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 no patent
