Andrew Huberman
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I'm not calling them goofy, but they can look a little odd where people, you know, are talking about like shaking their body or they're talking about jumping up and down or rebounding, jumping on a small trampoline.
I confess, I own a small trampoline that I jump on in the morning.
I just think it's fun.
And it turns out to be really good for your lymphatic system as is treading water, excellent for your lymphatic system.
Swimming, excellent for your lymphatic system.
There are...
Great studies showing that.
And you might say, how is it that jumping up and down is moving lymphatic fluid up toward my heart because I'm jumping down?
Wouldn't this be like stamping the fluid down toward gravity?
When I was a kid, we used to go to 7-Eleven and we'd get Slurpees and we wanted to get as much Slurpee in there as we could.
And so we used to just like bend the cups there and we used to get yelled at, no Slurpee stamping.
And we were like, we would do it anyway.
I don't drink Slurpees anymore.
So no Slurpee stamping, but we were pushing
that ice and fluid down so we could get more in there.
Why would rebounding, jumping on a small trampoline or even shaking or jumping at all, why would it bring the fluid up?
Wouldn't it stamp it down?
Ah, those lymphatic vessels are one-way vessels.
So as you shake the fluid, right, it's going up, up, up, up, up.
There's another way to really encourage a lot of lymphatic flow, and this will serve people cosmetically and just generally in terms of feeling of more energetic and it's kind of a lightness in your lower limbs.