Sleep Better with San Soma's Massage in Incline Village
Sleep can be vastly underrated when considering our health. We devote time, energy and money to eating well and exercising; however, how much time do we spend improving our sleep? Unfortunately, not enough, unless you count self-cooling pillows and remote-control mattresses.It’s reported that over 64 million Americans experience difficulty sleeping. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), "Insufficient sleep is associated with a number of chronic diseases and conditions—such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depression—which threaten our nation’s health. Notably, insufficient sleep is associated with the onset of these diseases and also poses important implications for their management and outcome.”
Improve Your Sleep with a Massage in Incline Village from San Soma
While pharmaceutical companies continue to promise a better, less addictive sleeping pill, sleeping medication fails to address the underlying causes of sleep deprivation. Massage therapy, however, addresses them head-on.Massage therapy has been proven to activate your parasympathetic nervous system. When you get a massage in Incline Village (or anywhere else for that matter), your digestive and restorative systems are activated. By doing so, your body is encouraged to repair itself leading you to a better sleep. Plus, massage relaxes chronically tight muscles, improving your blood flow and allowing muscles to relax instead of cramping, twitching or spasming.Perhaps the most important of all, however, is massage therapy’s ability to elicit serotonin production in your body. Serotonin is an extremely important neurotransmitter that is essential to our survival. It plays a critical role in mood, body temperature, behavior, appetite, and, of course, sleep. When serotonin levels increase, our body is able to produce melatonin, the hormone responsible for inducing sleep and resetting the body’s circadian rhythm. Through a variety of massage techniques, licensed massage therapists can increase the body’s serotonin levels and physiologically boost our ability to sleep … and sleep oh so well.So, instead of turning to the medicine cabinet to throw back a couple sleeping pills, consider scheduling an appointment with your massage therapist instead. Your body (and your dreams) will thank you.