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ORGANIZER:The Royal Institution of Great Britain
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DESCRIPTION:Join Hugh Montgomery\, skydiver\, high-altitude mountaineer\, i
 ntensive care doctor for this repeat of one the 2007 Christmas Lectures\, B
 ack from the brink: the science of survival. 
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\nLife on Earth may have b
 egun 4 billion years ago\, but humans appeared only 130\,000 years ago. Wit
 h such a long period in research and development\, it isn't surprising that
  the human body is so amazingly complex - far more complex than any state-o
 f-the-art racing car.
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\nBut just like a petrol engine\, humans use oxyge
 n to burn fuels and release the energy which powers each function in every 
 cell. So how do we get the oxygen from the air to the cell? In this lecture
  we'll find out how this happens\, even at the top of the world.
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\nWe'll
  look at the airways that carry the oxygen\, and the rib-and-muscle bellows
  which drive air through them. We shall look at the lung and how it passes 
 the oxygen on to the blood\, and the cells there which snatch and hold that
  oxygen. And we'll find out how the heart pumps these cells around the body
 \, and examine the blood vessels that carry them. 
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\nFinally\, we'll hea
 r from mountaineers who have climbed Mount Everest\, where there is three-t
 imes less oxygen than at sea level\, and see what happens to their bodies w
 hen they struggle to stand at the very top of the world.
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\n*_
 Hugh Montgomery_*
\nHugh Montgomery is a senior lecturer in Cardiovascular 
 Genetics at UCL in London. He began his research in 1993\, work which has f
 ocused on the genetics of health and\, in particular\, the response to exer
 cise. He discovered the first gene for human fitness in 1998\, and has sinc
 e identified others. Hugh is also a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine\,
  and is applying his genetic knowledge to the critically ill in a quest for
  cures.
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SUMMARY:Peak performance
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