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Diverse personal stories from around the world reveal how lives, passions and goals are facilitated by the human body's various complex systems.

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Season 1

  • Fuel
    7.5/1085 votes

    Fuel

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/12/2021

    Through the worlds of a religious faster, an ultra-marathon runner, a farmer and a young girl beating allergies, go deep into the world of the human gut, which processes the fuel our bodies need to keep going.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Defend
    7.5/1076 votes

    Defend

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/19/2021

    Look at a nature survivalist, rancher twins, a doctor who survived Ebola and the recipient of a cutting-edge cancer therapy to uncover the wildly advanced biology that keeps us alive against all odds.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Pulse
    7.2/1085 votes

    Pulse

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/5/2021

    Dive into the world of an ice climber, a bus driver, a woman in labor and a senior dance club to show how the human heart and the circulatory system power our physical and emotional lives and create the pulsing rhythm of our world.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sense
    7.2/1065 votes

    Sense

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/26/2021

    Explore the incredible universe inside each and every one of us. An examination of diverse personal stories from around the world reveals how our lives, passions and goals are powered by the amazing systems that define our biology as a species.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • React
    6.8/1079 votes

    React

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/2/2021

    Through the lens of a boxer, a first responder, a cell tower climber and a man with a bionic limb, go deep into the universe of the most powerful machine on earth: the human brain and the vast nervous system it controls.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Birth
    5.6/10104 votes

    Birth

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2021

    Go on a journey with parents who are preparing for babies to see how our bodies create and sustain new life. Through their stories, we learn about what is fundamentally shared and absolutely unique about the experience of birth.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown