DID YOU KNOW that a single session of massage can cause biological changes and reduce stress hormones?

Volunteers who received Swedish deep tissue massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormones such as cortisol in the blood. They also had increases in the number of lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system.

Others who received light massage experienced greater increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment and big decreases in adrenal corticotropin hormone, which stimulates the production of cortisol.

The study was published online in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Author, Dr. Mark Hyman Rapaport, chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai.

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The volunteers of this study underwent only a single session of massage causing beneficial biological changes. Imagine the benefits you'd get by receiving massage on a regular basis - the benefits are more than skin deep.