[Ep 21] Is Your Lymph Slowing Fat Loss? | Doreiby Riker

Age Defiantly with Mark Young · Aug 26, 2025 · 51m · transcript

Your lymphatic system is your body’s sewage and drainage network—but it doesn’t move itself. In this episode, Mark Young sits down with Doreiby “Dori” Riker (Occupational & Lymphatic Therapist; founder of Robust Wholeness) to demystify lymph health, from post-op recovery and cellulite to autoimmune patterns, breast implant illness, and the emotional “gunk” our bodies store.

Dori shares her path from helping her mom’s post-mastectomy swelling to becoming a certified lymphedema therapist—and what most people miss about lymph’s role in fat transport, cellulite, and plateaus. We also get real…