Our body as a "high-performance machine" - How resilient are we?

The human body is adaptable, resilient, and astonishingly capable - truly a "high-performance machine". Humans have always sought to test their limits. But how resilient are we really? This film explores the tension between our bodies' impressive capabilities, and the moments when they clearly say 'enough is enough.' How resilient is the human body really? Where are its limits, and what happens when we cross them?

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