The Living Body
Live aftershow & Q&A with Axel, Ivar & Hans — right after the documentary premiere
What we know, we learned from dead bodies
That is not a provocation — it is how anatomy has been taught for hundreds of years. But what happens when we begin to study the body while it is alive? What do we see that we missed?
That is the question that brought the world's leading fascia researchers to Uppsala in June 2025. And that is the question The Living Body sets out to answer.
The film follows the first Swedish Fascia Convention — the preparations, the stage, the conversations behind the scenes — and the people who have devoted their careers to understanding what medicine has long ignored.
Uppsala · Swedish Fascia Convention · 2025
The people behind the science
- Jean-Claude GuimberteauSurgeon & documentary filmmaker, France
Guimberteau inserted an endoscope into living tissue and filmed what he saw. Images no one had seen before — that changed how fascia is understood. They have reached over 70 million people.
- Carla SteccoProfessor of Anatomy, University of Padua
One of the researchers who drove the push to have fascia recognised as its own anatomical system. Without her work, the map of the body looks different.
- Gerald PollackProfessor of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Studies water and has found a fourth phase that shouldn't exist — but does. His research opens the question of whether the body is not just biochemistry, but also energy.
- Neil TheisePathologist & professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Published in 2018 an article the fascia world had been waiting for without knowing it. A pathologist who stumbled into the conversation — and suddenly found himself at the centre of it.
- Sue AdstrumResearcher & clinician, New Zealand
Has worked with fascia for 25 years, as a researcher and clinician. One of the clearest voices for making this knowledge accessible to more than those already convinced.
One hour that opens the body
- FormatAftershow
Axel, Ivar and Hans sit down right after the film for an open conversation about the journey, the research, and where the world is heading.
- InteractionLive Q&A
Ask your questions directly. We answer live throughout the broadcast. No question is too big or too small.
- Who it's forAnyone curious
Whether you're a therapist, a patient, or simply curious about how the body really works — you are welcome exactly as you are.
Live right after the premiere
Axel, Ivar and Hans sit down right after the film for an open conversation. How did it really come about to organise the Swedish Fascia Convention — and what happened after? What does it mean that the Japanese government now has fascia in its 30-year health vision? And what do we make of all this?
It will be a conversation about the journey, the research, where the world is heading — and what the next steps are.
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