“This is clearly a third bodily system for the circulation of fluids,” in addition to the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, says Rebecca Wells, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and participant in the research.
The story is basically a scrolling infographic with fragments of information broken up between screens, but the essence of it is that the interstitium is a third circulatory system in the body akin to how Chinese medicine works (and been working for the past 4,000 years) with acupuncture, in particular.
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