The World's Most Extraordinary People

Explore the unbelievable: meet a girl whose heart has formed outside her ribcage, a man who can spend nine consecutive minutes underwater, a woman growing a second skeleton, and a paralysed man regaining movement thanks to a brain chip implant.

Take a look at the human body's amazing capacity for survival. Meet a man who injects himself with snake venom, a woman who lives normally with half a brain, a girl who collapses 50 times a day, and the only man in the world completely cured of HIV.

Delve into cases that shed new light on the brain. From a woman who can smell Parkinson's to a man who remembers every face he’s seen and a head injury survivor who can suddenly play piano, these cases help unlock a mysterious part of the human body.

Our bodies are finely-built pieces of natural engineering. Explore cases that reveal the secret inner workings of our bodies including a girl with two hearts, a man who can sing two notes at once, and a woman who can bend in amazing ways.

Uncover stories of medical oddities. We meet a man with bones as strong as granite, a woman who became pregnant with twins in two separate wombs, a girl whose arm won't stop growing, and a woman who gets lost in her own home.

Discover amazing technological medical feats, like a reversal treatment for multiple sclerosis and colour recognition for the blind. Meet the patients and scientists behind the cases and learn how, thanks to modern medicine, people are leading new lives.