Features · Learning Pod

See how your body works.

Short lessons in your room, in plain words. Each chapter has a 3D model you can turn, zoom and try: the heart and its arteries, the airways, a knee joint, the kidney’s tiny filters, the cells that turn food into energy.

Start free → The lessons
The Learning Pod on a tablet: how a knee joint works, with a 3D knee

How it works

Read it, turn it, try it.

  1. 1

    A few minutes a chapter

    Each lesson is a handful of short chapters, with the research behind each one a tap away.

  2. 2

    A model to try

    Turn the model, tap a label to see what it is, switch between the teaching and the realistic model, and move the sliders to see what changes.

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    A trophy to win

    Finish a lesson and pass its short quiz, and its trophy goes in your trophy cabinet. Your plans ask: have you done the lesson?

Inside the lessons

Things you can’t usually see.

The heart, from the Learning Pod
High blood pressure: the pump and the pipes
A knee, from the osteoarthritis lesson
Osteoarthritis: what “wear and tear” really means
An airway, from the COPD lesson
COPD: what it does to the airways
A small blood vessel and a nerve, from the type 2 diabetes lesson
Type 2 diabetes: how high sugar harms vessels and nerves
A kidney filter, from the kidney health lesson
Kidney health: a million tiny filters
Mitochondria, from the exercise lesson
Exercise: your cells’ power stations

The lessons

From your heart to your gut.

Exercise, sleep and diet first, in a “Start here” row at the top, then a lesson for each of the common long-term conditions. Ask Ernie about any of them and he brings up the page.

  • Maintaining good health
  • Exercise optimisation
  • High blood pressure
  • Cholesterol
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Pre-diabetes
  • Angina
  • Kidney health
  • Fatty liver
  • COPD
  • Asthma
  • Sleep apnoea
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Gout
  • Acid reflux
  • IBS
  • Low mood
  • Dementia prevention
  • Weight loss

Start learning today.

Start free → Ask Ernie