We must rather ask ourselves on what factors are involved in weight gain, hypnosis can act“, underlines Professor Boris Hansel, endocrinologist at the Bichat hospital in Paris. 254840837/Pixel-Shot – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – A team of dieticians from the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris studied the behavior of 82 people with strong food impulsivity.
Medical hypnosis is attracting more and more patients and health professionals: in chronic pain, to free oneself from an addiction, to fight against insomnia… “But while, for thirty years, it has been the subject of more than 500 studies in the control of pain, studies are lacking elsewhere.», Underlines Doctor Jean-Marc Benhaïem, head of the DU in hypnosis at Paris-VI and author of Hypnosis yourself! at Editions Flammarion.
This is particularly the case in the management of overweight and obesity. “There is a lack of evidence on 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 by hypnosis”“, underlines Professor Boris Hansel, endocrinologist at the Bichat hospital in Paris. “We must rather ask ourselves on what factors are involved in weight gain, hypnosis can act“, he continues.
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