Lymphatic Drainage

Lymphatic Drainage

This article explores the lymphatic system, and what it does. Most importantly, it explains why assisting our lymph to flow, especially when it is sluggish, or after injury, is of utmost importance.

At the end of this short article, there is a reasonably short video outlining the key ways of ensuring optimal lymph drainage.

What Is The Lymphatic System?

The lymphatic system is effectively akin to a sewage system, providing the means of ferrying toxins around the body to exit points known as lymph nodes.

We have approximately 700 lymph nodes throughout the body. However, the main exit point for the toxins in our lymph fluid are just above and below our collar bones.

Our lymphatic system is even more complex than our vascular system. This simply means that we have more lymphatic pathways than we do venous pathways.

Our venous system is made up of our arteries and veins, both of which ferry our blood around our bodies.

Conversely, our lymphatic system, whilst running alongside our vascular system, moves lymph fluid around. It does this in order to:

• Carry toxins to exit points within the body.
• Distribute elements of our immune system to where they are needed
• Maintain the correct fluid pressure in the body.

Lymphatic System Function

Our lymphatic system maintains fluid levels within our body tissues by removing all of the fluids that leak out of our blood vessels.

The lymphatic system also plays a key role within our immune system. One aspect of this, is that, the lymphatic system is used to excrete toxins and cancer cells from the body.

It is, therefore, important to ensure these toxins, and other forms of detritus, drain properly from our lymph fluid, and that the cleansed fluid is returned to our blood supply.

Insufficient exercise and injury can prevent efficient lymph flow.

When our lymphatic system is sluggish it can cause water retention, also known as oedema. When the lymph flow is chronically congested, showing signs of ongoing swelling, this is called lymphoedema.

Our lymphatic system can be damaged in a number of different ways. Surgery can cause permanent damage within the lymphatic system, as can radio therapy and other forms of tissue injury. It is also very likely that chronic exposure to wireless technologies could also negatively impact our lymphatic system.

Plus, we are living in a very toxic world. So, our bodies can become overwhelmed by the toxic burden it is having to deal with.

Keeping The Lymph Moving

One of the best ways to assist our lymphatic system is to remain hydrated, by drinking enough clean drinking water, with good mineral levels. Another is to eat a healthy, varied organic diet, and reduce the toxic exposures we are faced with, within our day-to-day lives.

However, we are never going to avoid all of the toxins that currently exist on this planet. So, learning how to assist our lymphatic system to drain, and detox properly, is profoundly important.

Detoxification

Detoxing products that bioaccumulate in our bodies is a complex process. Improving lymphatic drainage is a critical step, as is clearing out our other detox pathways, especially our liver and our skin.

Regular exercise, dry brushing and exfoliating, using exfoliation cloths, as well as drinking properly mineralised water and using detox binders, like clays, fruit pectins, and products like psyllium husk, to neutralise toxins, is also key.

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And, please watch the following video to learn how to simply and easily get your lymph moving, and the second video to see how beneficial rebound exercise is for lymp flow and detoxification.