What you Ate must Circulate and Regulate
Connections between:
Lymph circulation
Spinal alignment
Regulating sleep and stress
Lymph circulation
Spinal alignment
Regulating sleep and stress
Nutrients must arrive in the cells by circulating through the blood into the fluid around the cells that is cleared by the lymph system.
The lymph system moves watery liquid with its vessels, like blood vessels, but has even more volume.
When lymph is stagnant, it is harder for blood to deliver nutrients because the flows between blood, fluid around the cells, and lymph fluid all move together.
Circulation must reach the brain to deliver nutrients to help sleep, that’s part of regulation of activity.
The brain includes the hypothalamus gland that receives and sends hormones through circulation in order to regulate the nervous system: when to be active and when to relax and sleep to utilize nutrients for repair.
Nutrition is not just the amount of inputs and digestion.
Nutrition requires utilization of inputs through distribution and regulation of the timing of utilization:
One fastest way to stress someone to the point of terror is suffocation through the inability to breathe, drowning, strangling, etc. The body’s most urgent priority is to move the nutrient oxygen to the brain through blood circulation.
The brain is the most crucial area to receive oxygen, but the periphery of the body can also suffocate more slowly through lack of local circulation. Just about any symptom can involve a lack of circulation to distribute nutrients for healing.
Pain is a signal from the brain about a local area that needs attention to avoid a stress or increase healing.
Neuropathy, balding, muscle weakness, stiffness, edema, or any under-functioning organ that you cannot even perceive, are also symptoms that don’t involve pain.
Removing pain is one way to reward the brain and is one sign that circulation may have been increased.
When there is no pain, the brain can reward increased circulation with deeper relaxation.
That’s one reason massage, walking, and exercise are relaxing, because these activities increase circulation.
Much of the lymph is moved through muscle movement that squeezes and shakes the lymph vessels and pushes fluid through with one way valves. The lymph empties into the venous blood system behind the collar bones to send waste and fat to be processed in the liver.
The lymph also has its own subtle pump through smooth muscles of its own.
This pump can be assisted through massaging the lymph nodes. This often has to be done separately and exercise alone cannot do it.
The lymph is often the weakest link in circulation or even the entire body.
The lymph moves most of the body’s water including the fluid around cells.
Lymph volume is also larger than blood volume.
Lymph vessels remove metabolic waste, toxins and pathogens to be destroyed at the lymph nodes.
The lymph is part of the detox system for the other organs of detoxification like the liver.
The lymph also takes in fat from the intestines as fat has its own unique digestion process and has to be made water soluble in part of the intestinal lining called lacteals.
High blood pressure can be partly an attempt to push through stagnation of extracellular fluid and lymph because these system are part of one hydraulic-like flow.
The third part of the circulatory system is the cerebrospinal fluid--CFS--inside the spine and brain that flows as a whole from hips to head. The CFS exchanges with blood and lymph in the brain and spine.
These basic facts might help explain why circulation methods are so relaxing: to stop the brain’s perception that parts of the body are suffocating. Stress can produce stress hormones like cortisol or adrenalin that are part of the fight or flight response that can be seen as a call to move, to get up and do something to move the muscles to move the lymph.
Regulation and Sleep
What you ate must circulate and regulate.
Nutrients must circulate to the brain to make you sleep.
Even if the sleep mechanisms are working fine there is no point if you cannot circulate waste and toxins out all over the body to make way for nutrients to arrive at locations. Then there is no point to sleep and you might wake up to eat more or if not hungry, to move to stimulate circulation.
The latter is called functional insomnia, in contrast to sleep mechanism insomnia.
Forms of insomnia may become indistinguishable when lacking sunlight because sun does it all:
Tickle or Tackle ?
Many people are tickling the vagus nerve to activate the parasympathetic nervous system to rest to help organs function.
But why stop there when you can stimulate the entire nervous system and tackle the physical causes of stress?
I want to tackle what the nervous system is all excited about: suffocation through lack of circulation due to:
Lack of movement of muscles to pump the lymph system
Lack of aligned movement with an aligned spine and cranium to:
Vagus nerve tickling has some of the limitations of the medical paradigm: isolating one thing to manipulate without fully looking at the causes, what it is addressing, and how it works together with other body parts and processes.
I’m all for vagus nerve methods that help, I just want to make a provocative contrast.
Tickle a part or tackle the whole system.
Move to Circulate, Align and Relax.
Some of the best ways to regulate to lower stress and rest are circulation methods that involve movement and massage. Here are some general components of routines to circulate, align and relax.
Lymph Massage: Major lymph points around the body.
Including the head’s brain drain to free the hypothalamus of stagnation and suffocation so it can receive hormones for processing, remove caffeine in the evening, etc.
This includes receiving leptin hormones that count fat cells so you can regulate appetite and fat burning versus storage.
Spinal Circulation: twisting, flexion, extension, traction, etc.
Cranial Expansion using tongue and figures to open sutures between cranial bones and around jaws to increase circulation.
Muscle & Bone Release:
Tense muscles may be closed and not dilating to allow blood and lymph to flow.
Tense muscles can misalign the spine and inhibit cerebrospinal flow.
Putting the psoas and illium muscles in neutral position for amazing release all the way up the neck and thus the cranium. This muscle is short from distortions due to sitting in chairs and contributes to S curve posture.
Sacrum release: Chairs push the sacrum hip bone out and that can be supported while sitting and pushed back while lying for astonishing relaxation and hip alignment.
Various stretches.
Sitting supports at desk and car that align the hips to stack the spine to free breath and keep the head back to relive neck and shoulder tension.
Primal Movement:
Walking properly is essential to train muscles to align bones as part of everyday life.
Bending, squatting, etc. for proper hip usage and alignment.
Barefoot and zero drop shoes.
How to Measure Progress Live
Deep breathing for me is a result of doing all these things rather than an isolated technique.
Deep breathing alone is thought to help pump the lymph system since the diaphragm moves the organs around had is near the central channel or lymph duct.
On the other hand, my strategy for breath is twofold:
Release the constraints on the ribs and abdomen through postural alignment.
Increasing circulation increases demand for breath in two ways:
Increasing the demand for oxygen.
Increasing need for pumping the lymph around the gut through movement to help the whole system move from feet or head wherever circulation is stimulated.
Deeper breath with relaxation is a sign that a technique is working to open circulation.
When breath and relaxation stop the benefits of doing the technique may be finished.
If you are reading this on social media, it is impossible to give instructions in a strategic overview like this, and I will not in comments.
All kinds of movement can help circulation: more quantity, variety, greater range of motion, etc.
The lymph system moves watery liquid with its vessels, like blood vessels, but has even more volume.
When lymph is stagnant, it is harder for blood to deliver nutrients because the flows between blood, fluid around the cells, and lymph fluid all move together.
Circulation must reach the brain to deliver nutrients to help sleep, that’s part of regulation of activity.
The brain includes the hypothalamus gland that receives and sends hormones through circulation in order to regulate the nervous system: when to be active and when to relax and sleep to utilize nutrients for repair.
Nutrition is not just the amount of inputs and digestion.
Nutrition requires utilization of inputs through distribution and regulation of the timing of utilization:
- when to burn energy to move muscles to promote circulation for distribution
- when to sleep and relax to utilize nutrients for repair and replenishment.
One fastest way to stress someone to the point of terror is suffocation through the inability to breathe, drowning, strangling, etc. The body’s most urgent priority is to move the nutrient oxygen to the brain through blood circulation.
The brain is the most crucial area to receive oxygen, but the periphery of the body can also suffocate more slowly through lack of local circulation. Just about any symptom can involve a lack of circulation to distribute nutrients for healing.
Pain is a signal from the brain about a local area that needs attention to avoid a stress or increase healing.
Neuropathy, balding, muscle weakness, stiffness, edema, or any under-functioning organ that you cannot even perceive, are also symptoms that don’t involve pain.
Removing pain is one way to reward the brain and is one sign that circulation may have been increased.
When there is no pain, the brain can reward increased circulation with deeper relaxation.
That’s one reason massage, walking, and exercise are relaxing, because these activities increase circulation.
Much of the lymph is moved through muscle movement that squeezes and shakes the lymph vessels and pushes fluid through with one way valves. The lymph empties into the venous blood system behind the collar bones to send waste and fat to be processed in the liver.
The lymph also has its own subtle pump through smooth muscles of its own.
This pump can be assisted through massaging the lymph nodes. This often has to be done separately and exercise alone cannot do it.
The lymph is often the weakest link in circulation or even the entire body.
The lymph moves most of the body’s water including the fluid around cells.
Lymph volume is also larger than blood volume.
Lymph vessels remove metabolic waste, toxins and pathogens to be destroyed at the lymph nodes.
The lymph is part of the detox system for the other organs of detoxification like the liver.
The lymph also takes in fat from the intestines as fat has its own unique digestion process and has to be made water soluble in part of the intestinal lining called lacteals.
High blood pressure can be partly an attempt to push through stagnation of extracellular fluid and lymph because these system are part of one hydraulic-like flow.
The third part of the circulatory system is the cerebrospinal fluid--CFS--inside the spine and brain that flows as a whole from hips to head. The CFS exchanges with blood and lymph in the brain and spine.
These basic facts might help explain why circulation methods are so relaxing: to stop the brain’s perception that parts of the body are suffocating. Stress can produce stress hormones like cortisol or adrenalin that are part of the fight or flight response that can be seen as a call to move, to get up and do something to move the muscles to move the lymph.
Regulation and Sleep
What you ate must circulate and regulate.
Nutrients must circulate to the brain to make you sleep.
Even if the sleep mechanisms are working fine there is no point if you cannot circulate waste and toxins out all over the body to make way for nutrients to arrive at locations. Then there is no point to sleep and you might wake up to eat more or if not hungry, to move to stimulate circulation.
The latter is called functional insomnia, in contrast to sleep mechanism insomnia.
Forms of insomnia may become indistinguishable when lacking sunlight because sun does it all:
- Regulates circadian rhythms through melatonin production that follows light exposure.
- Is a basic nutrient for cell mitochondrial energy production.
- Helps blood circulation by charging the capillaries electrically to pull blood through.
Tickle or Tackle ?
Many people are tickling the vagus nerve to activate the parasympathetic nervous system to rest to help organs function.
But why stop there when you can stimulate the entire nervous system and tackle the physical causes of stress?
I want to tackle what the nervous system is all excited about: suffocation through lack of circulation due to:
Lack of movement of muscles to pump the lymph system
Lack of aligned movement with an aligned spine and cranium to:
- Utilizes all the muscles evenly back and front through the hips, back, neck, etc. (misalignment can create pain)
- Allows the cerebrospinal fluid inside the bones of the spine and head, to flow from hips to top of the head.
Vagus nerve tickling has some of the limitations of the medical paradigm: isolating one thing to manipulate without fully looking at the causes, what it is addressing, and how it works together with other body parts and processes.
I’m all for vagus nerve methods that help, I just want to make a provocative contrast.
Tickle a part or tackle the whole system.
Move to Circulate, Align and Relax.
Some of the best ways to regulate to lower stress and rest are circulation methods that involve movement and massage. Here are some general components of routines to circulate, align and relax.
Lymph Massage: Major lymph points around the body.
Including the head’s brain drain to free the hypothalamus of stagnation and suffocation so it can receive hormones for processing, remove caffeine in the evening, etc.
This includes receiving leptin hormones that count fat cells so you can regulate appetite and fat burning versus storage.
Spinal Circulation: twisting, flexion, extension, traction, etc.
Cranial Expansion using tongue and figures to open sutures between cranial bones and around jaws to increase circulation.
Muscle & Bone Release:
Tense muscles may be closed and not dilating to allow blood and lymph to flow.
Tense muscles can misalign the spine and inhibit cerebrospinal flow.
Putting the psoas and illium muscles in neutral position for amazing release all the way up the neck and thus the cranium. This muscle is short from distortions due to sitting in chairs and contributes to S curve posture.
Sacrum release: Chairs push the sacrum hip bone out and that can be supported while sitting and pushed back while lying for astonishing relaxation and hip alignment.
Various stretches.
Sitting supports at desk and car that align the hips to stack the spine to free breath and keep the head back to relive neck and shoulder tension.
Primal Movement:
Walking properly is essential to train muscles to align bones as part of everyday life.
Bending, squatting, etc. for proper hip usage and alignment.
Barefoot and zero drop shoes.
How to Measure Progress Live
Deep breathing for me is a result of doing all these things rather than an isolated technique.
Deep breathing alone is thought to help pump the lymph system since the diaphragm moves the organs around had is near the central channel or lymph duct.
On the other hand, my strategy for breath is twofold:
Release the constraints on the ribs and abdomen through postural alignment.
Increasing circulation increases demand for breath in two ways:
Increasing the demand for oxygen.
Increasing need for pumping the lymph around the gut through movement to help the whole system move from feet or head wherever circulation is stimulated.
Deeper breath with relaxation is a sign that a technique is working to open circulation.
When breath and relaxation stop the benefits of doing the technique may be finished.
If you are reading this on social media, it is impossible to give instructions in a strategic overview like this, and I will not in comments.
All kinds of movement can help circulation: more quantity, variety, greater range of motion, etc.
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