Andrew Huberman

And when you inhale, the diaphragm moves down.

Of course, the lungs inflate.

And ideally, your belly moves out a little bit, right?

We generally tell people that it's not so good to breathe by lifting your chest and using your ribs, although you can use the muscles between your ribs, the intercostals in your ribs to breathe, but you don't want to be breathing like this.

Ideally, diaphragmatic breathing is what you do most of the time.

unless you need to breathe much harder, and you're inhaling and your belly's moving out, okay?

When you inhale and your belly's moving out, you are certain that you're doing diaphragmatic breathing.

Diaphragmatic breathing creates a pressure differential between this cisterna chyli, right, this reservoir of lymph, and your blood supply, which has a different pressure within it.

And so if you do a few rounds of diaphragmatic breathing, and when I say rounds, I just mean a few breaths.

So inhale ,

and have your belly move out and then exhale, you're greatly encouraging the passage of lymph from the lymph vessels back into the blood supply, okay?

doing this just two or three times when you wake up in the morning, doing this two or three times in the afternoon or in the evening, or really any time that you remember will really encourage lymphatic drainage.

It will really encourage the movement of that lymph fluid.

And this is especially important to do if you're stuck on a plane or behind a desk, or you haven't had the opportunity to move quite as much

as you would like, because again, the other way to move lymph fluid along is through low level muscular contractions.

But if you're trapped behind a desk or an airplane seat, you can't do that.

So make it a point to do a few diaphragmatic breaths per day, and you will greatly encourage the movement and drainage of lymphatic fluid.

And it actually can make a cosmetic difference.

It can actually make a real difference in terms of less swelling of your lower body tissues, because as you clear the cisterna chyli,

you allow the lymph coming up from your legs and from other locations to also move up, right?