10/28/2025
Massage improves sleep by reducing stress hormones like cortisol, increasing feel-good hormones such as serotonin, and boosting melatonin, the primary sleep hormone. This combination promotes relaxation, eases muscle tension, and enhances sleep quality by increasing deep, restorative sleep (delta waves) and helping regulate the body's sleep cycle.
Massage helps to increase serotonin, which then promotes the production of melatonin, the hormone that regulates your sleep cycle. By decreasing stress and tension, massage allows the body to relax, transition more easily into deeper sleep stages, and improve overall sleep quality.
Massage helps to loweri cortisol, the stress hormone and shifts the body from a "fight-or-flight" state to a "rest-and-digest" mode, making it easier to fall asleep and achieve more restorative rest.
