J.C. GUIMBERTEAU has explored new experimental fields in an attempt to explain the gliding of the structures under the skin, especially tendons and muscles.
This has always been one of his essential questions.
His endoscopic exploration of the organization of living tissue in the human body is groundbreaking. He has directed and produced numerous videos about his research. This has enabled him to develop a new concept of the organization of living matter, and to propose a new ontology for our “interior architecture”.

This work is the culmination of twenty years of intratissular endoscopic research carried out during more than 1,000 surgical operations. This is not a classic anatomy manual, systematically describing the different organs; works of this kind are already legion. Instead, it offers a new perspective on the micro-anatomical structure and architecture of living tissue, demonstrating how the fibrillar network extends across the entire body.

When I began this research, I thought that other surgeons in the world would follow in my footsteps because Intratissular Endoscopy is not a technically difficult procedure. However, it is clear that this is not the case, so I have created this website in a spirit of sharing what I have learned with anyone who is interested.

• My first wish is to to share the beauty of the images that I observed while exploring human tissue in my work as a surgeon. Although working with these tissues for years, I had never really seen what I was looking at. This journey through living tissue was made possible by new video and digital technologies. I wanted others to see the colors and shapes they revealed, and to appreciate the beauty of Nature and the structure of their bodies.
• I also wanted to share this new knowledge of the human body and how it functions. Scientists have studied the habits of other living organisms, such as red ants and Galapagos iguanas in great detail. They have accumulated knowledge about these creatures, but still know very little about how the human organism works. I wanted to spread this knowledge so that everyone can benefit from it and better understand their own body, while looking at it from a different perspective.
• The fibrillar network connects all of the tissues. Understanding this crucial point allows us to represent our body as a “global” structure, with a specific three-dimensional architecture, made up of elements which, although fragile, are endowed with an obstinate capacity for adaptation. This suggests that there is, in all living organisms, an architectural system whose role goes far beyond simply connecting things. Such a system is truly constitutive.
• I wanted to share my amazement at the discovery that cells do not occupy the entire volume of the body and are not responsible for its shape. The extracellular world, ignored by research for more than half a century, is as important as the cellular world.
• I also felt the need to help people to understand the importance of the long-neglected intracorporeal physical forces which impose their laws at all levels, and allow complexity to increase in space and time.
• I found it very difficult to abandon the reassuring certainty of rationality to enter a universe of fractals and apparent chaos. I have come to understand that this fibrillar disorder, together with tissue continuity, ensures the efficiency and proper functioning of the living organism. The concepts of order and proportionality suddenly seemed to lose ground to non-linearity and apparent disorder, which in fact allow for creative adaptability and the tendency of life to self-organize in the most efficient way.
• Finally, I wanted to inform others of the results of this research, which questions our academic certainties and leads us into the realms of quantum physics, fractalization and biotensegrity. Nature is a symphony of fragility and complexity, but it is gradually becoming more comprehensible.

Perhaps, like me, you will look at your body and life differently. This new awareness of our living architecture should not be seen as a revolution, but rather as an evolution made possible by technological progress.