Andrew Huberman

And that's why these people often need a fair amount of lymphatic manual drainage or massage, it's sometimes called, in order to encourage the movement of the lymph fluid out.

And as I mentioned earlier, there are drugs being developed to try and treat lymphedema through non-manual massage techniques.

but that's still very much in development.

But there's great hope for that because as you can imagine, not everyone has access to proper lymphatic massage for lymphedema, but it's a very important aspect of cancer treatment and management of cancer treatment.

Lymphedema is something that we should all be mindful of, even minor lymphedema.

And this means even if you're not dealing with cancer treatment, you should be cognizant of whether or not you're getting some limb swelling due to lymphedema.

A little bit, fine.

You put your feet up, you know, we'll talk about ways to clear it from your brain in a few minutes, but

You know, lymphedema and that buildup causes a number of problems.

First of all, the waste products in the interstitial fluid that's accumulating there because you're not getting enough lymph drainage can cause local inflammation, which can give way to more global inflammation.

It also so happens that you get a thickening of the tissue in that area in response to that inflammation, and that thickening of the tissue

causes a hypoxia or a low oxygen availability for the cells in that area.

So that now you've got more cells that get less oxygen that they need and the whole thing starts to cascade.

So while I'm not trying to alarm anybody, you do want to do things to encourage that clearance of fluid and waste products from the interstitial space into the lymphatic system.

And we talked about some of the things you can do

for that earlier.

There are other tools, by the way, that are more sophisticated.

Like for instance, they have compression boots.

If you've ever been on a plane or you've been running a lot or basically using the tissues of your lower body or upper body a lot.

If you've ever run a 10K or a half marathon or a marathon