Andrew Huberman

Because you're just creating room for it to move into those now empty tubes.

So while things like rebounding and turns out treading water in a pool or swimming in a pool is an excellent way to create lymphatic drainage.

I mean, it's one of the best ways,

just because of the way that the physics of the water interacts with those superficial vessels of the skin.

You know, as you swim, there's kind of a shearing along of the skin.

You might not notice it unless you use a slow motion camera, but there's kind of a rippling of the skin and those lymphatic vessels that sit just below the skin, those really tiny little capillaries, they're getting kind of squeezed along by the movement, that shearing of the skin along the top.

So swimming is great.

It's sometimes hard to get access to a pool.

A really fun way to do this as well as you can kind of go down to the bottom of the pool and then blast off the bottom, grab a gulp of air, go back down and blast up and grab a gulp of air.

For those of you that have ever seen

Laird Hamilton, the great surfer, Laird Hamilton, and Gabby Reese, who's also great, his wife, they've developed tools and protocols for this called XPT.

I don't have any formal affiliation with XPT, but they've developed a whole set of workouts related to this for general health reasons, for athletic performance.

And it will also improve lymphatic drainage and lymphatic passage up from the bottom of the body.

And you can think about the physics of bouncing off the bottom of the pool, like doing a squat and then grabbing a gulp of air and going back down and up.

that's almost perfect for what we're trying to accomplish when we talk about the movement of lymphatic fluid up and back toward the heart.

But most people don't have access to a pool.

So low-level muscular contraction from walking, diaphragmatic breathing.

If you want to get a rebound or a little trampoline, they're kind of fun.

I think they're fun anyway.

hard to travel with.