Your lymphatic system cleans up and disposes of waste left behind by the other systems of your body. It drains fluid back into your bloodstream by collecting excess fluid ( lymph fluid ) surrounding your body’s tissues and organs, cleans it up and returns it to your bloodstream. 

Here are the main functions of your lymphatic system

- filters lymph as it passes through your lymph nodes, the white blood cells attack any bacteria or viruses found in the lymph. 

- filters your blood via your spleen, removing old red blood cells and replacing them with new red blood cells that are made in the bone marrow.

- helps to remove toxins and other impurities from the body, such as carbon dioxide, sodium and other byproducts of cellular activity, removing them through perspiration, bowel movements, urine and your breath.

- defends your body against illness-causing germs, bacteria, viruses and fungi. The system builds immunity by making special white blood cells called lymphocytes that produce antibodies which are responsible for immune responses that defend your body against disease.

Your lymphatic system is an essential part of your immune system, this how you can support your body to fight off viruses.

Maintaining a healthy lymphatic system is important to prevent illness and keep other important body systems functioning. 

Support your lymphatic system by incorporating these suggestions into your day to day life 

• Drink plenty of water. The best water to drink is alkaline water followed by distilled water if possible. Otherwise filtered tap water, most important increase your water intake, with a squeeze of lemon in the morning is a great way to help your body to become more alkaline.

• Eat a healthy diet rich in alkaline foods and vegetables that provide a full range of vitamins, minerals and nutrients, such as green leafy vegetables, spinach, lettuce, kale, celery, parsley, rocket and mustard greens, green beans and green peas, broccoli. Onion, Garlic and Ginger. Root vegetables like sweet potato, beets and carrots. Fruits kiwi, pineapple, persimmon, nectarine, watermelon, grapefruit, apricots and apples.

• Include healthy fats in your diet. Cold pressed and raw, olive oil, hemp oil, pumpkin seed oil. Raw nuts are another good source.

• .Exercise every day if you can as the movement of your muscles and increased breath move your lymphatic system and help it to do its job. Go for a brisk walk in a park, dance, the lymphatic system responds well to twisting and jumping.

• Breathwork to stimulate the movement of lymph and to de stress you. When we lengthen and slow down or deepen and strengthen the breath the diaphragm, the dome muscle under the ribcage, moves more and stimulates the movement of the lymphatic system.

• Learn to manage stress through techniques such as yoga (also moves the lymph) meditation and exercise to promote wellness.

• Lymphatic massage, which is a specialized technique that differs from your usual massage. It has a set routine that systematically goes through the lymphatic system clearing, pumping and moving the lymph. It is a gentle and hypnotic relaxing experience.

• Aromatherapy massage uses specific oils to support your lymphatic system and is believed to help your body to fight viruses and bacteria. It is also a wonderful way of lowering stress

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2005 Jun; 2(2): 179–184.

Immunological and Psychological Benefits of Aromatherapy Massage

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