Saturday, May 30, 2015

Is Your Lymph, Limp? Why it's important and what you can do!

The Lymphatic System!


It's important to understand the basics of the "Lymphatic System" and the role it plays in your health...

Most people have heard the word Lymph Nodes and some may even know the locations of the many lymph nodes throughout the body.  But few people truly understand what the Lymphatic System does and the correlation of this amazing system and it's overall role in a healthy body.

From the Picture above you can clearly see that the entire system runs from head to toe almost like a tree. The Lymph Vessels are similar to branches & roots of a tree; the trunk is in the chest, the branches go into the arms and up into the neck & head; and the roots go down into the legs and feet.
This gives a mental image of your Lymphatic System but you're probably asking what does it do and how is it different from the circulatory system?

What The Lymph System Does

In a nut shell the Lymph System picks up the waste the circulatory system wasn't designed to handle! You see the arterial and venous circulatory system is a closed circuit where blood carries all important Nutrients, including oxygen to 75 Trillion cells throughout the human body and waste including carbon dioxide is carried away from the cells to be eliminated by the Lymphatic System.

It's important to remember that unlike the circulatory system which is a closed circuit, the  Lymph System is not! It originates in the countless spaces between the cells known as Interstitial spaces or Intercellular spaces. The branches join to form the tree as in the diagram. The Lymphatic System ends by dumping its contents into 2 major veins: The Thoracic Duct & Subclavian Vein.

So even though the circulatory system and the lymphatic system are continually circulating fluids throughout the body they're independent of each other as far as tubing goes; that being said however, the lymphatic system does end by pouring it's contents into the circulatory system at 2 junctions.

The fluid known as Lymph in the interstitial spaces called the lymphatic terminals. Surrounding the cells is a fluid the picks up blood proteins, large molecules & other waste by products unable to return to the blood. The Lymphatic System then drains the fluid (lymph). The Lymph is pumped into the lymphatic mainstream to the frequently occurring lymph nodes and through the liver where it's strained and detoxified. As you can see where the circulatory system is a delivery system the Lymphatic System is the drainage and filtration system for waste that can't be absorbed by the blood.

Why is this Important?


It's Important because without a strong circulation of the Lymph, waste can build up and when waste builds up in the body then Toxemia is the result. Toxemia is a beginning stage of disease. In fact Dr. Guyton in his well read medical school handbook, The Textbook of Medical Physiology , states the absolute necessity of keeping the lymph moving. 

He said that without the lymphatic system to carry away the blood proteins and large particulate matter-including dead cells and other toxic materials away from tissue spaces, neither which can be removed by absorption directly into the blood capillary... We see that this removal of blood proteins from the interstitial spaces by our lymphatic system is an essential function and without it we would die within about 24 hours. This makes it pretty clear that the Lymphatic System that's not really talked much in the main stream when we talk about health needs attention. Why? Because to apply the knowledge of what is know as Lymphology so that our health improves, you need to understand that activity is of utmost importance.

First of all the force of gravity is working against us, since the Lymph must flow uphill and there is no actual pumping organ to aid the lymph. It moves through the system in the right direction due to the large number of valves that only permit uphill fluid flow. The other problem is we have our own inertia working against us known as lack of exercise. Want a healthy Lymphatic System and better health? Then it's time to get off your duff and implement the following or suffer the consequence's. You can have a healthy Lymphatic System and better health and here's how?

Techniques To Lymphasize and Energize Your Way To Health



The Single Most Effect Exercise to a healthy Lymphatic System is Rebound Exercise also known as Lymphasizing.


 It's gentle bouncing action acts as a pump for the lymph fluid to pump the toxins out in the same manner as if you were running around a track breathing deeply. Okay so here are some other things you can do also.

1. Breathing deeply as in the exerted act of breathing deeply

2. The contraction of skeletal muscles in any movement whatsoever but better if done through exercise like rebounding.

3. Through the contraction of the lymphatic walls themselves where lymph is pumped from one valved segment to the next.

4.The natural, ongoing pulsation of blood that accompanies movement the more the better through exercise.

5. Simple use of skeletal muscles, best done through stretching, aerobics & weight training.

6. Passive compression of body tissue, like rubbing the body gently or a professional massage or lymphatic massage session.

7. The use of a slantboard for at least 10 minutes twice daily.

Scientific studies show that lymph flow increases as much as 10 to 15 times during exercise compared to rest and greater Lymph flow means greater detoxification!!!!


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