#247 Should You Purge After a Lym...
#247 Should You Purge After a Lymphatic Drainage Treatment?

I AM | Jen WIlson, The Healing Rebel by I Am | Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel Podcast

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Should you purge after a lymphatic drainage treatment?

Short answer: no.

I'm Jen Wilson, The Healing Rebel, and this episode is me getting into why the "go hard or go home" mentality has crept into lymphatic drainage, why some practitioners are pushing aggressive treatments designed to make you purge afterwards, and why that's the opposite of what your body actually needs to heal.

This episode came out of a conversation with a fellow massage therapist friend whose client kept going to someone else for lymphatic drainage because she always had a big purge afterwards. My reaction was: no. That's not what's meant to happen.


What I cover:

What purging actually is and when it's appropriate (sickness, diarrhoea, your body clearing something genuinely harmful)

Why a treatment that makes you purge is too a ... 

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