Video

Transcript

hey guys dr. Burke here in this video

we’re going to talk about the lymphatic

system now what is this system it’s kind

of like an extension of your circulatory

system your blood vessels and

capillaries has some unique properties

number one it carries oxygen to

throughout the body into the cells it

carries nutrients hormones it removes

waste it also has an immune component

part to attack you know viruses that’s

why you wouldn’t have your lymph nodes

and your neck or your armpits or your

groin those lymph nodes are there to

detect and test out if there’s a microbe

coming in the body it’ll send signals to

certain glands to make white blood cells

to start generating antibodies and

killer T cells to actually defend you so

it’s actually trying to protect you okay

so we have that and then we have a fluid

balance too so some people have

lymphedema it’s like a lot of swelling

in their body and the lymph system

controls that now if we look at the

exchange between the arteries the

capillaries which are small little

arteries and the lymph they basically

work together with ace with a little

space that’s called interstitial space

or the space basically it’s just the

space between the lymphatic system the

cells and the capillaries and that space

has plasma plasma is basically kind of a

combination between water liquid protein

hormones and electrolytes and the

electrolytes allow for the travelling of

this fluid back and forth okay so it’s

it’s kind of a complex system but this

is the basics of it so you have this

exchange going back and forth you have

an unique properties with the limp that

it can carry pretty much large particles

of fat through the body that cannot

necessarily be carried through the blood

at this point they have to be broken

down and then you have different

lymphatic organs like the spleen well

the spleen doesn’t really do a lot with

the lymph it does a lot with the blood

cells it’s basically like a mini

junkyard

that recycles red blood cells it does it

but 2 million it replaces 2 million red

blood cells every single second so it’s

a highly efficient machine and it also

has some other functions with digestion

food or not then you have the thymus the

thymus by the way the spleens on the

left side over here and the thymus is on

top of the heart right here the thymus

is kind of like a training camp for

immune cells so it trains them to fight

off infection and there’s a lot of

mysterious unknown they don’t really

know what it does but we they know that

it does that so if there’s a virus that

comes in the body the lymphatic system

will trigger it it will work with other

glands like the adrenals to start to

generate an immune defense because the

menials are connected to stress and so

and the interesting thing about viruses

viruses don’t really have any power of

itself it’s basically an inactive

genetic code wrapped in a little sack

and it waits until your cells are weak

and then it gets into the body and it

hijacks the Machine of your own cells

it basically hijacks the copy machine I

know it’s kind of weird

so it basically will start making copies

of the cell at a very fast rate to the

point where there’s so many copies of

that virus in that cell that the cell

explodes and then it travels on and

other places to invade so the really

only defense to viruses is to keep your

body really really healthy ok and if we

talk about foods

related to your lymphatic system really

you’re dealing with just a healthy diet

there’s not really a specific food that

attacks just the lymphatic system you

just have to eat healthy if for example

you have a severe protein deficiency

like in starvation because fluid follows

protein what happens the protein the

blood goes down and then the fluid

actually goes out of the blood into the

interstitial space

and you can actually started having

swelling in the ankles edema and even in

the gut okay so you see like these kids

and these little kids in Africa that are

starving and then of these huge bellies

that’s low protein so low protein diets

can create a lot of problems with with

fluid balance in the body so that’s an

interesting thing one last point about

the limp is that it doesn’t have a pump

like the artery system has the heart

it pushes fluid by motion so if you’re

sitting all day you’re not getting a lot

of exercise you’re not getting activity

the limp kinda just stays stays there

and hangs out it doesn’t do much so it’s

very important to stay active and also

breathing will help push it as well

through the system okay so those are

some interesting points about the limp

hope you enjoyed it I’ll see you next

video hey guys thank you so much for

watching please click the subscribe

button and I will see you in the next

video