Auricular magnet pressure and obesity: losing weight naturally

Obesity and being overweight are problems that concern about 40% of the population, , but despite the importance of the problem the available information about the various forms of treatment are not particularly encouraging, especially if they are analysed in the long term.

While classical treatments for obesity and excess weight, based on restrictive diets and calorie reduction and often associated with the use of appetite-reduction drugs are quite effective in causing weight loss in the short term they are certainly not without their side-effects. Dieting is frequently associated with a number of negative factors: intense hunger, craving for a particular (often sweet) food, anxiety, irritability, negative mood changes (the psychological effects of diet restriction) are all phenomena that make keeping to the diet difficult if not impossible. The patient is incapable of losing weight and actually tends to put weight on, leading to a psychological refusal to continue the therapy, so that the patient leaves the dietary consultant (the Eclipse phenomenon).

During this uncontrolled period weight inevitably increases, often exceeding the initial measurement. The Weight Cycling Syndrome or so-called Yo-yo effect comes into force. These weight fluctuations seem to create a greater risk of mortality and heart disease than that for obese individuals with stable body weights.

Magnetic pressure therapy has taken on a well-defined role, which recent clinical and laboratory research have studied even down to the most detailed neurophysiological mechanism. The possibility of affecting dietary behaviour by stimulating precisely defined zones of the auricle is the characterising element of this treatment for excess weight and obesity.

Dietary behaviour in man is the result of close interaction between environmental, cognitive, emotional and biological factors that constitute a dense network that is particularly difficult to analyse. The biological factors, represented by sensations of hunger and repletion, take on a highly important role in influencing short term food consumption and it is on precisely these aspects that auricular stimulation seems to have its main effects.

Recent studies have shown that auricular stimulation is able have a significant effect on appetite, meaning the desire for food and directing one's thoughts towards obtaining it: this is obtained by a premature sense of repletion during and between meals. Other effects obtained with auricular stimulation are:

a) modification to the choice of food: the patient is directed towards protein rather than carbohydrate and fat.

b) fewer episodes of craving (often for sweet food) and of binge eating.

c) positive mood change.

d) reduced anxiety and irritability.

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