Comments on Hypnotherapy research
The point I'm making is that increased activity in the HPA-axis (as well as the frontal lobes) is observed with subjects under hypnosis along with a corresponding increase in HgH. Is that necessarily a good thing? How do we know the body doesn't just flush out the increased levels of growth hormone? Well, I think I am on safe ground to hypothesise that it results in some health benefits, though I recognise more studies need to be undertaken:
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I think this is great research. We just now need toplot the relationship between increased HGH andactivity in the HPA-axis with different hypnosisprotocols and disease conditions and correlate thesefindings with objective clinical outcomes. Part ofthis understanding will tell us more about how HGH andHPA-axis activity impacts different health and diseaseconditions. Along the line, we'd probably also liketo find out if and how other non-hypnosisinterventions influence HGH and HPA-axis activity fordifferent health conditions.
That there are abstracts and references listed on aPubmed database does not equate or serve to createscientific legitimacy. Tons of stuff there boils downto "junk" studies and reviews that attempt to do justthat. Often, it's hard to tell, especially fornon-experts in research and for those not acquaintedwith the particular field of study (like myself.)
In a look at Pubmed published meta-analysis' forhypnotherapy (not that meta-analysis' are anymoretelling than assembled individual studies -they tendto compound their faults), I found four (in English)that addressed hypnosis in particular and that werepublished in non CAM-type journals. Two suggestedthat hypnosis may have some medical/clinical benefit. Ironically, they support the diagnoses Medicare usesto allow coverage of hypnotherapy.
Is there a stigma associated with hypnotherapy? Maybethere's more than the illusive predictable objectiveoutcomes and the lack of common techniques andstandardized protocols for therapy. Maybe hypnosis isstill seen as merely parlor entertainment, orassociated with the occult. Even more, there may be afear of hypnotherapy being advocated as a perpetualintervention for about any condition or, worse,non-condition. Perhaps in overcoming any stigma,hypnotherapy approaches mainstream medicine.
-dras
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I think this is great research. We just now need toplot the relationship between increased HGH andactivity in the HPA-axis with different hypnosisprotocols and disease conditions and correlate thesefindings with objective clinical outcomes. Part ofthis understanding will tell us more about how HGH andHPA-axis activity impacts different health and diseaseconditions. Along the line, we'd probably also liketo find out if and how other non-hypnosisinterventions influence HGH and HPA-axis activity fordifferent health conditions.
That there are abstracts and references listed on aPubmed database does not equate or serve to createscientific legitimacy. Tons of stuff there boils downto "junk" studies and reviews that attempt to do justthat. Often, it's hard to tell, especially fornon-experts in research and for those not acquaintedwith the particular field of study (like myself.)
In a look at Pubmed published meta-analysis' forhypnotherapy (not that meta-analysis' are anymoretelling than assembled individual studies -they tendto compound their faults), I found four (in English)that addressed hypnosis in particular and that werepublished in non CAM-type journals. Two suggestedthat hypnosis may have some medical/clinical benefit. Ironically, they support the diagnoses Medicare usesto allow coverage of hypnotherapy.
Is there a stigma associated with hypnotherapy? Maybethere's more than the illusive predictable objectiveoutcomes and the lack of common techniques andstandardized protocols for therapy. Maybe hypnosis isstill seen as merely parlor entertainment, orassociated with the occult. Even more, there may be afear of hypnotherapy being advocated as a perpetualintervention for about any condition or, worse,non-condition. Perhaps in overcoming any stigma,hypnotherapy approaches mainstream medicine.
-dras
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