Now, swollen legs are called edema. If you look this up, it’ll say that it’s a liver problem, a kidney problem, or a heart problem. Maybe you’re consuming too much sodium, but that’s not always the case. There’s something else way more common, and I’m going to share that with you today. This is totally easy to fix. When you apply what I’m going to show you, you will fix this very fast without taking a blood thinner or some type of diuretic to push the fluid out. I mean, those come with side effects.
When you have fluid retention, especially in your lower legs and ankles, this boils down to a problem with these little tiny pumps that are not working in your cells. You have millions and millions of these little tiny pumps that push fluid in and out of the cell. The specific pump that’s not working in this case is called the sodium-potassium pump.
The Sodium-Potassium Pump
There are some really interesting things about this pump. It uses like 30 to 40% of all the energy that is given to that cell. But if that pump goes bad, like in our house when the pump went bad, we had about a foot of water in our basement. If the pump goes bad in your body, you’re going to have a lot of fluid that is not going to be in the cells; it’s going to be outside the cells, and that’s called interstitial fluid retention.
Glycation and Blood Sugar
