Subtler Signs of Lymph Stagnation
Like Constipation and Insomnia
To understand how to read the signs from our bodies about our health, we need to visualize how its parts work together as a system.
The lymph system is basically the largest conduit of watery liquids in your body to deliver nutrients and remove waste. It is part of the distribution system working with other parts of circulation: blood and cerebral spinal fluid, CSF.
Movement moves the lymph: muscle contractions squeeze it through lymph vessels with one way valves to key to keep flowing in the right direction up to above the heart where it empties into the venous system.
The other route out is through sweating straight, the shortest way out through the skin. This helps explain night sweats and the helpfulness of saunas, sun, and exercise.
Lack of movement through modern lifestyle can lead to stagnation. Since the lymph system is a circulatory system that supports all organs with nutrition and waste removal, any organ can be affected and you may only notice what is happening to that organ, not the problem with the lymph behind it.
For example, I have noticed that muscle movements of the legs or body in general affect movement of the intestines and regularity. There is much lymph involved around the intestines, as much of immune system is around the intestines, the lymph being part of the immune system.
Sleep may be affected by lymph in ways that have not been understood at all. We know that many people who work on lymph improve their sleep and many other things but it is not always clear why.
Lymph can affect functional insomnia as distinguished from mechanism insomnia.
Mechanism insomnia is when one lacks physics and chemistry for the sleep mechanism: morning sun, melatonin, neurotransmitters, magnesium etc.
Functional insomnia is when the body can’t do the work it is designed to do in sleep, repair, because it does not have nutrients due to general nutrient deficiencies or distribution of nutrients through the lymph and blood. This can be experienced as waking up hungry if the problem is input, or maybe for no perceptible reason if the problem is distribution.
Or the problem can be excretion: like waking up with a headache: Pain does not explain. Headaches can be from toxins in the blood backing up from the liver that can’t move toxins out, reverse toxin flow or “leaky liver,” another sign being constipated. The lymph is also part of the strength of all organs including intestines, and lymph nodes cleaning lymph fluid before it dumps into the blood; spleen supports lymph nodes.
Understanding systems like this is a paradigm issue. If you are still waiting for references to scientific journals to prove this then you are probably in another paradigm that is unable to use deductive logic to think systemically about empirical experiences, your own or of others. You just don’t get that not everything has not been studied, that not all the right questions are being asked, because they don’t have the methods and theory to pose all questions.
Some people assume authority is only from authors in scientific journals. While I value that, too, I have a broader empirical baseline in successful populations through history: like the nearly undefeatable Comanche warriors until the technology of firearms compensated for poor food, retarded boots and inferior equestrianism. If you are from Texas or Oklahoma you know who Chief Quanah Parker was, and he was half white to help control for genetics. It’s not just their cleaner environment, but lifestyle including choices available today and I’m not going to say more about that because it’s beyond the pale for most people to receive, and another topic anyway.
This is a paradigm issue and people dismiss that word when they have no clue what they are missing. It’s how you make decisions about health and with what assumptions. Everyone wants to skip the theory and just get to the takeaways or supplements without knowing what the problem is. I am giving you a framework to understand the problem: how to read the signs as people for 1000’s of years read the signs of nature and their bodies without formal science. There was little protective buffering from abundance when they got it wrong.
Clinical success over chronic problems depends on interpreting multiple signs and adjusting multiple factors on a daily basis, not taking one thing at a time and waiting a few weeks to see if it is working, as it if is a double blind study on a larger population sample. That’s not enough of a diagnosis or strategy for complex health problems.
The lymph system has not been well understood and how it relates to other systems. Understanding is primarily limited to directly observable symptoms: lymph node swelling, edema, like swelling of the lower legs, or lymphoma cancer—gross pathologies.
Those who see the broader picture sometimes go do the opposite extreme of saying lymph is always the most important thing, and some go so far as to say all you need to heal is a diet of only fruits.
Suffice it to say the lymph system could use more attention because its problems are not as dramatic as a heart attack. The relation between the blood and heart is clear, whereas not everyone knows the relation between the spleen and lymph.
I’m not going to tell anyone what to do for the lymph, interpret symptoms, or give personal advice in social media comments because I can’t guess what someone’s problem really is.
This is not an invitation to go to work for people and drown is a sea of neediness with endless notifications when I am busy working for a living.
Feel free to share what you know or has worked for you in this area as I am always interested in learning.
The lymph system is basically the largest conduit of watery liquids in your body to deliver nutrients and remove waste. It is part of the distribution system working with other parts of circulation: blood and cerebral spinal fluid, CSF.
Movement moves the lymph: muscle contractions squeeze it through lymph vessels with one way valves to key to keep flowing in the right direction up to above the heart where it empties into the venous system.
The other route out is through sweating straight, the shortest way out through the skin. This helps explain night sweats and the helpfulness of saunas, sun, and exercise.
Lack of movement through modern lifestyle can lead to stagnation. Since the lymph system is a circulatory system that supports all organs with nutrition and waste removal, any organ can be affected and you may only notice what is happening to that organ, not the problem with the lymph behind it.
For example, I have noticed that muscle movements of the legs or body in general affect movement of the intestines and regularity. There is much lymph involved around the intestines, as much of immune system is around the intestines, the lymph being part of the immune system.
Sleep may be affected by lymph in ways that have not been understood at all. We know that many people who work on lymph improve their sleep and many other things but it is not always clear why.
Lymph can affect functional insomnia as distinguished from mechanism insomnia.
Mechanism insomnia is when one lacks physics and chemistry for the sleep mechanism: morning sun, melatonin, neurotransmitters, magnesium etc.
Functional insomnia is when the body can’t do the work it is designed to do in sleep, repair, because it does not have nutrients due to general nutrient deficiencies or distribution of nutrients through the lymph and blood. This can be experienced as waking up hungry if the problem is input, or maybe for no perceptible reason if the problem is distribution.
Or the problem can be excretion: like waking up with a headache: Pain does not explain. Headaches can be from toxins in the blood backing up from the liver that can’t move toxins out, reverse toxin flow or “leaky liver,” another sign being constipated. The lymph is also part of the strength of all organs including intestines, and lymph nodes cleaning lymph fluid before it dumps into the blood; spleen supports lymph nodes.
Understanding systems like this is a paradigm issue. If you are still waiting for references to scientific journals to prove this then you are probably in another paradigm that is unable to use deductive logic to think systemically about empirical experiences, your own or of others. You just don’t get that not everything has not been studied, that not all the right questions are being asked, because they don’t have the methods and theory to pose all questions.
Some people assume authority is only from authors in scientific journals. While I value that, too, I have a broader empirical baseline in successful populations through history: like the nearly undefeatable Comanche warriors until the technology of firearms compensated for poor food, retarded boots and inferior equestrianism. If you are from Texas or Oklahoma you know who Chief Quanah Parker was, and he was half white to help control for genetics. It’s not just their cleaner environment, but lifestyle including choices available today and I’m not going to say more about that because it’s beyond the pale for most people to receive, and another topic anyway.
This is a paradigm issue and people dismiss that word when they have no clue what they are missing. It’s how you make decisions about health and with what assumptions. Everyone wants to skip the theory and just get to the takeaways or supplements without knowing what the problem is. I am giving you a framework to understand the problem: how to read the signs as people for 1000’s of years read the signs of nature and their bodies without formal science. There was little protective buffering from abundance when they got it wrong.
Clinical success over chronic problems depends on interpreting multiple signs and adjusting multiple factors on a daily basis, not taking one thing at a time and waiting a few weeks to see if it is working, as it if is a double blind study on a larger population sample. That’s not enough of a diagnosis or strategy for complex health problems.
The lymph system has not been well understood and how it relates to other systems. Understanding is primarily limited to directly observable symptoms: lymph node swelling, edema, like swelling of the lower legs, or lymphoma cancer—gross pathologies.
Those who see the broader picture sometimes go do the opposite extreme of saying lymph is always the most important thing, and some go so far as to say all you need to heal is a diet of only fruits.
Suffice it to say the lymph system could use more attention because its problems are not as dramatic as a heart attack. The relation between the blood and heart is clear, whereas not everyone knows the relation between the spleen and lymph.
I’m not going to tell anyone what to do for the lymph, interpret symptoms, or give personal advice in social media comments because I can’t guess what someone’s problem really is.
This is not an invitation to go to work for people and drown is a sea of neediness with endless notifications when I am busy working for a living.
Feel free to share what you know or has worked for you in this area as I am always interested in learning.
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