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MASSAGE:
New research shows biological changes in body from a good rub-a-dub-dub
September 22, 2010
(NATIONAL) -- Think getting a massage is just a temporary feel good spa outing kind of thing?
Au contraire' say the results of a new study published online in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
Researchers took 53 adults and gave 29 of them a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session of light massage.
To the amazement of some of the researchers they found through examining the test subjects blood workups after the massage that a single session of massage caused positive biological changes in he body.
Volunteers who got the Swedish massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormone cortisol in blood and saliva, and in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that can lead to increases in cortisol. They also had increases in the number of lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system.
Read more on the study HERE
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