Horizon · SEASON 50
The Truth About Looking Young
Episode 1 · 2012-07-23

- Documentary
Episode overview
Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is possible to make your skin look younger without surgery. She discovers the latest research about how the foods we eat can protect our skin from damage, and how a chemical found in a squid's eye is at the forefront of a new sun protection cream. She also finds out how sugar in our blood can make us look older, and explores an exciting new science called glycobiology which promises a breakthrough in making us look younger.
60 minutes
Season 50 episodes
1. The Truth About Looking Young2012-07-23
2. Mission to Mars2012-07-30
3. Eat, Fast and Live Longer2012-08-06
4. How Big Is the Universe?2012-08-27
5. How Small Is the Universe?2012-09-03
6. Defeating the Superbugs2012-09-10
7. The Creative Brain: How Insight Works2013-03-14
8. How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery2013-03-21
9. The Truth about Taste2013-03-28
10. The Age of Big Data2013-04-04
11. The Secret Life of the Cat2013-06-13
12. Little Cat Diaries2013-06-14
13. Fracking: The New Energy Rush2013-06-19
14. Swallowed by a Black Hole2013-06-26
15. What Makes us Human?2013-07-03
16. The Truth About Personality2013-07-10