05/25/2026
🎙️ Last weekend, The NYT Magazine published an aesthetically beautiful, interactive article, titled: “Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways.”
💥 The NYT said this about the piece: “It’s All Connected: We’ve known about two systems in the human body that circulate fluids” — The lymphatic and cardiovascular systems.
💥 “Now scientists think they may have come across a third…The discovery — a hidden pathway between two layers of tissue not know to connect in this way — was a surprise. It has far reaching implications for our understanding of the human body & for our health. Because that interstitial space doesn’t just exist between the skin & the fascia, researchers discovered. There are space like it throughout the body, forming pathways between organs, and allowing fluids, cells & molecules to move between them before re-entering the lymphatic & cardiovascular systems.
💥 Scientists call this the interstitium.
🙌🏼 Featured in the article & joining me on the podcast to discuss it in depth, is . He explains what the interstitium is, why it is important, how it works & how this marks the beginning of many exciting possibilities. He’s performed groundbreaking research on the interstitium, with a landmark study published in 2018 in Nature.
💥 He explains how this discovery, opens up promising possibilities in how the interstitium might inform the treatment of diabetes, gut health & cancer, among others.
💥 Interestingly, the interstitium may also begin to scientifically substantiate eastern modalities such as acupuncture, yoga & energy work.
💥 As it turns out, the interstitium is also found in other forms of life, like tiny freshwater invertebrates & plants. Perhaps we are all more alike and interconnected than we once realized.
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