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Hi John
If I were to ask you what your digestive system does for you, you’d probably say, “Duh, Sherry. It breaks down your food so your body can use it.”
And if I asked what your circulatory system does, you’d likely say, “It pumps blood through your body so it can deliver oxygen and nutrients to your cells.”
Then if I asked about your respiratory system, you might say, “It brings in oxygen for your cells and gets rid of carbon dioxide.”
But what if I asked what your lymphatic system does?
<Insert sounds of crickets chirping.>
The fact is, most people have no earthly clue what their lymphatic system does.
Let me clue you in: Without it, you’d be pushing up daisies pretty quickly.
Let’s take a closer look at this little-understood, yet extremely crucial part of your anatomy that you definitely don’t ever want to be without.
Your drop off-pick up cycle
Your lymphatic system functions kind of like your circulatory system, and it works in partnership with your circulatory system, but instead of blood the main fluid here is lymph.
Lymph is actually derived from your blood and blood plasma—it’s a clear-to-white liquid made up of white blood cells, nutrients and a fluid called chyle.
(Chyle is a milky fluid created in your intestines during your digestion of fats and contains rich levels of fat and proteins.)
What happens is this:
When you digest fats, chyle is formed and is absorbed into your bloodstream. In addition, nutrients from all your other foods also join in the action and get into your blood.
Your blood cruises through all your blood vessels—first your bigger main arteries, then as it branches out farther the blood eventually reaches your itty bitty capillaries.
Then lymph from your blood drips out of the ends of these tiny capillaries. From there the lymph gets to work bathing your cells with needed moisture and delivering nutrients to all your cells.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Because like a “carry-in, carry-out picnic area,” your lymph also grabs waste-loaded fluids from around your cells and makes its way to your lymph vessels.
Then your lymph vessels start pumping this “dirty dishwater” away from your cells. Most people don’t realize this, but you have just as many lymph vessels and capillaries as you have blood vessels and capillaries!
Then the “dirty dishwater” eventually reaches one of your lymph nodes. The lymph nodes proceed to filter out the wastes (plus any viruses, harmful bacteria or even cancer cells that might have been picked up along the way) and destroy them.
(Note that when there are a LOT of toxins in your lymph, sometimes the lymph nodes get overwhelmed and swell up. That’s when many people say they have “swollen glands” but they’re really swollen lymph nodes.)
Once the filtering is done, then the “clean” lymph flows back into your bloodstream to rejoin your blood and start its work all over again.
So as you can see, when this delivery/pick-up system isn’t working right, you are susceptible to a number of serious health problems including:
1- Lacking nutrients/deficiency diseases
2- Cancer
3- Low energy
4- Repeated viruses or infections
5- Fluid swelling in your limbs or other areas of the body (edema)
The other players and immune health
Your lymphatic system also works in close partnership with your immune system, and the main players here (in addition to your lymph nodes) are your bone marrow, your thymus gland and your spleen.
Your bone marrow is where the vast majority of your immune cells are produced from specialized cells called stem cells.
Once the immune cells are produced, they travel to your thymus gland. There they mature and are assigned a specific role to protect you. Then they answer their “call to duty” and migrate to the specific area of your body that they’re guarding.
The thymus also produces hormones which help to initiate immune responses when you need them, such as when you ingest a dangerous pathogen or get bitten by a bug.
Your spleen also plays a role in your immune health by producing immune cells. It also helps filter and cleanse your blood and it acts as a storage site for additional blood which may be needed if you ever lose a significant amount of blood all at once.
So without these players working like they should, you run the risk of having weak immune functioning and are more susceptible to viruses, infections and diseases of all kinds.
Pamper yours!
Now that you know all that your humble yet mysterious lymphatic system does for you, it’s vital to take care of YOURS so it can continue to take care of YOU!
Here are the most effective ways to make sure your lymphatic system is working in tip-top shape to cleanse and protect you:
1- Get moving
Unlike your circulatory system which has your heart to pump blood through your body, your lymphatic system doesn’t have a similar pump to move lymph around.
So YOU have be the pump—by engaging in regular exercise!
That’s right—in addition to all of exercise’s other impressive health benefits, it also helps keep the lymph flowing through your body so it can do all of its important work.
No more excuses. Pick an activity, get your doc’s OK (especially if you’ve been an exercise-phobe for quite a while) and GET MOVING.
2- Get drinking (water, that is)
Water is essential for having proper blood levels and helping to flush wastes out of your cells (so your lymphatic system can pick them up and get rid of them all).
Eight glasses a day should be your minimum.
Another barometer is to drink the number of pounds you weigh in ounces of water. So if you weigh 150 pounds, you should be drinking 150 ounces of water each day.
A good way to tell if you're drinking enough water is to look at your urine. If it's dark yellow and opaque at any time other than first thing in the morning, you likely need more water.
3- Stop creating the garbage
A great way to help your lymphatic system in its role of cleaning your body is to create less garbage to begin with!
That means ditching the processed foods and fast foods and instead having a diet of real foods—fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry, fish, whole grains, dairy and healthy fats.
Plus having good digestion helps more wastes and toxins to be eliminated in the digestive process (as in, when Nature calls), so they never even reach your cells and stress your lymphatic system to have to pull them out!
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Not only will this help encourage regular, easy bowel movements, but it can also help curb other digestive problems like acid reflux, gas and bloating.
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4- Give those immune cells a good home
Although your lymphatic system’s bone marrow and spleen produce most of your immune cells, the vast majority of those cells take up residence in your GUT.
So it’s crucial to make sure that you provide a healthy gut environment to house these life-saving protectors—and the key to that is having a healthy intestinal flora balance!
Having a good
diet certainly helps this cause, but for many people (especially people who are
constipated a lot, people who eat a lot of refined carbs and people who use
antacids) it's typically not enough.That's why supplementation with a multi-strain probiotic formula like Super Shield is such a good idea for so many.
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Super Shield contains a variety of 13 robust probiotic strains (including both the Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus species) that will comfortably line your gut wall and help make it less porous, help protect you from toxins and keep your digestion in tip-top shape so you can eliminate harmful substances before they try to eliminate YOU!
Congratulations! You are now an expert in your lymphatic system and hopefully have an appreciation for how it is keeping you healthy and, well, alive.
Do all you can to keep it strong and efficient so it can help keep YOU going well into your golden years.
To your health,
Sherry Brescia
PPS: Beatriz is free of heartburn, she has more energy and is down 10 pounds!
My life has taken a 360 degree turn and as for me there is no going back.
As I was reading your book Great Taste No pain, I felt that was me with all the visits to the emergency room, stomach pain, heartburn, bloating, gas, etc. I remember as young as 14 years old having stomach discomfort.
At 20 a visit to the emergency room with a stomach of a 6 month pregnant woman and unbearable pain was the very start of my long relationship with doctors specially gastroenterologists.
At 40, after being diagnose with a hiatus hernia (don't know if that is the right spelling), I had exploratory surgery where my gallbladder was removed. Oh what a relief, or not. At the beginning I felt relief of the constant pressure and pain in my stomach. Not even a week has passed by, when I started with new symptoms, diarrhea every time I had cheese.
This time the diagnosis was lactose intolerance after once again another visit to the emergency room.
I started taking pills for that but since I have never been able to get rid of heartburn, then I was put on Omeprazole. I was taking omeprazole and lactaid for a few years but a few months ago nothing seems to work. I had terrible gas that was stuck in my chest and even drinking just water will upset my stomach and create a lot of bloating and painful gas.
A friend of mine introduced me to your Great Taste No Pain program. I started on it 4 weeks ago. The test drive brought immediate relief by the end of the first day. I am totally pain free and no heartburn. I have not taken a single pill in 4 weeks (no more meds).
I recently started your Super Shield probiotics and I am feeling the best I have ever felt. I sleep better and have more energy. I am very grateful to you for my life has changed for the best.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that although I have never been overweight, I was on the heavy side for my recommended weight according to my height and I have lost 10 pounds.
Sincerely,
Beatriz
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