"But no study has ever been published addressing the questions: Can the mind be tricked into believing the body is undergoing bariatric surgery? Can weight loss be achieved in those conditions? And if it can, how is the weight loss compared to real bariatric surgery? Those are the questions Maya Mizrahi (psychologist and hypnotherapist) and her team at Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center are planning to answer in their new study."
"Maya's multidisciplinary team includes Dr. Tamar Elram, director of Jerusalem's Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center, Prof. Haggi Mazeh, head of the surgical department and Dr. Ronit Greenbaum, senior bariatric surgeon. They are joined by Prof. Danny Ben-Zvi, head of the metabolism and diabetes research lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr. Eitan Abramowitz, psychiatrist and medical hypnosis specialist at the Hypno-Campus Institute."
Randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses have found small effects of hypnosis on weight loss. Maya Mizrahi and a multidisciplinary team at Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center will test whether hypnotic suggestion can make patients believe their bodies underwent bariatric surgery and whether that belief yields weight loss. The trial includes three groups: 19 prior bariatric patients with regained weight receiving an 'imaginary revision sleeve gastrectomy' via hypnosis, 22 patients without prior surgery receiving an 'imaginary sleeve gastrectomy' via hypnosis, and 20 patients undergoing actual sleeve gastrectomy. One-year outcomes will be published; preliminary three-month results are available.
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