Reddit mentions of Job's Body: Ahandbook for body workshop

I've always heard it's because it is just like a workout to your body. You drink after a work out, so drink after a massage. The toxins line is a total and complete myth, along with several other ideas that hang around the massage world.

article # 1 here in massage today

Article #2 here from Save Yourself. awesome link! He has some incredible write ups on massage and I highly recommend reading all of them if you can. Yes some of them are highly skeptical but we can all do with a little reality check now and again. It's healthy. ;)

Article #3 (video) from Laura Allen. She is a nationally certified massage therapist and body worker, and an approved provider of continuing education under the NCBTMB.

I've recently read some chapters in Job's Body that encourage me to come to the conclusion that massage works a lot like Yoga does in stretching the muscles and keeping the skin and connective tissues healthy. I've yet to start my program but am a bit of a reader so...
Massage is a wonderful, holistic and therapeutic practice on it's own. I'm not sure we need to go around adding mystical properties to it. ya know?