In the first two episodes, we have established that there are different ways of looking at the body and that there are major shortcomings in our Western way of viewing both human beings and the body itself.
From a history of ideas perspective, it can be argued that the reductionist thinking that permeates modern science was in fact a compromise with ecclesiastical power, a temporary objectification and simplification of reality, a conscious reduction of what humans, life, and nature truly are.
By dividing, dismantling, and closely studying the smallest components, we have increased a certain type of understanding that has given us our modern world – but somewhere along the way, we forgot one of the central tenets behind all reductionist thinking – the importance of putting the parts together into a whole.
But in the last ten years, there has been an explosion of new anatomical research that revives the idea that the parts must be assembled into a whole. In this field, a holistic perspective is not just desirable but absolutely necessary – and recent discoveries challenge many previous ideas about the body, health, pain, and our public health diseases.
In this episode, we will talk about Fascia, the network of connective tissue that envelops everything in the body, from muscles and skeleton to organs and cells, and about how fascia has gone from being something that was cut away to being recognized in 2017 as the body's largest organ, vital to how our body functions.
Participants in the episode are Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Per Johansson.
References from episode 3
Definition of Fascia
Karl E Arfors, inflammation & back pain
The 2013 German documentary with Heike Jäger
The study on Fascia and horses
Heike Jäger on the current state of research
Fascia Research Congress 2018
