The Lymphatic System
A network of healing and immunity
Day in and day out, your lymphatic system plays an integral role in health and wellbeing. Working in tandem with the cardiovascular system, the lymphatics maintain fluid balance, stage an immunity response, and stimulate healing.
Lymph is a clear liquid made of water, salt, lipids and white blood cells. It travels the body to complete three main jobs:
- nourish tissues
- fight off viral and bacterial invaders
- 'clean house' by collecting metabolic debris from cellular repair
Envision your lymphatic system as a dynamic highway network with interchanges and roadways consisting of lymph nodes, vessels and organs (tonsils, adenoids, spleen, thymus) that provides a pathway for lymph to flow.
Trauma and disease cause roadblocks which slow or even stop normal lymph circulation. That lymph traffic jam causes swelling, pain and a host of symptoms. The expert response crew is a certified MLD therapist using lymphatic massage techniques to increase lymph flow through or around roadblocks. Swelling drops, healing continues.
MLD therapy for health and healing
MLD therapy engages your lymphatic system to increase lymph flow. Then good things happen.