to keep fluid moving.
By late afternoon, your socks leave deep grooves. Your feet feel stuffed into their own skin. You sit down and the pressure in your lower legs doesn’t fade — it lingers like a trapped tide.
And while everyone wants to blame salt, age, or “just standing too long,” the bigger story is uglier. The body’s tiny fluid-control machinery gets jammed, and once that happens, water starts leaking into the wrong places like a pipe with a split seam.
The $100-billion wellness machine barely whispers about that. There’s
