Medical hypnosis is attracting more and more patients and healthcare professionals for chronic pain, addiction relief, insomnia…But while it has been the subject of more than 500 pain control studies for thirty years, studies elsewhere are lacking.“, emphasizes Dr. Jean-Marc Benhaim, head of hypnosis DU Paris-VI and author. Hypnotize yourself. In Editions Flammarion.
This is especially true in the fight against overweight and obesity. “There is a lack of evidence regarding the real interest of this method. Many offers are actually false promises. Indeed, obesity being a multifactorial disease, it is illusory to say “we will cure obesity with hypnosis”.“, emphasizes professor Boris Hansel, an endocrinologist at Bichat Hospital in Paris. “We should rather ask ourselves what factors are involved in weight gain, hypnosis can work“, he continues.
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Source: Le Figaro
