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Are your ankles puffy by 5pm?

This is the one bit of anatomy that changes how you think about sitting still. Your circulatory system has a pump in the middle of it. Your lymphatic system does not. There is no lymph heart. The fluid moves because your skeletal muscles squeeze the vessels as you use them, because the vessels themselves have small muscular segments that contract, because nearby arteries pulse against them, and because your diaphragm changes the pressure in your abdomen every time you take a real breath. The number, and it is a small study so take it as a direction rather than a dose: researchers injected a labeled tracer into the thigh muscle of eight men and measured how fast it cleared. During muscle contraction it cleared three to six times faster than at rest. Eight people. One muscle. Still, the mechanism is not in doubt, and it is the reason the answer to sluggish is almost always move, not buy. Which is also why we are not going to tell you to brush, scrape or drain anything. Your calves already do it for free. Deep breathing counts too, because your diaphragm is part of the machinery. Stand up and do twenty calf raises at the sink. That is the post.