Body Worlds: Pulse

[0:00]Body Worlds, the exhibition of real people generated controversy and interest when it first arrived in Los Angeles back in 2004. Now a newer and larger and more interactive exhibit is on the way. KTLA 5's Gail Anderson is at the California Science Center with an exclusive preview of Body Worlds Pulse. It shows us and teaches us how we tick. We're with President Jeffrey Rudolph. These plastination people, uh pieces, this was a real person shows us what happens when we take care of ourselves and when we don't. Right. These are two different people. The one on the left is a person of normal weight and you can see the abdominal wall and the back and and then the internal organs. The person on the right was obese, um and you can see the fat. This is again the same abdominal wall that you see there. You can see the layers of fat on the front, but not just the front. This is the back and you can see again that and perhaps most surprising the the fat invades the whole body. So this is the internal organs and the inside the abdominal cavity and you can see the fat invades all the organs and that where you see a lot of open space in the stomach and the like. Here, you see fat everywhere and that compromises our body's ability to function. In addition to the plastinets, it also talks about how we behave. We're here in front of the uh area that's described as up in smoke. Here is a healthy lung, doctor. Exactly, this is the healthy lung. You might see some tiny dark sports, but this is uh absolutely normal if you are living in a city. So we inhale also pollution. This does not look real. That was really the result of very heavy smoking, but nonetheless, if you only smoke 20 cigarettes a day, you will inhale in a year this amount of tar that you see in this little cup. That's tar. That is tar and it is really showing you what you are doing to your body. I guess you would not be interested to put this into your body, but seeing this it really makes a difference. We see how why lung cancer is so deadly here. Exactly, lung cancer is one of the biggest danger when you smoke over a long term. You see that this is a smoker's lung. You can see all the dark spots, but the lower area also where the arrows are visible. This is solid tissue from a tumor growth. Body Worlds Pulse opens to the public Saturday, May 20th in Exposition Park.