#67 - Mobilizing the Lymphatic System

... you know, in your own life, right?

Yeah, for sure.

It's, uh, it's an interesting conversation and, and topic, something I feel like I'm learning about a little bit at a time all the time.

It's actually really gaining a lot of popularity, too.

Hmm.

People are talking more about it.

It used to be that nobody talked about it beyond what you just said.

Like, "Hey, you got a cold?" You know? "Oh, they...

Yep, they feel swollen."

Mm-hmm.

You know, you do have a cold.

Your body's working hard against that cold, and, you know, everyone's, most people anyway, have had that experience where they feel underneath the, you know, the line of their, the corner of their jaw and they feel the, the swelling that can take place there.

And there's lymph nodes all over the body that are involved in, um, in some interesting processes.

So maybe we start with kind of a basic rundown of what the lymph system is-

Sure

... you know, and what it does for us, and hopefully that'll, you know, we'll find our way right into some applications, some practical things actually, some very easy things to execute that, that can be quite useful for working with lymphatics.

So I guess the first thing, this might be completely new for some of our listeners, is to hear about the lymphatic system.

So first thing that you wanna know about lymphatics is that it is part of the circulatory system, and essentially the lymphatic system returns excess fluid back into circulation.

So in other words, it helps with swelling.

So when you have an acute injury, and let's say you sprain your ankle and your ankle swells up like a baseball, you know, eventually your body's able to do something with that fluid, right? And it's your lymph system that is very much, uh, responding to the inflammation, and over time, helping to move the, uh, the excess fluid there.

So it's, uh, primarily like...

You can think about it as like a plumbing system or like a sewer system for the body.

Hmm.

Right? And it's, uh...

Think about it like a sewer system's actually a good w- it's a good way to look at it because one of the other things that's so important is that the lymph system helps to aid in immune function and the destruction of waste and debris and, uh, infectious agents and even cancer cells.

... you know, in your own life, right?

Yeah, for sure.

It's, uh, it's an interesting conversation and, and topic, something I feel like I'm learning about a little bit at a time all the time.

It's actually really gaining a lot of popularity, too.

Hmm.

People are talking more about it.

It used to be that nobody talked about it beyond what you just said.

Like, "Hey, you got a cold?" You know? "Oh, they...

Yep, they feel swollen."

Mm-hmm.

You know, you do have a cold.

Your body's working hard against that cold, and, you know, everyone's, most people anyway, have had that experience where they feel underneath the, you know, the line of their, the corner of their jaw and they feel the, the swelling that can take place there.

And there's lymph nodes all over the body that are involved in, um, in some interesting processes.

So maybe we start with kind of a basic rundown of what the lymph system is-

Sure

... you know, and what it does for us, and hopefully that'll, you know, we'll find our way right into some applications, some practical things actually, some very easy things to execute that, that can be quite useful for working with lymphatics.

So I guess the first thing, this might be completely new for some of our listeners, is to hear about the lymphatic system.

So first thing that you wanna know about lymphatics is that it is part of the circulatory system, and essentially the lymphatic system returns excess fluid back into circulation.

So in other words, it helps with swelling.

So when you have an acute injury, and let's say you sprain your ankle and your ankle swells up like a baseball, you know, eventually your body's able to do something with that fluid, right? And it's your lymph system that is very much, uh, responding to the inflammation, and over time, helping to move the, uh, the excess fluid there.

So it's, uh, primarily like...

You can think about it as like a plumbing system or like a sewer system for the body.

Hmm.

Right? And it's, uh...

Think about it like a sewer system's actually a good w- it's a good way to look at it because one of the other things that's so important is that the lymph system helps to aid in immune function and the destruction of waste and debris and, uh, infectious agents and even cancer cells.