15/02/2026
Healthy and Happy Monday!! ;)
The golden key to health, wellness and longevity is the great Lymphatic system, which includes the interstitial spaces surrounding your cells.
Simply put, your body is a bunch of cells and two fluids: Blood and Lymph.
Cells make up your organs, glands, tissues, bones, etc. We are all made up of trillions of cells. Some are so small that you can hardly see them. Others are as much as a foot long!
The spaces around and between your cells are called interstitial spaces. These spaces are full of fluids, predominately Lymphatic fluid with a little Blood.
You have an incredible amount of interstitial fluid. Think about it. It’s the fluid that connects every single cell in your body!
Think of the Blood as a nutritional delivery system to your cells, and the Lymph is the sewer system for waste extraction. Simply put, the Blood feeds the cells and the Lymph cleans the cells.
Interstitial fluid is largely Lymphatic fluid.
When you pop a pimple, what do you see? 3/4 Lymph fluid and 1/4 Blood. It is the same throughout your whole body. Your Lymphatic fluid is nearly 3/4 of the fluid inside your body.
This major system is nearly three times larger than the Blood. And yet...very little is actually known or understood about the body's Lymphatic system. Now, why is that?
Not one course on Lymphology is being taught in any university, medical school or any other college in the US.
Even though the Lymphatic vessels are more extensive than the Blood vessels and there is more Lymph than Blood in the body, for every 200 pages in all the medical textbooks of anatomy, pathology and physiology, there is less than one page dedicated to share information about the Lymphatic system.
Why is it that doctors are not taught the Lymphatic system? It is the system where 99% of all disease originates. Why are they taught to look to the Blood for answers? Why is it that you can be full of pain and inflammation, have tumors all over your body, and yet have perfect Blood work?
This neglected area of research lays the scientific foundation of all the healing arts and reveals why it is possible for people to heal themselves without drugs, surgery, or medication of any kind.
Lymphatic fluid is a lipid-based fluid. When this fluid becomes stagnant, it dries up. Your interstitial spaces become dried. Your skin starts to dry. You may begin to experience dry mouth, dry eyes or start to cry acid (burning) tears. You're in trouble when acids start backing up and building up inside your body from a lack of kidney filtration.
An Acidic/mucus-forming diet of meat, eggs, dairy, starches, grains, refined sugars and processed foods will dehydrate and thicken Lymphatic fluid, turning it hard and compact.
Environmental toxins from drinking water, household cleaning products, personal hygiene products, paint, dust, etc., etc., can all negatively impact the health of your interstitial fluids.
Negative emotions and thoughts also create Acidic hormones which are further detrimental to this system.
Interstitial fluid should be somewhere around 7pH. This keeps it fluid and moving. But, when there’s too many Acidic foods in your diet the pH lowers as the fluid hardens. Minor changes in pH are enough to harden this fluid.
What do you think happens to your cells when they are encased in thickened, hardened fluid and mucus? Nutrition can’t get in and waste can’t get out. Deficiencies, anyone?
Cellular metabolic waste in the Lymphatic system is around 3.5 ph. When this Acid medium becomes trapped in the interstitial spaces it deteriorates the cell until the cell loses function. Acids burn, deteriorate and break things down. There are no two ways about it.
What does this mean? It means that if you’re experiencing any type of health challenge or breakdown of cellular structure and function, your interstitial fluid is too thick and Acidic and has hardened.
Water won't hydrate the cells interstitially. Lymph is a lipid (oily, cholesterol based) fluid. You need the fatty acids and astringency of fruits to break up thick, hardened Lymph.
You’ll feel this effect as pain and inflammation in the body, until the breakdown of cells sets in. That’s when you get a medical diagnosis of organ and gland failure or worse - abnormal cells.
It can take decades for the accumulation of waste to damage cellular structure to a point where you feel it. In reverse, it can take several years of dedication to clean your body and regenerate healthy cells.
Note: We all inherit a compromised Lymphatic system at birth as well as our organ and gland weaknesses in various levels of degeneration. To what degree explains quite a bit when it comes to childhood "disease."
How long it takes to clean the terrain depends on a number of factors: 1.) how long you have been misfeeding the body inappropriate foods, 2.) how Lymphatically dehydrated and congested your body is, 3.) how quickly you transition to eating hydrating, alkaline foods 4.) how much nerve energy you have available to clean once you correct the diet, 5.) how much time you can dedicate to resting and sleep. Getting adequate sleep and moderate exercise can help to speed the cleaning process as well as incorporating intermittent fasting, juice feasting and eating more water-rich fruits.
An Alkaline-forming diet full of living foods such as fruits, berries, melons, greens and vegetables in their natural state will rehydrate and cleanse the interstitial fluid keeping it fluid in its consistency.
All our cells need to be serviced on site with feeding and cleaning. Our diet supplies the chemistry and physics to do both when our primary food source includes ripe and pesticide-free fruits, berries and melons.
Regenerative detoxification unlocks the doors and eliminates obstructions to health so that you can look and feel your best and most vital self.
What you eat, what you drink, breathe, what you put on your skin, and what you think and feel determines the status of your health. If you’re unhappy with your health, then change these things.
Credits: Stephen E. West, DL, PMD, Ivan Bortic, DS, and Lauren Farris
Visual: Monica Lubanska
