
National Geographic: The Incredible Human Body
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- 2002
- 60 min
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Narrator:
The human body...A heart that will beat
Lungs that deliver breath
through 1,500 miles of airways.
All superbly orchestrated
And billions of miles
of genetic information,
In combinations that
make each of us unique.
one incredible human body...
Every day it takes us
on a miraculous journey,
Pushing the frontiers,
meeting awesome challenges...
Defying the boundaries
of human achievement.
A basketball star redefines
the limits of peak performance.
PJ Brown:
I thinkif I could look inside my body,
you'd probably see our heart
just beating a lot faster.
Narrator:
A childless couple challengesthe odds to create life.
Mark Sauer:
I would say she has at least
a 50-50 chance
of getting pregnant,
but you just don't know going
Narrator:
A schoolteacherbattles the death
that lurks deep
within his brain.
Frederick Meyer:
How serious is it?
The tumor's gonna kill him.
So it's deadly serious.
Lisa Toenies:
It's like I said goodbye
because I didn't know what
Narrator:
These are thebut they take place
inside ourselves,
But now we can.
Today, awesome new technology
allows us to peer inside
to see a brain think,
a heart beat, a life begin,
to discover
the boundless potential
of the incredible human body.
Donald Coffey:
The human body...
It's mind-boggling to see
how the whole system
is integrated, in a sense.
The heart beats. The brain
is firing electrical signals.
Your eyes are capable of
catching all these wavelengths
and storing the light,
retrieving the information.
If you approached me
as an engineer
and said, "make me a system"
"that can retrieve that kind
of information of sound, light,"
"Put it with memory, for
everything you've ever seen"...
This is an amazing
piece of equipment.
And it can all be stored
which can all come together and form
this beautiful snowflake called a human,
with each one of them
amazingly different.
Narrator:
From a cluster of cells,
the journey to life
every quarter of a second
somewhere in the world.
To understand the amazing
results of that journey,
we must begin at the beginning,
the miracle of conception.
For some couples,
that seemingly commonplace
miracle seems impossible.
Today, reproductive science -
marrying skill and knowledge
to the magic of nature--
can make the impossible happen.
And here it will provide
a wondrous window
into the beginning
of human life.
Inez:
My husband and Ihave been together 11 years
and we...we were trying,
but not trying.
And it just dawned on us one day
that something
might be wrong, you know,
that I'm not getting pregnant,
and we decided to investigate.
Sauer:
What I want to dois spend most of the time
talking about in vitro
with you guys...
Narrator:
Dr. Mark Sauerdoesn't claim to make miracles,
but about once a week
his fertility team
will help to bring a baby
into the world
through in-vitro fertilization,
or IVF.
With dr. Sauer's help,
Inez and Darryl Pearson
will have a 50-50 chance
at creating a new life.
IVF really is
a natural process,
even though
because it allows us
to put sperm and egg together
and create an embryo,
which is no different
than what happens in nature.
Narrator:
But unlike in nature, remarkableaccess to dr. Sauer's laboratory
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