Biofield
Subject in Alternative Health
Biofield has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Richard HammerschlagBiochemist and acupuncture researcher, co-author of a foundational paper defining the biofield
Hammerschlag argues the big B biofield implies that a person does not end at their skin.
“Big B biofield also asks us to consider that I don't end at my skin”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 16:35
Hammerschlag distinguishes little b biofields, measurable physiological fields such as the EEG and biophotons, from a composite big B biofield that emanates from the body.
“And the second area is what we'll then call big B biofield. And that is a composite field, perhaps a composite of all of these little biofields in the body”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 15:51
Hammerschlag describes his career shift from neurobiology to acupuncture research and then to biofield research.
“First, I'm a recovering biochemist. So what that means is I had about 25 years of a career in basic research in neurobiology”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 13:49
Neil TheiseAdjunct professor of pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and co-discoverer of the interstitium
Theise argues that a healer and patient form a single merged electromagnetic field rather than two separate fields interacting.
“And so when they come in closer and closer and closer, it's not two separate fields. It's a single merged field out of the two”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 1:06:53
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
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.