mld and cancer

Your lymphatic system is a collection of organs and vessels that play a key role in the following functions:

maintenance of fluid in our tissues
Have you ever wondered where swelling (edema) in our skin or body parts comes from? Blood is continuously circulating around our body to provide nourishment for every cell in the body. As a result of that blood circulating, water leaves our blood vessels and ends up in the spaces between our cells (interstitium) under the skin. If we didn’t have a vast network of lymphatic vessels to remove this water, we would constantly have edema. . Edema is the medical term to describe the build up of fluid (swelling). Unlike our cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system does not have a pump to move this fluid so our lymphatic system needs some help in the form of movement, exercise and MLD.

helps us to absorb fats and fat soluble vitamins in the digestive tract
We have a collection of lymph vessels in our digestive tract that are responsible for absorbing large lipid (fat) molecules and with those molecules are the fat soluble vitamins that are essential for human health such as vitamin A, D, E and K.

plays a crucial role in our immune response
Circulating in our lymphatic vessels is lymphatic fluid that contains the water collected from the interstitium and our army of immune fighting cells. Some of these cells are also found in the many lymphatic organs such as our thymus gland, spleen and lymph nodes.