Andrew Huberman

If you ever see people doing Tai Chi type movements in the park in the morning, oftentimes they'll also include some shaking and things like that.

It might look a little goofy, but there's a clear, clear structural functional basis for why that would actually work.

And along those lines, if you ever were to look up lymphatic massage, either lymphatic massage or sometimes called manual lymphatic relief, it comes by different names,

Keep in mind, there are a lot of quality peer reviewed studies exploring this, mostly in the context of treating lymphedema, the clearance of lymphatic buildup.

under conditions of cancer.

Lots and lots of peer reviewed studies.

I've linked to some of those in the show note captions, which show over and over again, this can be a very useful practice.

There are also drugs that are being developed for clearing out of lymph fluid, so-called lymphedema.

Actually, a lab at Stanford School of Medicine is working hard.

They've identified some of the molecular players that can help move lymph fluid out under conditions of lymphedema.

I'll provide a link to an interesting discussion about that if you're curious about it, if you know someone who's undergoing

and suffering from lymphedema.

But lymphatic massage is a very common medical practice.

A couple of things about lymphatic massage that you should know.

I've had a lymphatic massage before and I was struck by how light the touch is.

This is not a deep tissue massage.

Lymphatic massage is intentionally rather light, and sometimes we'll transition from kind of a pushing along of the skin.

For those of you that do this professionally, forgive my lack of specificity here.

I'm going to make the point in a moment that the people who are skilled at doing this really need to be the ones doing this.

You could do it too for yourself.