TV presenter Dr Michael Mosley will eat black pudding made from his own blood for a new documentary . In a variety of tests , Dr Mosley will take an in-depth look at blood for a medical series on BBC Four . He will undergo six experiments on his own blood , including injecting it with snake venom to see how it can clot within seconds and starving it of oxygen . Scroll down for video . In a new BBC show , Dr Michael Mosley ( pictured ) will taste a black pudding made from his own blood . The Wonderful World of Blood , which features specialist photography to look at blood 'as never seen before ' , is one of several new science shows announced today . Dr Mosley will also chart the journey from single cell to human being in 9 Months That Made You for BBC Two . In the show , he will look at the 'minute-by-minute , hour-by-hour ' development of a baby in the first 280 days of life from a single cell . The series will examine the moment the face forms , the first beat of the heart and the day the nerves set off their first signals . Previously , Dr Mosley , a former City banker , has explored the benefits of high intensity exercise and intermittent fasting . He was credited with popularising the 5:2 diet via the Eat , Fast , and Live Longer documentary . This involves fasting for two days a week and then unconstrained eating the other five days . The diet has since been followed by celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston , Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez . In his most recent show , Oxford university educated Dr Mosley looked at the world of parasites and deliberately infested himself with them . The BBC screened a Horizon documentary , The Nine Months That Made You , in 2011 , which looked at how much of a human being 's health has been determined by the time we get out of the womb . The presenter will undergo six experiments on his own blood for the upcoming BBC4 programme . Michael will discovers how blood tastes , when , in a television first , he eats black pudding from his own blood . Elsewhere , TV presenter Dr George McGavin inspects a 350-year-old oak tree in Wytham Woods , near Oxford , in 'forensic detail ' over a whole year . Other programmes include Natural Born Hustlers presented by wildlife expert Chris Packham , on how animals use optical illusions , camouflage and mimicry to stay alive . The documentary will feature 'cross-dressing birds , a lizard which fakes its own death and two-timing monkeys ' .
Dr Michael duck can eat black blood from own blood for BBC4 show . Will have performed experiments on his own blood , without starving it of blood . Wonderful World of ducks one of hundreds of upcoming BBC science shows .