This BBC Horizon documentary takes a look into Homeopathy, a controversial way of healing diseases which has been around for about 200 years. It includes using the substances which make you sick but diluting them many times with water and then ingesting them. Users claim that the healing properties of homeopathic medicine is way more effective than normal medicine. The problem here is that scientists believe that homeopathy is utter nonsense due to its unrealistic premise as a whole. So why is it so popular, …Watch Documentary»»

Prolonged, sustained, excessive stress and your similar response to it, not only causes deterioration of your brain, but it also compromises your immune system; your ability to fight off diseases.

Thousands of years ago, we mostly lived until we either starved, were accidentally poisoned or we were eaten by another animal. Now, we have the distinct ability to slowly kill ourselves over a period of

More and more of us are able to live over a decade, but how exactly is this possible? This Channel 4 documentary introduces to us the oldest people in the world, who are all way beyond 100 years old. The journalists visit them and ask them about their past lives, letting them reflect on it and telling us how much of it has changed over the past decade. We will also find out just how they managed to become this old, and whether they can …Watch Documentary»»

Living forever or staying forever young may be the ultimate dream of some people, and not many live long enough to reach their 100th year of age. Many people turn to science and surgeons to live as long as they possibly can, this BBC Horizon documentary however takes us to remote places on earth where people live longer than anyone else. These people have learned to naturally increase their lifespan without using

Join Kathy Sykes in this BBC documentary series on a personal journey of exploration into the controversial world of alternative therapies. Are there lessons for mainstream medicine to be learned from these increasingly popular therapies?
Reflexology is becoming more and more popular, especially in Britain. Reflexologists claim that by massaging and rubbing your feet they can rid your body of all kinds of diseases. They say the sole of a person’s foot is a map of their body with so-called reflexive points representing

Join Kathy Sykes in this BBC documentary series on a personal journey of exploration into the controversial world of alternative therapies. Are there lessons for mainstream medicine to be learned from these increasingly popular therapies?
In this episode Kathy investigates the world of Hypnotherapy, used by many people all over the world promising many things

Join Kathy Sykes in this BBC documentary series on a personal journey of exploration into the controversial world of alternative therapies. Are there lessons for mainstream medicine to be learned from these increasingly popular therapies?
Many people around the world meditate. Some do it out of religious beliefs, others just to relax and relieve stress. But is

The world of medicine has always been looking for a miracle treatment for yet uncurable diseases, most of them genetic defects like Parkinsons, Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and different kinds of Cancer. Nowadays, stem cell research might prove to be an answer to this problem. By using stem cells, they may grow into any kind of cell needed, replacing broken or lacking cell in the right

In this BBC horizon documentary,Dr. Kevin Fong studies an innovative technique of extreme cooling that is being used to bring people back from the dead. Inside the surgery room the patient´s heart is stopped till the point that his brain shows no neuronal activity. Once done, there is virtually no difference between the patient´s and a dead body except