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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-th… Nestled in the tissues of your neck is a small, unassuming organ that wields enormous p

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-a-wound… Our skin is the largest organ in our bodies, with a surface area of about 20 square fee

Ashkan Fardost “A Cure for No Cures – The Next Generation of Medicine” at TEDxBerlin (http://www.tedxberlin.de) Ashkan received his

Click here for view full lesson. We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping j

Liz Mullinar is the Founder of Heal For Life Foundation. In 2000 she was awarded the inaugural Australian Humanitarian of the Year Award. In 2009 she

Professor Doctor Ben Witteman is gastrointestinal liver physician at Gelderse Vallei Hospital and associate professor Nutrition and gut health in inte

Michelle Barnes explains how diagnosing her unsolved illness created new opportunities in the global health research response to the current Ebola and

Can a person be “cured” of Type 2 Diabetes? Dr. Sarah Hallberg provides compelling evidence that it can, and the solution is simpler than

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-fad-diet… Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to

click here for view full lesson. We have over 600 muscles in our bodies that help bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. Your muscles also ne

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-… Water is essentially everywhere in our world, and the average human is composed of betw

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-microbi… As we walk through our daily environments, we’re surrounded by exotic creatures that ar

Vera Gorbunova concentrates in particular her researches on the naked rat-mole, an underground rodent of East Africa who can live up to 10 times longe

Our guts are packed with tiny bacteria–some that help and some that harm. The “bad bugs” that cause diarrheal infections kill millio

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-your… After drinking a few glasses of water on a hot day, you might be struck with a sudden &

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-power-o… The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapie