What Neil Theise has said about Interstitium
3 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 12, 2026
Neil Theise, Adjunct professor of pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and co-discoverer of the interstitium, has been quoted on Interstitium 3 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 12, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Theise describes the interstitium as a body-wide fluid network through the fascia that functions as a communication network.
“turns out to be a body-wide network through all the fascia of the body connecting everything, and it's a communication network for the entire body”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 18:21
Theise explains that the fluid-filled interstitial spaces were long dismissed as slide artifact because tissue processing drains the water out.
“And those cracks we saw, those were the remnants of the fluid-filled spaces”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 40:01
Theise reports that practitioners from acupuncture, Ayurvedic and Tibetan traditions recognized the interstitial anatomy as what they had been describing poetically.
“whatever they were talking about, when I would show them the anatomy, they'd say, yes, that's what we've been talking about”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 41:59
Episodes
Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena PodcastMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 12, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
A re-aired Phenomena episode in which Ivy Ross, Martin Picard, Richard Hammerschlag, Neil Theise, Meredith Sprengel and Jonathan Cohen ask what energy is in healing.