Candida And Lymphatics

Your Lymphatic System is a vast, complex network of capillaries, thin vessels, valves, ducts, nodes and organs that help to protect and maintain the internal fluid environment of the entire body by producing, filtering and conveying lymph and producing various blood cells (Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary). The importance of this system is of primary concern to your health.

Lymph needs nutrition to remove waste matter from your cells, and is then filtered through lymph nodes back to the bloodstream by which it is eliminated. You may recognize these tiny "garbage pails" as the occasional painful lumps in your armpits and groin. There is no other route through which excess proteins and large particulate matter, that seeps from the blood capillaries into these spaces around the cells, can return to the circulatory system.

This protein/particulate matter, including overlarge fat molecules from a leaky gut called trapped proteins, must be removed from the spaces between cells, or we would die within 24 hours! (Textbook on Medical Physiology, Ninth Edition, Guyton & Hall)

Much of the protein and other debris Dr. Guyton refers to consists of Candida, alive and dead, picked up from the GI tract, that has become trapped, causing fluid retention in the spaces around the cells. So-called "trapped" proteins that are unable to find their way back into the bloodstream produce inflammation, pain and disease.

Your Lymphatic System has no pump, such as the heart that pumps and circulates your blood, it depends upon exercise to keep it moving, especially walking and weight bearing exercise. This is so because it's the expansion and contraction of muscles that pumps and moves the lymphatic fluid throughout the body.

For example, routine exertion pushes lymph through its network at the rate of only about 4.25 ounces per hour. However, vigorous exercise boosts this amount to as much as 61 ounces, or approximately two quarts of fluid. Too little exercise will result in lymphatic stagnation, edema of lower limbs and inadequate removal of waste matter from around the cells. It is this congestion that allows infection to flourish. (The Seven Golden Plus One, C. Samuel West, N.D.)

It's a vicious cycle: Because of Candida over-growth you developed a leaky gut condition, which allows foreign invaders into your bloodstream. This results in the formation of antibodies to oppose the invaders creating even more overgrowth! Round and round it goes until such debris is trapped by your lymphatic system and eliminated from your body.