If you’ve ever gotten a massage, chances are your massage therapist instructed you to drink a lot of water afterwards. There are reasons why.
First, massages can be dehydrating. The first thing a lot of my clients do after coming out of the treatment room is take a sip of the water I give them. Kneading and working muscles gets fluid pumping our of the soft tissue and into your circulatory system, where it heads towards your kidneys. That’s also why many clients head right to the bathroom after massage. You have to replenish all that lost water – by drinking more.
Then there’s the issue of metabolic waste, which is produced by muscles in the course of everyday function. When your muscles are tight or you’ve got a major knot, it constricts circulation in those areas, inhibiting the body’s ability to flush out this waste. And, since tight muscles are probably what prompted you to schedule the massage in the first place, chances are you’ve got some compromised circulation happening. Massage relaxes the tension, releasing the circulatory pathways and allowing nitrogenous metabolic waste to dump into the system. Drinking provides your kidneys with the water they need to effectively eliminate the newly liberated waste.
Plus, it’s just plain good for you. Drinking water lubricates the joints, delivers oxygen throughout the body, it’s good for the skin, helps maintain blood pressure and so much more…
Based on an article written by YouBeauty.com Editors