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Hypnosis for Fertility ~ THE EVIDENCE BASE - Doctors and scientists from around the world are proving the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for Fertility and other reproductive challenges:
A recent Israeli study showed that the success rate of IVF treatments doubled in the test group from 14% to 28%, when the subjects underwent hypnosis during implantation.
According to an Israeli study presented to the European Society of Human
Reproduction and Embryology conference in Berlin in July of 2004, hypnosis
can effectively double the success of IVF treatments. The study was
conducted by Professor Eliahu Levitas and his team at Soroka Hospital in
Beersheva to determine if hypnosis could improve the success of the embryo
transfers stage of IVF. The study of 185 woman found that 28% of the women
who were hypnotized for the IVF treatment became pregnant, compared to 14%
of the women in the control group. Professor Levitas studied the effects
of hypnosis for the IVF treatment and embryo transfer only, because prior
studies demonstrated that the stress of the procedure created small
contractions of the uterus that prevented the successful implantation of
the fertilized egg. The professor indicated that tranquilizers had been
used in prior studies, but nothing worked as well as hypnosis. "Performing
embryo transfer under hypnosis may significantly contribute to an
increased clinical pregnancy rate", Professor Levitas told the conference
in Berlin. He also hopes that this study will spark continued
investigation into the use of hypnosis as an adjunct to fertility
treatments. "The bottom line is I think it's a good thing, it will work.
Patients should be given the option if facilities are available".
Dr. Alice Domar emphasizes "mind/body" techniques that include
self-hypnotic suggestions to reduce stresses that interfere with
conception and healthy pregnancy. Infertile
women utilizing mind/body techniques such as hypnosis have a 42 - 55%
conception rate as compared to 20% with in vitro fertilization (IVF). The
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 1999 and The Journal
of Fertility and Sterility 2000. (Studies conducted by Alice Domar, PhD,
director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Behavioural Medicine Program for
Infertility in Boston). Dr.
Alice Domar is the author of Conquering Infertility, and other books on
the topic. The positive impact of mind/body interventions
In recent studies the Journal of the American Medical Women?s (1999) &
Journal Fertility and Sterility (2000) conducted at Harvard Medical
School, 185 women who had been trying to conceive for one to two years
were randomized into either a ten week mind/body group, a ten week support
group, or a routine care control group. The birth rates during the one
year follow-up period were as follows: mind body 55%, support group 54%,
and controls 20%. In addition, the mind/body patients reported
significantly greater psychological improvements than the support or
control patients. In four other published studies on several hundred women
with average infertility duration of 3.5 years, 42 percent conceived
within six months of completing the program and there were significant
decreases in all measured psychological symptoms including depression,
anxiety, and anger. Hypnotic suggestions can enable genes for conception
Dr. Ernest L. Rossi specializes in psychobiology, or the relationship
between the mind and physical body states. He has done extensive research
to suggest that human genes must be in a state of physical readiness for
conception to take place, and that hypnotic-type suggestions can activate
specific genes, including the IL-1, c-fos, and the CYP17 in a specific
order. Hypnotic suggestions can influence male fertility
At the Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon Portugal, a team of
researchers led by Katharina Hirschenhauser has concluded that men who
actively want to be fathers automatically adjust their testosterone levels
at exactly the right time (the middle of their partners' menstrual
cycles). Perhaps there is no better hypnotic suggestion for a male partner
than the idea that he wants to become a father. Hypnosis and natural conception
Hypnosis based on imagery and a relaxation strategy was successful in
facilitating pregnancy. The treatment was considered to have resulted in
beneficial modification of attitude, optimism, and mind-body interaction. The
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. (Volume 38, Issue 1, 1995, 22-26): Hypnosis
in the Treatment of Functional Infertility. IVF patients should be offered hypnosis
As mind/body programs are effective for reducing negative emotions that
may impair IVF success, patients should be offered such a program in
conjunction with IVF. Fertility
and Sterility Journal.1998, vol. 69. Hypnosis beneficial to IVF procedures
Hypnosis as an adjunct to IVF procedures could be beneficial to those who
are unable to conceive naturally. Australian
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2003,
121-127): Recipe for a Miracle: Determination, Optimism, Medical
Technology, and Hypnosis in IVF From Depression to Viable Pregnancy
Women with depression, when treated showed a 60% viable pregnancy rate
within six months, contrasting with 24% when depression went untreated: |
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