2 Reasons to Get a Massage
According to The Week, a new study shows a good massage boosts your immune system and your sex life. One hour after receiving a 45-minute deep tissue Swedish massage, study volunteers had lower levels of the hormones cortisol, which causes stress, and arginine vasopressin, which can elevate cortisol. They also showed a rise in white blood cells, which aid in the immune response. Massage also produces an increase in the "love hormone" oxytocin, which makes you feel pleasantly "high." The results are "very, very intriguing and very, very exciting," says Cedars-Sinai psychiatrist Mark Hyman Rapaport, "and I'm a skeptic."
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