@Kina the title contains "Autism" because this post is a continuation of a discussion that went off topic on the 'mess/clutter' thread. I asked a moderator to move those posts here. I figure they'll get around to it when they are able. No hurries.
Yes, this paragraph may "seem" to contain misinformation to someone who was unaware of these facts. I suffered extreme lymphodema and lymphodenopathy following an exposure to 2,4-D. Are you aware that 2,4-D causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma? In less than 2 weeks I expanded 5 dress sizes (14-24). I felt like the blueberry gum chewing girl on Willie Wonka! I became so impacted everywhere on my body that I couldn't bend. It was horrible. Obviously, I had to study my brains out to figure out how to save myself from yet another horrific, torturous and bizarre problem.
A lot of what I say is going to 'seem' incorrect to conventional, allopathic medical practice because most of that system's healthcare workers haven't studied the specific things I have, nor to the depth I have. My mom has her BS in nursing, and has worked as a director of a State public health dept. I'm well aware of the limitations of general studies.
Yes, there are vessels and nodes, there is also a network of tiny capillaries that infiltrate every part of your body. For instance, Lymph fluid is pumped into an area where there is damage. You notice it as swelling. One of the purposes is to carry away the cellular waste and toxins.
Citation: "it
sic [lymph] plays critical roles in immune defence and in metabolic maintenance. Indeed, it functions as an interface between our body and the environment. It is a pre-eminent player in the body’s response to pathogens and acts as the physical basis of the immune system by providing conduits and lymph nodes for the presentation of potentially harmful antigens from the environment to immune cells, leading to recognition and initiation of an immune response. It is important for energy storage and metabolic functions, most notably by supplying a route for ingested lipids to be absorbed, stored and metabolized. Finally, it serves as a collective ‘garbage dump’, where dead cells, bacteria, poisons, toxins and excess fluids are deposited from bodily tissues. Subsequently, it indirectly delivers these substances via the blood to the organs of detoxification including the liver, kidneys, skin, lungs
and large colon for eventual elimination." (Bold italics mine)
From
Review article: lymphatic system and associated adipose tissue in the development of inflammatory bowel disease
P.-Y. Von Der Weid and K. J. Rainey, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04407.x
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Volume 32, Issue 6, pages 697–711, September 2010"
Lymphadenopathy is where there are so many toxins, un-broken down by cellular glutathione (in my case because of severe glutathione deficiency) that the lymph system becomes congested and impacted.
A healthy, normally functioning liver uses glutathione (made in every cell in the body, and the excess is stored in the liver) to breakdown toxins. Those toxins, and some of the other water soluble impurities are then removed via the route through the kidneys. BUT thats not the only way the body removes toxin. Toxins are also removed via lymph dump to the bowels. (see citation above) Or else, practically speaking, what would be the point of doctors doing stool sampling for toxins?!! Lymph also removes toxins through the skin via sweat.
Yes fat traps toxins.
Citation: "Lipophilic toxins have been introduced into the environment both as functional compounds, such as pesticides, and as industrial waste from incineration or the manufacture of electrical transformer components. Among these substances are compounds that are carcinogenic and that affect the endocrine system. Accidental high exposures of humans to some lipophilic toxins have produced overt disease symptoms including chloracne and altered liver function. These toxic materials have been the recent focus of international effort to reduce or eliminate classes of halogenated hydrocarbons from the environment. Evidence of the widespread distribution of lipophilic toxins in the biosphere has been obtained by analyses of human tissues and human milk. The principal route of entry of lipophilic toxins into humans is through the food chain, and most of them are stored in adipose tissue. A common route of excretion is in bile, but there is also evidence of nonbiliary excretion into the intestine. Enterohepatic circulation of many of these compounds slows their removal from the body. Substances that interrupt the enterohepatic circulation of compounds that enter the intestine by the biliary and nonbiliary routes increase the rate of their removal from the body and reduce their storage half-lives. Reduction in body fat, along with these dietary substances that interrupt enterohepatic circulation, further enhances the excretion rate. Areas for further research include optimizing regimens for body burden reductions, understanding the nature of nonbiliary excretion, and following the effects of tissue redistribution during loss of body fat."
Lipids, December 2001, Volume 36, Issue 12, pp 1289-1305
Factors affecting the storage and excretion of toxic lipophilic xenobiotics, Ronald J. Jandacek, Patrick Tso,
And, this link to an article where various oils are used orally in livestock care to trap lipophilic toxins
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jf00109a022
Yes large molecules (not all, just large ones) of fat are too big to pass through the intestinal walls. Evidenced when your poop is orange-ish and floats...