| If you are not familiar with basic anatomy or | | | | fighters. |
| physiology, you've likely not heard much about the | | | | Certain white blood cells will produce special |
| lymphatic system. It's important to know what this is | | | | disease-fighting proteins- which will actually kill off |
| and how it affects your body. | | | | diseased and infected cells. They also help to "trap" |
| The lymph system is a network of vessels and filters | | | | germs in the body and kill them before they have a |
| (also known as "nodes") that act as a complex "toxin | | | | chance to spread further infection or disease |
| removal system" for the body- this network is | | | | throughout the body. This is why any type of |
| actually a drainage system for all of the various parts | | | | disorder of the lymphatic system will prevent the |
| of the body help to drain excess fluids from different | | | | body from being able to fight off infection and |
| parts of the body. If this fluid is not removed, then | | | | disease and lowers one's immune system. |
| toxins will build up in the body and cause swelling in | | | | While not actually a direct part of the entire "waste |
| areas where the fluid has been concentrated. | | | | management lymph system" of the body, the spleen |
| If the body is not properly drained of its toxins and | | | | is also a major player in helping to keep a person's |
| they are allowed to build up, this prevents the body | | | | immune system in optimum condition and it also helps |
| from fighting infection and disease. As a matter of | | | | the body fight infection and disease. The spleen also |
| fact, any type of malfunction in the lymphatic | | | | holds white blood cells that make disease-fighting |
| system will cause serious illness and wreak havoc on | | | | proteins (known as antibodies) that kill germs, |
| a person's body. This is because this system also is in | | | | viruses, bacteria's and any other types of cells which |
| place to help prevent lymph fluid from flowing back | | | | cause infection. |
| into body tissues and organs, which would be | | | | The spleen is important in one other aspect, and |
| tantamount to throwing sewage into drinking water | | | | although it works much like the lymphatic system- it |
| and then consuming it. | | | | also will kill any damaged cells that pass through and |
| Nature's own little waste-management system for | | | | get them out of the blood stream and bodily |
| the body is also the body's primary defense against | | | | systems. However, this is also why cancer is spread |
| diseases caused by viruses, bacteria's and even | | | | so easily and why lymph nodes that are very close |
| fungus. These disease causing things are removed | | | | to any type of cancerous tumors are usually also |
| from the body's bloodstream by the lymph nodes- | | | | removed along with the cancerous tumor- to help |
| this is because lymph nodes contain white blood cells, | | | | prevent the spread of cancer into other parts of the |
| which are the body's main disease and infection | | | | body. |