Not on the list? Search anything — cancer, weight loss, diabetes, menopause. The series below are just starting points.
How the body works
The plumbing and wiring, explained in plain terms. Worth knowing before you try to work out what has gone wrong with it.
6 topics →How ailments and diseases form
What is actually happening when something goes wrong — and what that means for how it is treated.
7 topics →How medicine works
Why one thing helps and another does nothing — and why the same product suits one person and not another.
6 topics →How exercise works
What movement is doing to muscle, joint and heart — including what causes the aches afterwards.
5 topics →How food works
How what you eat is broken down and used — and where it genuinely interacts with medication.
6 topics →Name your search
Anything not in the five above — cancer, weight loss, diabetes, menopause, a condition you have just been told you have. Same trusted medical channels.
Search any topic →These explain, they do not diagnose. A video about gallstones is not a statement that you have gallstones. For anything about your own situation, ask the Health Assistant, speak to a pharmacist, or call HealthLink BC free on 811.
If something on this list is one a pharmacist in BC can assess and prescribe for, the assistant will tell you so and point you to one. Videos play in privacy-enhanced mode and we do not store what you search for.