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Inside the Living Body from Birth to Old Age: A Journey through a Human Life

29th ANNUAL EMMY AWARD 2008 - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design and Art Direction

From the producers of the critically acclaimed In the Womb series, comes Inside the Living Body. Tracing one everywomans story, using cutting-edge miniature endoscopic HD cameras and state of the art CT scanning techniques we delve deep inside the body to shed new light on how and why our bodies do what they do. Our bodies - a universe of astonishing structures, miracles of microscopic design. We embark on an incredible voyage through flesh and blood. From first breath to last, this is a life story told from a unique perspective Inside the Living Body.

From our first cry to our last breath, our bodies undergo a continuous second-by-second transformation. Every move we make and every outside stimulus triggers a reaction through the skin, bones, organs, muscles and cells. We breathe, on average, 700 million breaths in a lifetime; an adult skeleton is replaced every seven to 10 years; we shed as many as 30,000 dead skin cells every minute; and the food we eat travels 30 feet (9 meters) on its journey through our bodies. Now, the National Geographic Channel (NGC) takes you beneath the skin to reveal how our bodies evolve from birth to old age, and the amazing biological systems we need to thrive.

Using milestones to examine the everyday workings of a living, functioning body in ways not seen on television until now. Cutting-edge miniature endoscopic HD cameras delve deep inside the mouth, throat, heart, lungs, digestive tract, brain and reproductive organs to shed new light on how and why our bodies do what they do. Stunning photography in this two-hour special reveals universal moments in human development at the most minute level, providing insight into both our own individual metamorphosis and our shared human experiences.

Inside the Living Body a window on how we grow, develop and age as its never been seen before. In conjunction with award-winning special effects designer David Barlow and using the latest incredible SOMATOM scanning technology, we will take the audience inside the human body at all the crucial stages of its development and provide a hitherto unseen view of this fantastic interior world...

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New York Post These precious moments and more make National Geographic's truly remarkable "Inside the Living Body" a show you must, must watch. Do it with the whole family - the way people used to do in the olden days before there were 1,500 channels. "The Living Human Body" is a thing of astonishing wonder from opener to closer

Time Out New York Even before Living Body gets down to plumbing our depths, the documentary establishes itself as the stoner TV event of the year .

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Informational and easy to understand. Outstanding graphics. Worth more than the money I paid for.

I watched it with my children ages 8-16 and found it to be a great educational tool.

Extremely rich, state of the art photography/cinematograrphy!!! The narration is well executed as well. A+

I teach school in L.A. and this is a great video to make the students think and ask questions. You can show the entire video at once or just show sections at a time. The video is Awsome but make sure you watch it before lunch. Some of the video might be difficult for people with weak stomachs.

I watched this on NatGeo two years ago and was excited to see it for sale .....This is so informative and interesting that my 5 and 4 year olds were sitting and watching it with me. I look forward to showing parts of it in my HS level Biology class that I teach. Really amazing footage, CGI, of the processes occurring in the body. Truly an amazing machine.