Fight Infection with Yoga
When you contract and stretch muscles, move organs around, and come in and out of yoga postures, you increase the drainage of lymph (a viscous fluid rich in immune cells). This helps the lymphatic system fight infection, destroy cancerous cells, and dispose of the toxic waste products of cellular functioning.
This, of course, is only one of the many ways yoga can be beneficial to your health. Read 37 other ways yoga can help keep you fit.
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