The word LYMPH is Greek for WATER!

The human body can retain 90lbs of excess fluids - Guyton Medical Textbook of Physiology

5 gallons of excess fluid in abdominal cavity = 40lbs

The body will retain water when you are constipated to dilute poisons.

Water is necesary to flush toxins but if your salt intake is greater the body will retain water as salt attracts it.

If you retain water WATCH FOOD LABELS

High in salt  = 0.5g or 1.25g per 100g

Low in salt  = 0.1g or 0.25g per 100g

How big your lymphatic system is and how it moves fat!

Your body has an estimated 2 and half million miles of lymph capillaries and transport vessels in its system.

1lb of fat needs 8 miles of capillaries to transport. You have between 200 & 400 lymph nodes in and around your stomach, 700 - 1,000 all over your body.

The large FAT molecules from your food is collected by the lacteals of the lymphatic system directly into the small intestine - this turns lymph fluid milky white in colour and is called `chlye`. It was first discovered in 1622 by Gaspard Asselli an Italian pysician.

Trans fats are the equivalent of eating a rubber band compared to an avocado. This is why they are trying to ban them, we know how bad they are, they are literally clogging up our lymphatic transportaion and immunity is impaired.

Your lymphatic system also transports waste and toxins through your body including poisons. A poison dilates the blood capillaries which opens up the tiny pores (like shock) and lets the blood proteins filter into the spaces around the cells faster than the lymphatic system can remove them.

Bowel cancer is less easily detectable but more common in the overweight. Poisons kept in the body in the bowels are already in the danger zone.

The Liver is the biggest and next to the heart the most important organ in the body. The lobes of the liver are made up of tiny lobules just visible to the naked eye.

Connected directly to the lymphatic system, each lobule within the liver is surrounded by lymphoid tissue and a system of lymph vessels are present in each lobule.

The most active organ of the body because it works 24/7 keeping our bodies system working and our bodily functions in control by;

• Producing urea and uric acid - removes waste
• Converts glucose to glycogen - sugar regulation
• Desaturates fat - important for weight loss
• Uses energy and produces heat
• Secretes bile for digestion to take place
• Storage for Vitamins B12, A, D, E, K and Iron
• Synthesises Vitamin A
• Forms the plasma proteins and most of the blood clotting factors
• Detoxicates drugs and noxious substances
• Metabolises ethanol in alcoholic drinks
• Inactivates hormones, including insulin, glucagon, cortisol, aldosterone, thyroid and sex hormones.

You don`t have to be a scientist to realise if your liver is sluggish it will have a degenerative effect on your health and well being.

MLD and specific massage movements can revitalise and help cleanse the liver, keep it functioning efficiently and you will certainly feel the benefit.

Signs of a sluggish liver can be swelling, puffy eyes and a feeling of general tiredness, lethargy and no energy, maybe with a dull ache at bottom of ribs. Help avoid diabetes - get a healthier liver today.

If you have been on many tablets or take a lot of tablets for certain conditions over the years this will also effect the liver.

If you want to lose weight a healthy liver can help you achieve this.

If you have digestive problems it maybe that the liver isn`t doing its job.

Pitting is way of testing for severe fluid retention, called Oedema, and if it is severe it can be the first sign that you may be suffering from the condition called Lymphoedema 

If the sign shows positive then you do have a chronic fluid retention problem, which needs to be treated, immediately.

To test if you have this problem called PITTING:

- With the thumb press very firmly on the that is area swollen and count to 30, when you take your thumb away if the skin stays indented then it is positive (as shown in picture)

How your body fights CANCER naturally!

Lymphocytes, Granulocytes, B Cells, T Cells, these white blood cells are part of your immune system.

As well as in the blood, lymphocytes are regulated and travel around our body in the lymphatic system. Lymphocytes are in your lymph nodes (or glands as they are called) and the body will increase their production during an infection or attack as long as it can flow properly.

But how do Lymphocytes fight cancer and why is so important to increase lymph flow?

These cells give off specific chemicals that destroy and fight any infection, disease, or foreign partical deemed an invader in the body. Known as immunity!

The same chemicals produced naturally in your lymph nodes are used to fight cancer, during cancer therapy treatment.

If your lymph flow is slowed or prevented to flow freely it stops the body from sending these cells to fight infection, disease or cancer cells, hence the importance of a healthy free flowing lymphatic system!

One of the American Cancer Society's key dietary recommendations to reduce the risk of cancer is to include cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli.

Sulforaphane is an isothiocyanate, an organic chemical compound that has been shown to inhibit the growth of carcinogen-induced cancer. Sulforaphane is found in cruciferous vegetables and is especially high in broccoli. Sulforaphane works by increasing the enzymes in your liver that destroy the cancer inducing chemicals you ingest in food or encounter in the environment

Sulforaphane has been found in laboratory studies to inhibit the growth of human breast cancer cells and stop the growth of human ovarian cancer cells. High intake of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables is associated with reduced risk of aggressive prostate cancer, and with a decrease in gastrointestinal and bladder cancers. The protective effect of cruciferous vegetable consumption on lung cancer has also been suggested.

Overcooking broccoli and cruciferous vegetables will dramatically lower the amount of cancer protective phytochemicals.

"The best way to prepare all these vegetables is to steam it lightly about 3 or 4 minutes, until they are is edible tough-tender."

Some other Cruciferous vegetables are; brussel sprouts, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy, chinese broccoli, horseradish, watercress, rocket, radish, garden cress.

For more info go to link -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous_vegetables