Human Body Course

Human Body Advanced — 35 Lessons

How the world is powered and built, explained simply. Oil, gas and petrol prices, electricity and nuclear power, batteries and solar, water and desalination, railways, bridges and giant megaprojects.

1 Short

Why Study Glands? The Body's Hidden Factories

An introduction to the tiny factories that keep the body running.

2 Short

Hormones: The Body's Silent Chemical Messengers

How chemical signals travel through the blood to give instructions.

3 Short

The Master Lab: How the Body Controls Its Glands

The pituitary and brain team that supervises the endocrine system.

4 Short

Oil Glands: Natural Protection for Your Skin

Sebaceous glands, healthy skin and why teenagers get spots.

5 Short

Wax Glands: The Watchman at the Ear

Why ear wax exists and why you should not poke it out.

6 Short

Mucous Glands: Tiny Guards in Every Passage

The slippery layer protecting your nose, throat and gut.

7 Short

Why Do We Cry? The Story of Tear Glands

Tears that clean, tears that protect and tears that come with feelings.

8 Short

Mammary Glands: A World Without Milk

The gland that defines mammals and feeds every newborn.

9 Short

The Code of Life: DNA Inside Every Cell

The instruction book copied into almost every cell of your body.

10 Short

The Brain: The Most Mysterious Organ

Eighty-six billion cells that make thought, memory and personality.

11 Short

The Heart: The Body's Most Powerful Pump

A muscle the size of a fist that never takes a day off.

12 Short

Nerves: The Living Wires Inside Us

Electrical cables that carry signals at astonishing speed.

13 Short

The Spinal Cord: A Highway of Light

The protected cable linking brain and body — and why posture matters.

14 Short

The Living Highway: Circulation Around the Body

How blood delivers oxygen and collects waste, non-stop.

15 Short

Arteries and Veins: The Body's Transport System

Two kinds of pipe with two very different jobs.

16 Short

The Breath of Life: Lungs and Breathing

Twenty thousand breaths a day and the muscle that drives them.

17 Short

The Abdomen: The Grand Trunk of Life

The busy region holding digestion, filtering and storage organs.

18 Short

Surprising Facts About the Gallbladder

A small green bag that helps you digest fatty food.

19 Short

The Immune System: A Silent Army of Protection

Cells that patrol, remember and defend you every single day.

20 Short

Skin: The Living Blanket of Protection

The largest organ you own, and how to look after it.

21 Short

Hair Part 1: Dead Tissue That Still Protects

How hair grows, what it is made of and why it matters.

22 Short

Hair Part 2: Colour, Loss and Care

Why hair greys, why it falls, and simple healthy habits.

23 Short

Beauty, Identity and Uniqueness

Fingerprints, features and why no two people are the same.

24 Short

Your Eyes Part 1: Doorways to the World

How light becomes a picture inside your head.

25 Short

Your Eyes Part 2: Protecting Your Sight

Screens, sunlight and daily habits that keep eyes healthy.

26 Short

Eyes: Priceless Gems of the Body

Why sight is treasured and how vision problems are corrected.

27 Short

Thirty-Two Teeth: The First Gift of Life

How teeth are built, what damages them and how to keep them.

28 Short

Hands: Nothing Is Possible Without Them

Twenty-seven bones, fine control and the human grip.

29 Short

What Can You Do Without Hands?

Adaptation, assistive tools and respect for different abilities.

30 Short

Our Knees: The Silent Sufferers

The joint that carries your weight for a lifetime.

31 Short

The Foot: Foundation of Our Life

Twenty-six bones that balance and carry the whole body.

32 Short

The Reproductive System Explained

A clear, science-based introduction to how new life begins.

33 Short

Reproduction: How Life Continues

Cells, inheritance and the continuation of every species.

34 Short

Ovaries and Testes: Glands That Shape Growth

The reproductive glands and the hormones they release.

35 Short

Caring for the Ageing Brain and Nerves

Neural changes in later life and how families can help.

Human Body Advanced Certificate

Finish all 35 human body lessons and pass the human body exam with 70% or higher to earn your own Human Body Advanced certificate.

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