World's Most Extraordinary People

In this first episode, we meet a girl whose heart has formed outside her ribcage, a man who can spend nine minutes underwater without taking a breath, a woman who is growing a second skeleton, and a paralyzed man who is regaining movement thanks to a chip implanted into his brain that can "read" his brain signals.

In this episode, we take a look at the human body's amazing capacity for survival. We meet a man who injects himself with deadly snake venom, a woman who leads a normal life with only half a brain, a girl who collapses 50 times a day and the only man in the world to be completely cured of HIV.

This episode, we meet a man who feels no pain, a woman who can smell Parkinson's disease, a man who can remember every face he has ever seen and a survivor of a head injury who woke up to find he could suddenly play the piano. These remarkable cases are shedding new light on one of the most mysterious parts of the human body: the brain.

This episode, we meet a girl with two hearts, a man who can sing two notes at once, a woman who can bend in amazing ways, a girl who is allergic to everything, and a man who can run 350 miles without stopping. These remarkable cases reveal the secret inner workings of our bodies, the ultimate piece of natural engineering.

In this episode, we uncover the stories of a man with bones as dense as granite, a girl whose arm won't stop growing, and a woman who gets lost in her own home.

In this episode, Weston uncovers the cases of an engineer who fixed his own heart, a toddler whose bones were repaired before he was even born, and a girl whose immune system attacked her own brain. We meet a man who can taste words and find out how his condition is helping develop new ways to enable blind people to navigate and even recognize colors. And we encounter a man who was immobilized by MS but can now cycle and scuba-dive thanks to a pioneering new treatment that has reversed his disease.