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Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it?
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey thinks that aging is a disease. The good news? It is a CURABLE disease. Aubrey believes that our whole ‘aging is a good thing’ culture is dangerous for our health.
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People & Power: The Cancer Sell
People & Power: The Cancer Sell takes viewers on a journey to Tijuana, Mexico to explore the many alternative cancer therapy clinics. Sarah Macdonald leads the way in this investigative documentary. She discovers their are several online supplement stores and cancer chat rooms. 25 minutes.
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The Beautiful Truth
Dr. Max Gerson claims to be able to cure cancer. The cure? Diet. Is this documentary an infomercial or the future of medicine? You decide. The Beautiful Truth has won many awards and been featured at film festivals. Yet, we can’t help but feel that there’s something not quite right about the good doctor’s research.
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The Price of Life
On a finite budget, the National Health Service cannot afford to offer every treatment on the market, so how is it decided which medications should be made available?
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Woke Up In A Morgue
This documentary follows those who suffer from the rare disease named Cataplexy. Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone.
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The Girl With A New Face
13-year-old Marlie is dying because of a rare genetic condition known as fibrous dysplasia. Marlie’s bones are transforming into a huge growth, or lesion, that distorts her face, stretches her skin, crushes her windpipe and forces her eyes apart. This is her story.
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So What If My Baby Is Born Like Me
The film follows Jono who has Treacher Collins syndrome and his girlfriend Laura as they go on a quest to find out the options available to them should they decide to start a family.
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Can’t Stop Eating
A documentary about people who suffer from Prader-Willi Syndrome. This rare disorder makes the sufferer unable to control their eating habits. If left alone to their own devices, they would eat themselves to death.
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A Hundred Orgasms A Day
This documentary tells the story of three women tormented 24 hours a day by the need for orgasms. They suffer from the rare disease Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS). It is a little understood neurological condition where women suffer from constant uncontrollable genital arousal.
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Dying to be Thin
The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.
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Thin
Thin is the story of four women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in South Florida.
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Mystery Diagnosis
Mystery Diagnosis is a series of stories which tell the tales of patients unfortunate enough to have very rare diseases. The stories are told through intimate interviews with the patients themselves, their families, friends and doctors.
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