SIBO and the Lymphatic System with Dr Ginger Nash - Part 1

In today’s episode, Dr Nirala Jacobi is in conversation with Dr
Ginger Nash about the importance of lymphatics.


Dr Nash graduated from the National College of Naturopathic
Medicine in 1998 and has been 20 years in clinical practice doing
excellent work in women’s health. She uses natural hormone
balancing techniques without the use of hormone replacement. Dr
Nash also uses complex homoeopathy, herbal medicine and
nutrigenomics.  Dr Nash has been a professor at the
University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine Clinic
for six years and has taught seminars for other health care
professionals throughout the US and Canada.  Dr Nash is a
sought-after speaker and has recently launched an online health
program for women called Feminology.


 


Topics discussed include


The importance of the lymphatic system

Lymphatic system serves as the entry point for all the
dietary lipids, which are taken up by the enterocytes
(epithelial cells of the intestines) and the whole mesentery
- the lymphatic support system that surrounds the small
intestines.

There is an intricate relationship between the lymphatic
system and the gut.



What is Dr Nash always considering when she starts treatment
with a new patient and for continued patient care?

If our lymphatic system stopped flowing we would die within a
few hours.

Lymphatic testing as part of initial workup.

Key lymphatic tissue areas to inspect.

The connections between lymphatic health and hormones.

Miasmatic approach - what is it?

Medicines and considerations to work on drainage,
normalising, and detoxifying the emunctories.

Reckeweg medicines

Organ system approach

Terrain approach

Considering miasmatic influences



What medicines are suggested to start with for sensitive
patients?

What identifying symptoms or factors would alert the
practitioner to look to the support the lymphatics in particular?

Essential roles of the lymphatic system

Immune system

Moving immunoglobulins and white blood cells around
the body



Detoxification

Eliminating toxins from the body



Help the body to eliminate FIRST before doing more
pointed detoxification protocols and medicines.

People with massive reactions to detoxification and the
link to an overloaded lymphatic system.

Chronic digestive disorders

How is the enteric nervous system connected with both
the lymphatic system and immune system, and how do
infections impact them all?



Scars or taught sections of the body and how this impacts
on lymphatic flow.

The link between constipation, SIBO, the lymphatics, and
reactivity.

Home treatments to help move the lymph.

How to consider the lymph before doing large detox
treatments.

Far infrared sauna and Swedish sauna protocols.

The 4 Miasms explained.

The importance of the fascia in controlling the whole
body.

Lymphatics and brain health.

Insights into homoeopathy.

Herbal remedies to stimulate and cleanse the lymphatics.

Extracellular matrix

Fluid outside of the cell - how to think of it in
relation to the lymphatics and nutrient uptake into
cells.



Ginger Nash’s clinical pearls.





 


Resources


Dr Ginger Nash

Dr Nash's website - .com

Feminology Facebook Group - co-founded with Dr Tara Naik

org launching soon

Practitioner training coming soon

Email drgingernash@gmail.com to join the practitioner
email list.



Dr Ginger Nash’s article on NDNR

The Lymphatic System - A Critical Factor in Female
Hormone System Balance