The AMTA provides various tips to get the most out of a massage. Interestingly, it recommends drinking extra water after a massage session. This tip is the same with any massage therapist you go to. They will always recommend that you drink a lot of water after a massage. This article will explore the reason for this recommendation. Is there a scientific basis for it, or just a myth that has been around, and so everybody recommends it? Let’s take a look.
One of the main benefits of getting a massage, especially deep tissue massage, is to detoxify the body. So, how exactly does the “detoxification” happen? Toxins are chemical substances that need to be physically thrown out of the system. During massaging, it is believed that toxins are pushed out of the cells, and into the blood stream. As you know, kidneys are the organs in our body that filter out toxins from the blood stream and throw them out of the body in the form of urine. Drinking lot of water helps in diluting the concentration of toxins in the blood stream, and eases the pressure on the kidneys to handle high concentrations of toxins.
However, according to massage therapist Tracy Walton, the detox benefit of massage therapy does not find firm research support. There is a need for systematic research to firmly establish the fact that massaging indeed causes the release of toxins from cells of the body.
That said, drinking water is essential to good health, and water is often associated with its ability to dilute the toxins present in the blood stream – whether or not due to massaging. Water also improves the capacity of the body to transport oxygen and other nutrients to all its cells. Thus, even though there might not be sufficient research evidence to prove that drinking water after massaging is necessary, just go with the fact that drinking lot of water is good for your health.
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