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Move Waste and Toxicity Out
The lymph system drains waste from body’s water around cells, the interstitial fluid, to keep it moving so the blood can deliver nutrients.
So you might be eating right but the nutrients aren’t being delivered fully to cells.
Or you might be detoxify your liver and gut but not clearing the lymph on which all organs depend to strengthen the organs of detoxification.
This is why some people talk about the lymph as a master system, and while some claims may be exaggerated, the lymph has often been neglected in treatment and not well explained. The description I just gave expresses the broadest importance more directly.
Digest Fat
The other part of the lymph system in the intestinal lining is called the lacteals that process fats by turning them into triglycerides and then connecting to proteins to make fats water soluble to send them through lymph vessels into the blood veins, entering the blood stream behind the clavical at the base of the neck. So if your lymph system lacteals are impaired you might not be getting full processing of fat and the fat soluble vitamins, A, D, E, K, used by every cell which means cells anywhere can be impaired.
Regulate Blood Pressure
A third function or effect has to do with regulating blood pressure as the lymph releases liquid into the blood. On the other end of the system where arterial capillaries feed the interstitial fluid between cells that the lymph draws upon, one can imagine that if there is stagnation there that can back up into capillaries and require more blood pressure to push it through. Much of blood pressure is a response to resistance in capillaries, so some but not all the bottleneck are in what is after the capillaries.
Immune System Distribution
Toxins and pathogens all over the body in the intersitial fluids are gathered and distributed by lymph vessels to
the lymph nodes first to attack pathogens with white blood cells.
then on to the blood and liver to process toxins out.
Other lymphoid tissue glands working like nodes stand at key points to monitor invader: tonsils, adenoids, Peyer’s patches in the intestines.
The coordination of the immune system occurs through dendritic cells and microbiome or probiotics all over our body that signal what to attack and where.
In this oddly complex system you can imagine that a lot can go wrong.
2 Ways Lymph Moves
There are two ways the lymph moves:
It actually has it's own pump through the smooth muscle contractions. These are stimulated when you do a lymph massage while being motionless otherwise. Lymph massages of just a few nodes would not work without this pump, but many people fail to understand this.
The main way the lymph moves is through major motor muscle contractions like in walking that squeezes this passive system along. And through the shaking, bounding or vibration created in all parts of the body where the muscles are not moving, like arms and head, as you walk. The lymph moves in one direction through one way valves so any motion opens them and moves fluid one way and so reverse flow would close the valves.
So it’s easy to understand how sedentary lifestyles lead to lack of movement and stagnation of circulation, accumulation of toxins and lack of nutrient delivery that lower energy and the ability to exercise.
There is also a question of how much the range of motions affect lymph flow such that walking is not enough. Sitting at a chair versus a primal squat, how does that affect lymph nodes and flow?
While the basics of lymph appear to be known, it becomes apparent that we don’t know everything once we examine pathology
The lymph system drains waste from body’s water around cells, the interstitial fluid, to keep it moving so the blood can deliver nutrients.
So you might be eating right but the nutrients aren’t being delivered fully to cells.
Or you might be detoxify your liver and gut but not clearing the lymph on which all organs depend to strengthen the organs of detoxification.
This is why some people talk about the lymph as a master system, and while some claims may be exaggerated, the lymph has often been neglected in treatment and not well explained. The description I just gave expresses the broadest importance more directly.
Digest Fat
The other part of the lymph system in the intestinal lining is called the lacteals that process fats by turning them into triglycerides and then connecting to proteins to make fats water soluble to send them through lymph vessels into the blood veins, entering the blood stream behind the clavical at the base of the neck. So if your lymph system lacteals are impaired you might not be getting full processing of fat and the fat soluble vitamins, A, D, E, K, used by every cell which means cells anywhere can be impaired.
Regulate Blood Pressure
A third function or effect has to do with regulating blood pressure as the lymph releases liquid into the blood. On the other end of the system where arterial capillaries feed the interstitial fluid between cells that the lymph draws upon, one can imagine that if there is stagnation there that can back up into capillaries and require more blood pressure to push it through. Much of blood pressure is a response to resistance in capillaries, so some but not all the bottleneck are in what is after the capillaries.
Immune System Distribution
Toxins and pathogens all over the body in the intersitial fluids are gathered and distributed by lymph vessels to
the lymph nodes first to attack pathogens with white blood cells.
then on to the blood and liver to process toxins out.
Other lymphoid tissue glands working like nodes stand at key points to monitor invader: tonsils, adenoids, Peyer’s patches in the intestines.
The coordination of the immune system occurs through dendritic cells and microbiome or probiotics all over our body that signal what to attack and where.
In this oddly complex system you can imagine that a lot can go wrong.
2 Ways Lymph Moves
There are two ways the lymph moves:
It actually has it's own pump through the smooth muscle contractions. These are stimulated when you do a lymph massage while being motionless otherwise. Lymph massages of just a few nodes would not work without this pump, but many people fail to understand this.
The main way the lymph moves is through major motor muscle contractions like in walking that squeezes this passive system along. And through the shaking, bounding or vibration created in all parts of the body where the muscles are not moving, like arms and head, as you walk. The lymph moves in one direction through one way valves so any motion opens them and moves fluid one way and so reverse flow would close the valves.
So it’s easy to understand how sedentary lifestyles lead to lack of movement and stagnation of circulation, accumulation of toxins and lack of nutrient delivery that lower energy and the ability to exercise.
There is also a question of how much the range of motions affect lymph flow such that walking is not enough. Sitting at a chair versus a primal squat, how does that affect lymph nodes and flow?
While the basics of lymph appear to be known, it becomes apparent that we don’t know everything once we examine pathology
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