Why It’s Advisable To Drink Water After a Massage – Tips To Keep You Hydrated

When you drink water after a massage treatment is helps the removal of toxins which have been released during the massage treatment. Massage is excellent for increasing blood and lymph flow but it needs a little help flushing the unwanted waste from your body.

Not hydrating yourself properly increases the possibility of experiencing nausea, headaches, or flu-ish-like symptoms. Staying hydrated every day will improve your overall well-being but many of us forget when we get busy will daily life!

It’s not only advisable to drink water after a massage, but staying hydrated is important for your own health and wellbeing, it can help to reduce stress and pain and improve mental clarity.

If staying hydrated is difficult for you, here are some tips that can help:

1. Keep a bottle of water with you during the day (if it is plastic don’t leave it in a warm place or hot car, keep it cool).

2. If you don’t like drinking just water, try adding a slice of lemon or lime to your drink. Or having sparkling water with a drop of fresh fruit juice – you do get use to it!

3. Drink water when you go to a restaurant, even if your having an alcoholic drink, it will keep you hydrated

4. Drink water before, during, and after a workout.

5. When you’re feeling hungry, drink water. Your body can confuse hunger with thirst and if you really are hungry you won’t be satisfied by drinking water.

6. If you struggle to remind yourself to drink water, try embedding it into your routine i.e. drink water when you wake up, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and when you go to bed.

7. Drink water when you go to a restaurant, even if you’re having an alcoholic drink, it will keep you hydrated