Easy Self-Care: Body Cleanse Lymph Release – by Margo Covington

2013-10-8 Shabel, Founder

Why Is The Lymphatic System Important?

Our lymphatic system can look like and act like a watershed as it provides four main functions:

1. Our “Immune System”: 600 to 1000 lymph nodes in the body work as filters or traps for foreign particles so that they can be detoxified. Every organ of the body has its own lymph nodes and lymph flow.

2. Recycling System: The cleaner lymph fluids are returned to the blood.

3. Sewage System: The “trash” in the lymphatic system is sent downstream to exit the body. The colon can be described as the “bottom of the lymphatic watershed”. So colon health is key to ensuring your body is working as cleanly as possible. If you can’t get the trash out of your body, it remains in your body.

4. Toxin Sequestration / Dehydration: The wastes that the body cannot get fully out are stored and dehydrated in places that can feel like sticky mucous, cottage cheese, or pancake that can be the feeding grounds for bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeasts (e.g. candida) and even cancer. Like “beaver dams” or “log-jams” in the lymph these congested areas can collect more gluey wastes.

How Do We Get Lymphatic Congestion?

The No-Guilt Reason: With the 85,000 man-made chemicals currently on the market that are used in products we touch, breath, eat or drink, we are asking our bodies to metabolize chemicals that our ancestors never had to deal with. Even if we do “all the right things”, we still have a heavier toxic load than our ancestors.
Other Reasons: Tight fitting clothes (including underwire bras), dehydration, a blow to the body, foods (especially white flour, dairy, processed foods) can all slow down lymphatic flow, starting the logjams of congestion.

Four practically free, simple things you can do!

1. Drink Water:

Did you know that your body is about 80% water? (Your body is NOT 80% soda pop, coffee, or energy drinks!) And that makes water the magic elixir for health! Drinking water… staying hydrated… is one of the least expensive ways to stay healthy. Experts say we should drink half our body weight in ounces per day. So someone who is 150 pounds should drink 75 ounces of water a day. Water helps you digest, helps transport the nutrients through your body, and importantly – washes the wastes downstream for elimination.

2. Exercise:

3. Eat Well:

Eat foods that help you poop one more time a day. Cooked beets and artichokes, or raw or leafy greens, are some of my and my clients ‘ perennial favorites. Freshly blended green drinks of vegetables, fruit and nuts are my current favorite. (I’m sipping as I prepare this handout.) Probiotics aid digestion: lactobacillus, the well-known live culture in yogurt, is famous for providing good probiotics that help our digestion. Many modern products advertised on TV provide ways of understanding the benefits. Named “lacto..” because it was first found in cow’s milk. However, the cows get it from eating grass… as in leafy greens! You can also purchase pro-biotics at your local natural food grocery store. So get it how you wish!

Savor your good food: the more you chew your food before you swallow, the smaller the particles are as they enter your stomach. That means you get more food value for everything you buy, AND it means the molecules will be smaller and less likely to logjam when they get to your lymphatic system.

4. Start by cleaning from the bottom of your lymphatic watershed.

If you’re feeling clogged, bloated, yucky, in pain… or you already have cancer or other diseases…. Start by cleaning from the bottom of your lymphatic watershed.

No matter your age… so many of us are already feeling the slow… slow… slow… build up of lymphatic congestion. Most people say “That’s just how it feels to get older.” Imagine a bathtub with a leak… with the plug in the bottom. The overflow isn’t a problem… until it IS a problem. Or you’ve seen the advertisements on TV about the slow build up of plaque in the blood. The blood (circulatory system) and the lymphatic system can be seen much like this… a slow build up of sticky, gooey, gluey build up over decades… that isn’t a problem until it IS a problem. So you start by cleaning your lymphatic system from the bottom up…breaking up the logjams at the bottom of the watershed. The upstream portions flow more easily, more effortlessly. So foods (above) and enemas and colonics can help.

Enemas or Colonics: Enemas are washing your colon (and lymphatic system) from the bottom up. You can do these yourself with an inexpensive enema bag like your grandmother used. Colonics are when you go to a Colon Hydro-therapist who is professionally trained in offering a more thorough washing of the colon. If you do a lot of these, you’ll want to make sure to ask your physician or nutritionist about probiotics and enzymes balance in your body. Contact me for more information and local recommendations.

You can’t hurt yourself: Getting healthier and healthier in these simple ways can only help you. Of course, pay close attention to how you feel and contact your doctor for issues that concern you at all. If you have been diagnosed with cancer or other conditions, this advice is considered only supplementary and not medical advice. Contact your physician for that. Each client brings their own “team” of doctors, practitioners, & techniques. I work with any / all.

Please contact me: I am a cancer survivor without chemotherapy or radiation (thyroid cancer, almost 9 years ago), and work with many who are in various stages of the “cancer dance,” so I have much personal and professional understanding of cancer, as well as other diseases. My Body Cleanse Lymph Release Method has helped many clients have remarkable results they can see and feel. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via email at bodycleanselymphrelease@gmail.com, or see my website. www.margocovington.com.

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