When overcoming mold illness, you not only have to detox through frequent bowel movements, but you also have to clean your lymphatic system.
If your body’s sewer system – your lymphatic system – becomes congested, this can lead to inflammation and disease. This is often the case in mold illness. Your sewer system gets clogged up with mold mycotoxins that your cells are trying to get rid of. Then your whole body begins to dysfunction.
Your Under Rated Lymphatic System Needs Regular Care
In a previous article, we discussed how when your colon is not open and working well, then other organs and your lymphatic system won’t be able to drain right either. Afterall, when functioning properly, your lymph drains into your colon and out as waste.
So if your lymphatic system isn’t working like it should, your skin, kidneys, and lungs will attempt to pick up the slack. As they work overtime, you may develop symptoms such as rashes, respiratory disease, and possible damage to your kidneys and liver.
Essentially, when your lymph is not flowing well, your cells become poisoned from their own waste. Your lymph fluid becomes an even more toxic dumping ground, resulting in fatigue, swelling, infection, inflammation, and disease. This is why you must keep your lymph moving – to become well and to stay well.
While your circulatory system has a pump (your heart), your lymphatic system does not. But that’s ok because you are fearfully and wonderfully made. And you can take actions to clean your lymph system so your body will function like it was made to.
10 Ways to Clean Your Lymphatic System So You Can Detox and Heal
1. Get upside down. An inversion table is a padded table that allows you to invert upside down while strapped in by your feet. This decompresses your joints and stimulates your lymphatic and circulatory systems.
2. Lymph-helping diet. There are herbal teas that help lymphatic action such as red clover, mullein, goldenseal, ginger, sarsaparilla (which binds endotoxins), goldenseal, cleavers, and olive leaf tea. Try to incorporate one of these teas or a blend into your daily routine. Teas are most effective if you drink several cups over the course of the day.
Plenty of fresh produce and other minimally processed, healthy foods also help maintain a strong gut-blood barrier, which prevents toxins and food irritants from leaking into the bloodstream (aka leaky gut syndrome).
These foods will lower your inflammation and the invasion of toxins that might otherwise clog up your lymphatic system.
3. Get a lymph massage. Lymphatic massage reduces swelling, helps detoxify your body, and helps speed up regeneration of your tissues and cells. You can go for a whole body massage or focus on targeted areas. For example, backed up lymphatic fluid in your head can contribute to head congestion, pressure in your head or ears, sinus congestion, vertigo, dizziness, or even insomnia.
4. Dry skin brushing. Dry skin brushing promotes lymphatic drainage of your toxic waste by helping it to move. Start a habit of dry skin brushing a few minutes before your shower or bath using an inexpensive natural bristle brush. Start at your extremities and brush toward your heart.
5. Alternate hot and cold in the shower. Lymphatic vessels contract when exposed to cold, and dilate in response to heat. A hot and cold shower is a type of hydrotherapy that uses the properties of water temperature and pressure to move stagnant lymphatic fluid. This will increase your circulation while boosting your immune function and metabolism.
After dry skin brushing, supercharge your morning shower by alternating hot and cold water for between 90 seconds and several minutes. Be sure to always end with cold water.
6. Movement of your body. Do yoga, walk, stretch, bounce on a rebounder or exercise ball, or jog – whatever gets your body moving without stressing it.
7. Deep Breathing. Deep breathing contracts your muscles and helps move your lymphatic fluid. Plus the mindfulness of deep breathing makes it one of the best ways to manage stress – one of the biggest factors in lymph congestion.
If you take mini time-outs throughout your day, close your eyes and take five to ten deep belly breaths. When you inhale, simply allow your belly to fully expand out like a balloon, and then slowly exhale as much as you can.
8. Infrared Sauna. Infrared saunas provide a gentle, side-effect-free, powerful tool for detoxification. Infrared waves penetrate deep into your body, elevating your body’s surface temperature, activating circulation, sweating and evacuation of toxins from your lymph and blood through your skin. The heat also increases your heart rate and encourages deeper breathing, which boosts the drainage process even further.
9. Loose fitting clothing (especially while you sleep). Tight-fitting clothes can contribute to a lot of problems, including restricted lymph flow. Wear comfortable clothes made from natural fibers such as cotton, silk, linen, wool, or other natural fibers. Otherwise, your skin absorbs the chemicals in synthetic clothing, taken into your lymphatic system and added to your body’s toxic burden.
10. Hydration. Hydrating daily with water is the most important because lymph becomes thicker and less able to move when you are dehydrated, but flows well when you are hydrated. Remember, you can dehydrate yourself by drinking too much water. Drink half your body weight in ounces of water, dispersed throughout the day, every day. Drink more if you are sweating.
In conclusion, you can clean your lymphatic system in many ways. Try any or all of these, because your lymphatic system is especially important as you rid your body of the mold mycotoxins. And this is the first phase of starting to feel like yourself! Click here to set up a complimentary Breakthrough call to see if we could work together.
