Dr. Betty MurrayHelping Women Navigate Menopause | Speaker, Author, and Advocate for Women's Health Over 40

Lymphatic Support for Belly Fat? Foods That May Help

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Dr. Betty Murray explains that lymphatic congestion—manifesting as cellulite, excess belly fat, and hip weight—is a key factor behind stubborn body fat. She advocates decongesting the lymphatic system through a combination of herbs and berries, which bypass small‑intestine digestion and support gut‑associated lymphatic tissue, as well as lifestyle practices like yoga, deep breathing, and alkaline, deeply colored foods (berries, cherries, beets, pomegranate, cranberries). These colorful foods act as "lymphatic movers" by staining the skin and stimulating lymph flow, offering a natural strategy to reduce cellulite and belly fat.

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If you have lymphatic congestion, which would be cellulite, extra belly fat, that weight around your hips, that's clearly lymphatic congestion. So you have to decongest your lymphatic system. Things like, you know, herbs and berries are really cool for that 'cause they don't get digested in the small intestine. They go all the way, 95% of 'em go all the way to your gut and they actually support the integrity of the gut-associated lymph, which is where it all starts. That lymph around your belly is the lion's share of the lymph in your body. So those, those berries are so critical for the lymph, even though they're water soluble and they absorb into your blood, they don't even go into your lymph. They actually create a powerful support for the first part of the lymphatic system, which is around your gut, which is critically important. So again, we wanna decongest the lymph with yoga and breathing and alkaline foods and, you know, anything that would, you know, dye your skin red, black, or blue, like a berry or a cherry or a beet or a pomegranate or, or anything, cranberries that would make a white shirt red. That's going to be a lymphatic mover for you.