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HEIDI PINCHAL: What you are seeing here
is a body a human anatomy exhibition that the body
has been preserved. They are actual human specimens
and they have been preserved through a
process called polymer impregnation. That process
makes the body stays exactly as they are in the
posses that they are now. It is a none toxic process
and basically it will last forever. We try to pose
our specimens so they can show you something
educationally about the body. How does the muscle
works, how do things interact. And so this is a
way, this is totally none toxic that it has no odor
to it at all. It will last forever so one specimen
will teach generations upon generations about
their body. And you can get great up close. Not
everything is behind glass, only the smaller
piece is. We try to give a beautiful museum like
environment, but we solely, we want and
encourage school children to come through and other
parents to have dialogue. When we first started
about this whole process of understanding the human
body, it was centuries ago and it was mostly artist
that brought that to our attention and we looked at
the works of Aristotle and Galleon. And then, we
looked at Leonardo Di Vinci and how did he study
these muscle structures. Dissection was something
that was not allowed during the time. It was
actually forbidden. So much of our knowledge
actually came from these great artists on how we
got our body structure. And all those great artist
took the knowledge and they put it into beautiful
forms that we could see. Everybody is different
color on the outside of their bodies, but once you
go down, one of the things we like to say is that
we're all pink on the inside. Doesn't matter if
we're brown, black, white on the outside, we're all
pink on the inside. And when you see that
everybody is the same, even almost our entire
digestive system. You know, a man that's six
feet all and myself, a foot shorter then that,
almost have the exact same digestive system as far as
how much fits into that little part of your body
as well so it always fascinates me to find out
that when you go and you look into the stomach and
you realize that it's not much bigger then your fist
and I want to know where did that turkey dinner go
all the time. We're depending on our partners
and our partners are the Anatomical Science and
Technology Foundation and they are a group of
doctors and Universities out of Hong Kong. These
specimens are on loans to us and only on loans and
our mission statement is about education. Education
and a little bit more education while you're
entertained hopefully. We actually divided up into
the system of the body, we try to take you from the
skin, which is the largest system of the body and we
try to bring you all the way down to the smallest
little system. And you can divide that up and the
study that for each system of the body. The human
body by itself is such a magnificently beautiful
creature and when you see it from underneath the
skin, go down layers and layers, you see how every
single part of it is so beautiful. I hope they
leave with A. a greater appreciation for what they
have been given because it is a beautiful piece. What
other computer could you take and take half of it
away and it would still function for you. That is
a beauty of the human body. And I hope that you
take away a better understanding of what you
can do to make your life better and a greater
appreciation of what this amazing and gorgeous
machine that you've been given. So we're like a
little mini museum that likes to travel the
global. But, know I really get a great privilege of
going around the world and educating people all about
themselves and getting to educate people that would
never ever have an opportunity to see this in
some of the places that we get to go so I
appreciative of it and very respectful and
reverent that I have this opportunity to work with
great guys.