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Title: Regimens: Massage Benefits Are More Than Skin Deep
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Published: Sep 22, 2010
Author: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/health
Post Date: 2010-09-22 23:13:20 by tom007
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Regimens: Massage Benefits Are More Than Skin Deep By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: September 20, 2010 * Recommend * Twitter * Sign In to E-Mail * Print * Reprints * ShareClose o Linkedin o Digg o Mixx o MySpace o Yahoo! Buzz o Permalink o Does a good massage do more than just relax your muscles? To find out, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recruited 53 healthy adults and randomly assigned 29 of them to a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session of light massage. Related * More Vital Signs Columns All of the subjects were fitted with intravenous catheters so blood samples could be taken immediately before the massage and up to an hour afterward. To their surprise, the researchers, sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, found that a single session of massage caused biological changes. Volunteers who received 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. Volunteers who had the light massage experienced greater increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment, than the Swedish massage group, and bigger decreases in adrenal corticotropin hormone, which stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol. The study was published online in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. The lead author, Dr. Mark Hyman Rapaport, chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai, said the findings were “very, very intriguing and very, very exciting — and I’m a skeptic.” A version of this article appeared in print on September 21, 2010, on page D6 of the New York edition. * Sign In to E-Mail
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
I prefer massages by 12-year-old blonde girls. Two, whenever possible. Just like rabbi in the Woody Allen movie.
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It would take 12 of you to take me. Eleven I can handle. Twelve, a little too much.
“Let’s not forget that the bankers are the next-door neighbours of the politicians. Most people can see the picture: the bankers grease the politicians’ palms, the politicians bail out the bankers with public funds, the bankers pay themselves fat bonuses and loan the money back to the public with interest. It’s essentially a crime spree that benefits a social elite at the expense of many millions of victims.”
#2. To: Turtle (#1)
I prefer massages by 12-year-old blonde girls. Two, whenever possible.
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
I believe your lawyer would advise you to edit the age to nineteen.
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
Why dont we just "edit" Turtle????
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