The secret to staying healthy: the lymphatic system

Let’s talk about your body’s sanitation system. Did you know that the lymphatic system circulates, cleans, and filters all the waste from the blood that remains in the body? Surprisingly, there is three times more lymph than blood in the body. This system is far too important not to provide information about it before the toxic products of this consumerist society overwhelm our primary detoxification system.

The digestive tract contains up to 80% of our immune cells. They are part of the lymphoid tissue associated with the digestive tract. From our tonsils and adenoids in the throat to the colon, the digestive tract is the reservoir of the lymphatic system. The lymphocytes, or white blood cells that are part of the lymphatic system, are also stored and manufactured in the thymus gland, behind the heart, spleen, appendix, bone marrow, and lymph nodes located throughout the body. Do you see how important the mouth-to-colon route is to our health? Why would the body place almost our entire immune system there if exposure to food wasn’t so vital?

What is the role of the lymphatic system?

This is the body’s sanitation system. The body pumps 90% of blood back to the heart. The remaining 10% is known as lymph, which has no pump system to transport it to the lymphatic channels for elimination. All viruses, bacteria, toxins, cancer cells, and chemicals pass through the lymph, where the body is alerted if a foreign particle needs to be eliminated.

Take a few moments to consider this fact! Every cancer diagnosis is made from a lymph node biopsy. Why? Lymph is the waste product of the blood that circulates through all organs continuously every day. If it doesn’t circulate properly (as it does in most Western countries, due to the Standard American Diet that tends to prevail), toxins and cancer cells cannot be flushed out of the lymphatic vessels, ultimately leading to detoxification in the liver or kidneys. The waste is then continuously eliminated through the intestines. It infests the system and is not recognized by the lymph’s immune system but still slowly infiltrates the organs where it multiplies and causes metastasis.

This is how cancer spreads. This is why every diagnosis is associated with a lymph node biopsy, and it’s bad news if the cancer is localized there. These cells have been transported throughout the body, and Western medicine then begins toxic chemotherapy due to systemic spread. Chemotherapy doesn’t have the ability to distinguish between healthy cells and cancer-causing cells; therefore, it creates apoptosis, or cell death, for every cell in its path. This explains why it is absolutely necessary to maintain healthy circulation of the lymphatic system so that it can alert immune cells if there is a problem and quickly move lymph to the liver for detoxification and to the colon for elimination.

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