05/21/2026
fascinating!!! with .repost
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For hundreds of years, we’ve understood the body through two major transportation systems: the cardiovascular system & the lymphatic system.
Now researchers are exploring evidence of something else entirely…
A vast, interconnected fluid network moving through fascia and the spaces between tissues and organs… what scientists are calling the interstitium.
Those of who have taken any of our courses on fascia know this is where the extracellular matrix (ECM) lives.
Honestly… this kind of research lights me up. 🤓
Partly because the implications are enormous for how we understand inflammation, fluid movement, connective tissue, healing, metabolic health, and even chronic disease. And partly because it’s finally bringing more attention to this system that many of you here, like myself, already know and love!!
But also because it feels like one of those rare moments where modern anatomy starts catching up to observations that many Eastern medicine systems have been describing for thousands of years.
One of the most fascinating parts of this research is the emerging connection between the interstitium and acupuncture meridians.
Researchers injected tracers & dye into acupuncture points and watched fluid travel through interstitial pathways that aligned with traditional meridian maps… not through veins or lymph vessels, but through connective tissue spaces themselves.
As someone who has spent decades studying both Western medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and has an active acupuncture practice, I find this incredibly exciting.
This opens the door for a more integrated conversation about the body… and a thrilling landmark moment where ancient observations & modern imaging may actually have more overlap than we once thought.
It makes me wonder how many discoveries are still waiting inside systems we assumed we already understood in some other context.
Check out the full, beautifully illustrated article in the — definitely worth a read. Link in my bio!
