Dr. Chris van Tulleken

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Hello, welcome to Doctor's Notes.

I'm Dr. Chris Van Tulleken, as ever I'm here with my identical twin brother.

Now, Zandi, in the main ep, we talked about why everyone is talking about detoxing and hacking your lymphatic system.

And certainly, once you understand it and its ability to drain toxins, there's something superficially appealing about giving it a hand, kind of get where the social media hacks come from.

That is right, Zand.

And luckily we had Christiana Gordon with us to help us discard a lot of those misguided bits of advice on social media.

But there's so much more to explore and Christiana was good enough to stay with us a little bit longer.

Let's open the notes.

Christiana, thanks so much for staying for a deeper dive in Doctor's Notes.

Our young listeners are going to be, and our physician listeners are going to be, I think, looking to deal a credit or qualify in this.

So how did you get into this?

And you get to know your patients over a long time?

In the main episode, you mentioned treatment for lymphedema, compression, movement and skin care.

Are there surgical approaches that work?

That's the removal of fat tissue.

Does it work?

These things are perhaps not quite the width of a hair, but I mean, they're terribly, terribly tiny.

Like a minuscule thread vein that you might see in a skin.

Incredibly skilled surgery.