Dissectible Me 5 minute anatomy

An introduction to the musculoskeletal system. What are your bones & muscles all about and what are their functions? Spoiler alert: it's not all about locomotion and support!  

A brief whistle-stop tour of your endocrine system.  The glands, hormones, and what is a feedback loop or the hypothalamic-pituitary axis all about. Future episodes will dedicate 5 minutes to each of these wonderful glands adding detail and clarity. 

Okay, grab yourself a coffee and prepare for what is our toughest challenge yet....an introduction to the nervous system in 5 minutes. We will cover its basic anatomy. The central vs the peripheral nervous system. The somatic vs the visceral system, and the sympathetic vs the parasympathetic systems. 86 BILLION NEURONS!    

This week we will talk about the largest organ of the body.....The integumentary system, aka your skin, hair, nails, and sweat glands. Despite feeling like it has more layers than an onion or ogre for that matter, the skin can be broadly divided into 2 layers, the epidermis, and dermis. Here we discuss a basic introduction to these layers with more detailed dedicated podcasts to come for each.   ...

This week we talk about the body's 'portable salty sea system' that you carry around in your abdomen, also known as the urinary tract or renal system.  An introduction to the anatomy of the kidneys, ureters, bladder & urethra.

In today's episode, we travel through the human gastrointestinal tract at 0.2mph, aka the speed of a giant tortoise. On our journey, we circumnavigate the folds of the plicae circulares and wave adieu to the vermiform appendix, as we cover a basic introduction of the GI tract in 5 minutes. 

In this episode, we blaze through an introduction to the basics of the respiratory system. We cover; the lungs, respiratory tree, and the underlying anatomy of common pathology.  We will revisit many of these areas again in more detail in the future to add layers of knowledge and explanation.

In this episode, we will cover an introduction to the cardiovascular system.  The heart, blood vessels, and blood. Including the principles of what happens when it all goes wrong.     

A very brief introduction to Dissectible Me, our 5-minute podcast series on Human anatomy.  This episode is perhaps the only one we will ever publish where we are way under our 5-minute target.