system and exploring innovative solutions, this four-part PBS documentary provides a comprehensive look at the state of medicine in America today. Topics include patient safety, medical and medication mistakes, hospital-acquired infections, family-centered care and effective management of chronic disease. Moving personal stories highlight the problems and the people who are working to solve them.
Science journalist and qualified doctor Michael Mosley along with a team of doctors investigate health issues and provide definitive answers.
Did democracy actually originate in Greece? Was the plague the worst epidemic of all time? And did we really work harder in the past than we do today? Is it true that ...? questions what we think we know and takes another look at history.
2025
In this groundbreaking science series, Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur takes us through the processes some of the most deadly threats use to attack the human body, as well as the strategies that doctors and other specialists take in trying to turn the tide and save lives.