Should I Get A Massage If I have The Flu?

A lot of people who see me ask the question: "Should I get a massage if I'm sick?" The short answer is no. It’s not appropriate to bring germs into my massage space, especially with all the Swine Flu hype. I used to work on people who had a cold or flu all the time, but very rarely does it help. Here’s why: When toxicity is released from the tissues into a blood stream full of bacteria and active virus, all the nasty stuff that gets stimulated during the massage session feeds your symptoms.

Can you receive a massage when you’re viral and still see positive results?

Yes. If you’re extremely smart about what you put into your body before the massage (or better yet, what you don’t put into your body). Most people don’t drink enough water and electrolytes in good health. When you’re sick, your body becomes even more dehydrated because viruses are running the joint, so to speak, and as a result, your level of oxygenation is further diminished. Remember, oxygenation is what pushes fresh and nutrition into the deepest crevasses in your body. In a low or non-oxygenated environment, blood circulation is sluggish and the distribution of nutrition, including water, is severely negatively effected.

So when you dump the older toxicity built up in your tissues back into the blood stream, it often times ends up just festering and making you feel worse. The amount of water you might normally drink to flush it (toxicity) out just serves to hydrate your body to levels that are a little closer to optimal. In the end, your eyes feel heavier, your energy level can seem even more fatigued, and you’re emotionally frustrated because you just plopped down $60 without gaining the results you wanted.

So what’s the answer?

Well, first of all, you have to drink more fluids. Water is great, but if you are experiencing low levels of oxygenation, you’ll most likely pee most of it out. What’s more effective during colds and flu’s are drinking blood purifiers like The Master Cleanse (with as much Cayenne Pepper as you can handle), Chlorophyll, and herbs like Echinacea and Golden Seal. You want to put liquids into your body that can assist you in regenerating the levels of oxygenation that virus can’t exist in.

Above you’ll notice I put in parenthesis that it’s also important to refrain from putting certain substances into your body. Firstly, chicken soup (especially anything from a can), while it may be Jewish Penicillin, is usually way too heavy for your body to digest when you’re sick. If you’re using egg noodles, or wheat based noodles in your soup (or any processed, refined carbohydrates), you’re only feeding virus. Refined carbohydrates break down into sugar. All that sugar pulsing through your blood further diminishes your already lethargic levels of oxygenation even more. The more you decrease oxygenation, the more virus can thrive. Also, like I said, chicken soup is hard for your body to digest. If you’re putting foods into your body that is keeping it working on anything but getting well, you’re only prolonging the healing process.

If you get on my table with heavy foods in your body, like chicken soup, all that undigested matter feeds virus, decreases oxygenation, makes you feel more hungry because you aren’t satiated, and ultimately, you have less energy since your body wasted its valuable energy trying to assimilate what you put into it. The massage only serves to stir it all up.

With all the buzz about The Swine Flu, I don’t want people who come into my space for healing to have to take on further virus and get all emotionally charged about it. Selfishly, I’m here to help people, but if I get sick, I’m no assistance to anyone.

Give your body only the easy-to-use substances it needs to increase oxygenation and heal. Once you recover enough and aren’t coughing up huge chucks of phlegm, give me a ring and I’ll assist your body in accelerating the healing process!