Do the Lungs As an Organ of Excretion Only Excrete CO2?
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Either I am poor at doing research from scientific articles, or that there is no such research published, but I have had to go solo on my personal experience to state this hypothesis:
That the lungs excrete more than just CO2, aside from phlegm and mucus formed from fighting off infection in the lungs.
But it also excretes the waste products from our immune system throughout our body (not just the lungs). I suspect this to be the case from my observations lately where I have a lot of dead red blood cells backed up in my lymphatic system and in my circulatory system.
Because my lymphatic system is backed up, I have a lymph node on my left elbow swell up, and I also have a high ESR (at 17 but was in the 50s at an earlier and worse case), which indicates a sludge buildup in my blood vessels from the carcass of rbc (red blood cells)'s that cannot be cleared by my backed up lymphatic system.
When I lie down, I have been producing white (actually transparent) phlegm every day. Each time, day and night, I would give off (no coughing or sneezing involved) an amount of phlegm ranging from 15 to 30 ml. Though I see this as a good sign, because it means my lungs are clearing the waste backed up in my lymphatic system. And as the backed up lymphatic is cleared, it will be able to process the sludge of rbc's in my blood vessels.
Why I think this to be what is going on?
Each night at 3-5 am, my spO2 levels drop. This drop does not indicate poor breathing, but indicates the activity of lung macrophages engulfing the waste coming off the lymphatic system, which is where the venous blood in the vena cava goes into the right atrium and into the left ventricle of the heart, to be pumped into the lungs - for gas exchange (where CO2 is released and oxygen taken in).
The gas exchange occurs throughout the day (and night) nonstop. But it is in the time between 3 to 5 am, that the lungs act as a detox organ for waste coming from the lymph.
Based on the nightly chart of spO2 drops, I can tell that my lungs' macrophages are busy getting rid of the lymphatic waste, which results in the white phlegm my throat keeps expelling when I lie down.
As long as the white phlegm is being produced daily, I expect the lymphatic system and my blood vessels to slowly be cleared of the back up of waste (from dead rbc's).
When all the dead rbc's are cleared, then I should expect my production of white phlegm to cease. I also expect the visible swelling in my lymph node to subside, and for my ESR (a measure of resistance to blood flow) to go much lower to values that are within range, or even zero-).
What happens when all my phlegm, spO2 drops, and my swollen lymph node eventually disappears as my ESR plummets?
I hope to see my blood pressure come further down as less phagocytic activity by macrophages would result in less respiratory burst activity. With less respiratory burst activity, less ROS is produced. And with less spillover ROS in my system, there is less tissue destroying oxidation activity occurring at peripheral tissues, and this would require less use of albumin as the main antioxidant to counter the tissue-destroying oxidative stress occurring. This would lead to an increase in albumin in my blood, which would attract more salt (sodium chloride) to agglomeration with the albumin. This agglomeration ensures salt to be retained by blood, and since salt attracts water, more water would result in more plasma volume, which would be tantamount to an increase in blood volume.
The increased blood volume would result in lower blood pressure, as more blood volume means less pressure is needed to compensate for low blood volume.
But, but...
If my blood pressure is still not low enough, and I can still see this accompanied by spO2 drops in my nightly SpO2 chart, I would suspect that lead toxins are still in my system, and after verification, I can work on chelating lead.
And I have Emeramide, developed by Haley Boyle, to chelate lead out of my system.
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Thank you for this @yerrag . I always know that lungs are a detoxing organ. I asked why my breath smell garlicky when I eat garlic and I knew that the toxins in the garlic are being processed out by lungs. When solid matter gets into the lung also macrophages attack and break it down and they are processed through lymphatic system as you mention. I really look forward for you to continue this conversation as I too have a lot of grey phlegm that had almost all my life and when I have an infection they turn greenish yellow.
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I'm glad you can see some value here.
I hope I can validate what I hypothesize.
BTW, I think what the wastes of lung detox just comes out as phlegm or mucus, and don't have to work it's way back to the lymphatic system.
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@xpat Forgot to mention that when I take NAC (n- acetylcysteine) my lungs feel better and more phlegm is excreted out and I am a smoker.
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@xpat NAC helps as it thins the mucus and makes it less sticky and much more easily expelled or coughed out. As NAC increases the sulfhydryl bonds that make up GSH (or reduced glutathione), and when the GSH/GSSG ratio increases, the mucus becomes thinner and there is less resistance to the mucus being expelled or expectorated.
