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What is the Lymphatic System?

In Human Physiology (1961), Dr. Charles Guyton states that every disease known to man is initially caused by blockages in the lymph system. The lymph affects the body's defenses because it is the base of the IMMUNE SYSTEM and effects the homeostatic system by maintaining the correct environment for all cells to thrive. It is the purification and oxygen delivery system on the cellular level. Therefore, it affects everything in the body.

The body must be cleansed nourished, loved and cared for, not like a car, but like a body. What the body needs to stay energetic, healthy, alert, strong, in youthfulness and total harmony, is proper rest, exercise, and nutrition. This is explained in further detail during treatment.

The lymphatic system looks like the arteries or the circulatory system. It has main arteries, nodes, and tiny capillaries that go between the spaces of the cells. It is the system that cleanses our bodies at the cellular level. The billions of cells that make up our bodies are maintained by the lymphatic system.

The lymphatic system flows in an upward motion, or against gravity, and takes oxygen, nutrients, and minerals to our cells and removes cellular debris, toxins, and poisons, excess proteins, and excess water from spaces between the cells.

The Lymph System

The Circulatory System This picture shows only surface lympharteries, 60% of all lymph arteries are close to the surface. The remaining 40% permeate throughout the deep tissues of the body

Picture courtsy of Samuel L. West, N.D. from his book "Golden Seven Plus One"