Discovery Life Channel

A boy who can't stop eating undergoes a series of operations to save his life; a young man who is more than 7-feet tall learns if he's still growing; a boy is born without eyes; Irish twins' muscles and flesh turn to bone; with bonus content.

A man with half a torso learns if his rare bone-eating disease is back; a young girl undergoes surgery to stop her facial tumor from choking her; a boy is born with half a face.

A man with cold-like symptoms loses his limbs and lips; a young girl has a prematurely fused skull; a boy with brittle bones and a rare skin condition gets life-changing surgery; a woman suffers from a disfiguring birthmark; with bonus content.

At age 58, Rose had almost given up and eaten herself to death, but it turned out her family needed her too much for her to go; now she has more than 400 pounds to lose if she wants to get healthy for them, and she's determined to do it.

A mother of two who is too ashamed of her size to be seen with her children; she is committed to regaining her confidence and being a proud mother.

Susan, 37-year-old woman, has never lived on her own because of her weight, is finally seeking help to get out on her own.

Devastated by two miscarriages due to her weight, Schenee is desperate to start a family and stop relying on her husband, Freddie, to take care of her; she hopes weight loss surgery will be able to fix her fertility issues as well as her marriage.

Shannon's husband loves her the way she is, but that may not help because she's 700 pounds and bedridden; Dr. Now knows it's not easy to break a toxic cycle of overfeeding and enabling, but that's what needs to happen if Shannon wants to live.

Shakyia was always chubby, but now she does not leave the house and makes no effort; her older sister rallies her to Houston to meet Dr. Now and lose weight, but she is in for a shock when her mother decides that caring for her is just too much.

With the support of his fiancé, Kathryn, Robert turns to Dr. Nowzaradan in a final, desperate attempt to save his life; he tries to reverse a lifelong food addiction that has left him bed-bound, saddled with grotesque lymphedema, and nearly 900-lbs.

After losing 250lbs, Nikki is on her way to skin surgery, but when a close friend dies from weight loss surgery, Nikki's progress is derailed by fears.

With her weight spiraling, Stephanie needs her mom's help to care for her three kids; she's at the point where she'll have to lose weight or risk not having the chance to see her kids grow up.

Through tough times, food has always been Tammy's friend; now she has gotten so big that her daughters and mother have moved home to care for her, and unless Dr. Now can get her to confront her grief, food might be her killer.

With her weight spiraling, Stephanie needs her mom's help to care for her three kids; she's at the point where she'll have to lose weight or risk not having the chance to see her kids grow up.

Through tough times, food has always been Tammy's friend; now she has gotten so big that her daughters and mother have moved home to care for her, and unless Dr. Now can get her to confront her grief, food might be her killer.

After losing 250lbs, Nikki is on her way to skin surgery, but when a close friend dies from weight loss surgery, Nikki's progress is derailed by fears.

Identical twins enlist Lisa's help to unlock the mystery of why they were placed for adoption; Chris hopes to fulfill the wishes of a deceased father by tracking down the first-born son he and his wife had placed for adoption.

A surprisingly troubled outcome with her birth mother prompts an adoptee to find her father, leading to life-changing truths; a woman tries to repair relationships with the biological father she just met and the father who raised her.

A woman enlists Lisa's help to find her birth mother, but unearths a 40-year-old secret in the process.

Chris and Lisa join forces in an attempt to solve the childhood mystery of why a woman was separated from her birth family at the age of two.

After a joyful reunion with the daughter he was forced to give up, Jon now struggles to maintain their relationship; high school sweethearts who placed their son up for adoption happily meet his adoptive parents and participate in his wedding.

Lisa hopes that locating a man's biological mother will finally allow him to overcome his lifelong struggle with abandonment; Chris locates a woman's only child and delivers the difficult details of her daughter's birth story.

Twins Kandi and Brandi have a combined weight of over 1,100 pounds and fear losing each other to obesity, so they decide to make a change together.

Erica regrets not keeping a promise to her mom and hopes her siblings will help, but they're reluctant based on her past failures.

When Travis gets too big to walk down the aisle, he promises to give his wife a proper wedding; he gains more weight, leaving Dr Now as Travis' only hope to lose weight and get the life he and his wife dreamed of having together.

For Milla Clark, after three years and five surgeries, success would mean beating the odds and becoming one of Dr. Nowzaradan's most impressive weight-loss patients, but failure would mean slipping back to the bedbound life.

Milla is dependent on her children and seeks to lose enough weight to be able to walk; Charity is mired in a deep depression, while her daughter, Charly, battles a food addiction; they strive to turn things around and reach their goal weight.

Thederick has become housebound from eating and only goes outside to greet the ice cream man; after a recent hospital scare, it's finally clicked that if Dr. Now's program doesn't work for him, then nothing will.

Milla is dependent on her children and seeks to lose enough weight to be able to walk; Charity is mired in a deep depression, while her daughter, Charly, battles a food addiction; they strive to turn things around and reach their goal weight.