THE MESENTERY:
/The Gut’s Hidden Anchor… and the Weight-Loss link nobody is talking about, until now!
The Mesentery
There are parts of the body everyone knows about.
Your heart.
Your liver.
Your stomach.
Even your gallbladder gets more attention than it deserves.
Then there’s the mesentery.
A structure so important it was recently reclassified as an organ, yet most people have never heard its name.
But here’s the real shocker.
If the mesentery is inflamed, stagnant, tight or overloaded
…it can make weight around your belly refuse to budge, no matter how perfectly you eat.
Let me tell you a little story that happens more often than you’d think.
A Little Story (based on about 300 real-life conversations)
A woman comes to me saying something like:
“I’m a strict carnivore.
I fast.
I sleep well.
I’ve cut out everything except air.
STILL my stomach looks six months pregnant.”
She’s convinced something is wrong.
She’s tried every detox under the sun.
She hunts out every practitioner who gives her hope and a diagnosis that feels right. She follows a protocol with loads of supplements and lots of tests. Still nothing is working!
She has even taken screenshots of her bowel movements.
She’s been gaslit by every specialist who shrugs and says, “Try eating less, exercise more.”
But she isn’t “failing”.
Her mesentery is overloaded.
Once she supports this one overlooked structure
The bloating calms
The weight softens
The stress drops
Then her gut finally releases like it’s been waiting for permission.
Let’s break it down so you can understand why.
What the Mesentery Actually Is
The mesentery is the fan-shaped sheet of fascia that:
• holds your intestines in place
• feeds them with blood
• drains them with lymph
• connects them to your nervous system
• keeps everything anchored and stable
• hosts immune cells
• absorbs fats
• regulates inflammation
• communicates with your brain
It is, quite literally, the bridge between your gut, immune system, lymphatic system and metabolism.
If the gut is the fire
The mesentery is the hearth.
If the gut is the garden
The mesentery is the soil.
How the Mesentery and Lymph System Work Together
Running through the mesentery are tiny lymph vessels called lacteals.
These little warriors:
• absorb fats
• transport waste
• carry immune messages
• help regulate inflammation
So even though the mesentery isn’t officially part of the lymphatic system
It houses some of its most important functions.
Which means if the mesentery becomes congested, the lymph becomes sluggish.
And if lymph becomes sluggish… weight gets stuck.
The intestines feed into the mesentery.
The mesentery contains lymph, blood, and nervous system wiring.
The lymph then carries fats, waste, and immune messages out of the gut.
If any of these slow down, weight stalls.
How the Mesentery Gets Out of Balance
Now here’s where it gets really interesting.
The mesentery becomes irritated, inflamed or overloaded when:
Stress is running the show
Chronic stress tightens fascia.
A tight mesentery = slowed lymph = slowed metabolism.
This is why women who look calm on the outside are often fighting “wired but tired” chemistry underneath.
Chemical exposure
Glyphosate
Seed oils
Food additives
Preservatives
Heavy metals
Flavour enhancers
Environmental toxins
These irritate the delicate fascia and lymph vessels inside the mesentery.
Your body then holds fat around the belly to protect the inflamed tissue.
Eating the wrong foods (even in tiny amounts)
If you’re sensitive to certain foods and the gut is trying to heal, the mesentery reacts first.
It tightens and becomes swollen… all without showing up on a scan.
This is why people on carnivore who “add in a little something” often bloat instantly.
Too much sitting, not enough moving
Movement pumps lymph.
No movement = no pumping.
No pumping = congestion.
The mesentery loves gentle movement, not HIIT.
Gut infections, parasites or old trauma
Your intestines and mesentery are so connected that if one is upset
The other protects it by tightening or inflaming.
Plus,yes,emotional trauma lives in fascia.
The mesentery feels it.
Dehydration or low minerals
Fascia needs hydration + electrolytes to slide.
A crunchy, sticky mesentery is not your friend.
High inflammation from years of poor eating
Even after you switch to low-inflammatory foods
The mesentery takes time to calm down.
This is why the belly sometimes gets bigger before it gets smaller,
The inflammation rises as the body heals.
Symptoms of a Mesentery Under Stress
You might recognise a few:
• bloating, especially lower belly
• looking “pregnant” after any meal
• burping on an empty stomach
• weight stuck around the middle
• waking 2 - 4 am
• bowel movements all over the place
• swollen lymph nodes
• water retention
• feeling wired not tired
• not hungry even after fasting days
• “nothing works for me” feeling
These are classic mesentery-lymph overload signs.
Why This Affects Weight Release
Because the body always protects what is inflamed.
If the mesentery is irritated the body stores fat around it like a safety cushion.
It won’t release that fat until the area feels safe.
So if you’re carnivore, you do regular fasting
Doing all the “right” things but your mesentery is overloaded, your body will hold on rather than let go.
This is protection, not failure.
How to Support the Mesentery (gently and effectively)
These are the practices your body loves:
Salt sole
Hydrates fascia
Feeds lymph
Calms inflammation
Supports electrical signalling.- Yes we are electrical beings
Magnesium gel
Softens tight fascia
supports lymph flow
calms the nervous system.
Gelatin + glycine
Repairs connective tissue
soothes the gut lining
reduces inflammation.
Mono fasting
Gives the mesentery a break
reduces digestive workload
allows lymph to catch up.
Nasal breathing
Lowers stress chemistry
calms fascia
improves gut–brain signalling.
Belly massage
Moves lymph
softens fascia
releases stored emotions.
Movement (walks, gentle stretching)
Pumps the lymph
reduces stagnation.
Low-inflammatory or carnivore eating
Removes the chemical burden so the mesentery can repair.
Stress reduction practices
Breathwork
Mudras
Cold exposure
Grounding
All of these calm the fascia and the mesentery responds instantly.
The Takeaway
Your mesentery is not a background character.
It is a central player in gut health, lymph flow, inflammation and metabolic signalling.
If it’s overloaded, inflamed, tight, or stagnant
Your body holds onto weight to protect it.
When it calms
Your chemistry shifts
Your fascia softens
Your lymph moves
Then the weight finally starts to release the way it was always meant to.
Your body isn’t sabotaging you.
It’s protecting a structure nobody ever told you mattered.
Now that you know
you can support it
and help others do the same.
Our Drop Weight Drops and program help with the release of stress on your system, including Your MESENTERY system, so what have you got to loose. except the bloat!
