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Andrew Huberman

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Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

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.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

I confess, I own a small trampoline that I jump on in the morning.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

I just think it's fun.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

And it turns out to be really good for your lymphatic system as is treading water, excellent for your lymphatic system.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

Swimming, excellent for your lymphatic system.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

There are...

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

Great studies showing that.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

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?

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

Wouldn't this be like stamping the fluid down toward gravity?

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

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.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

And so we used to just like bend the cups there and we used to get yelled at, no Slurpee stamping.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

And we were like, we would do it anyway.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

I don't drink Slurpees anymore.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

So no Slurpee stamping, but we were pushing

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

that ice and fluid down so we could get more in there.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

Why would rebounding, jumping on a small trampoline or even shaking or jumping at all, why would it bring the fluid up?

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

Wouldn't it stamp it down?

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

Ah, those lymphatic vessels are one-way vessels.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

So as you shake the fluid, right, it's going up, up, up, up, up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Your Lymphatic System for Overall Health & Appearance

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.