Synopsis
Dr Alice Roberts explores the benefits of exercise on the human body and takes part in an exercise challenge to examine the effects of old age on our fitness levels.
- Programme: Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young
- Series: 2
- Episode: 08: The Whole Body
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2008
- Biology
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