welcome to in good shape coming up. why spending too much time sitting is bad for your health. what blast of cold water can do for the immune system. that using hypnosis to aid healing our main topic on today's show. and welcome to world of the inception i'm here at the museum of pollutions in berlin and this is the place where your senses will be food. get ready for an exciting a show today it's all about perception. and

you can use those senses for healing like in hypnotherapy let me show. heller oh look at your hands and realize that this hand moves towards your forehead and when your hand touches your head you were fall into a deep deep relaxing sleep sleep. and now she's in a trance and you can use all those healing suggestions. today we talk with dr thomas voeckler president of the german society for dental hypnosis he uses hypnosis when his patients are experiencing exceptional anxiety or pain to the northwest opens an entire spectrum of possibilities and the field of health. hypnosis is not and this teaches people who are in a trance are in control of themselves all the time. ignoramuses is not magic it can even help as doctors treat patients with song or inciting disorder

or even assist those doing surgery. then. find yourself in a beautiful place where the sun is shining and you can close your eyes and drift far far away. in her mind christer of ascii is indeed very far away so the sixty two year old is in a trance a unique mental state. as a c.t. said i was seeing these pictures as if i were watching a movie. and then i saw a lovely holiday resort where the sun was shining. it was as if i just been transported there. research as well why do investigating what happens in our brains during trance and hypnosis hypnotherapy can be particularly helpful when psychosomatic factors trigger illness as can be the case

with irritable bowel syndrome or sleep disorders. is resist this case has brought generally we see that with functional disorders where we are strong emotions are involved for instance with gastrointestinal respiratory or skin disorders the psyche also plays a role. i don't know all that. there was also a psychological component in christer of eskies case she needed a sister removed from her jaw intense pain and loud noise made the operation especially traumatic then she needed another operation which terrified her. but the cyst had to come out so she decided to try hypnosis to get her through the second procedure. when mice going to turn into a trance state. and the. builders come to your home as agreed

and you let them do their job you were asked yes there's noise. you just leave the room where they're working you know for us. in our mind's eye christer is leaving the apartment and all the construction noise this should help her feel less anxious about the surgery and the noises that go with it. we are not synonyms and here we use this technique to redirect our focus on other things we specifically address the right brain which controls our emotions and of course also affects our body. this can even be seen. just stephen lawrence at the university hospital and studies the brain activity of people in trance states his findings show a clear change in brain wave activity. often at that level in

a normal state of the areas responsible for perception or blue under hypnosis however there's a kind of shutdown the neural network becomes dormant with no sign of brain activity in. this. vision and in stark contrast the parts of the brain that control emotion and imagination that active as if someone is really seeing feeling or experiencing something pain stimuli perceived but not experienced as such. this means stimuli of processed in the brain differently. researchers think that not only is activity altered within regions of the brain but also within the connections between the different brain regions. hypnosis can even replace general anesthesia using only pain medication and local anesthesia like hit during a deep brain stimulation procedure as

a whole is drilled in the patient's skull neurosurgeon report right here out incorporates the sounds into the hypnosis. i would evolve over the past the workers start and stop drilling with a new matic drill you can open your mouth and it isn't so bad. cardiovascular values from a normal. but the nation does feel the pain but integrates it positively into other experiences and modulator it so be experienced isn't so stressful as the christer had the same experience she was able to drop into a hypnotic state during her second jaw surgery with the help of the noisy apartment from which she could dreamily escape. i'm here with dr thomas voice he's the president of the german society for dental hypnosis thanks for having me today in hypnosis you put patients in a trance so what exactly is a trance trance is

a state of focused attention to it goes from outside to be in our. feeling of the patient how does a session to work have no suspicion if you put a patient into a trance usually the at the first appointment we have just an explanation and we talk about what the patient needs to terms with three words three word induction technique and that are three words that he associates with a very relaxing state moment action or place so three words offer a situation where i really like yeah so say the cation beach and clouds relax in the chair and. you can imagine.

goes like a ghost out of his body to a place that is absolutely secure and where you can relax and this place just maybe i don't know where if you have been the if you want to go there or if it is your vacation you can just imagine maybe you can feel some sand under your feet maybe you can see when you are the peach also the water and you can just relax and stay at this place. and open office again so the road can from twenty to one. calmly you don't have to say the words.

welcome back thank you i was a well actually it was very relaxing but i would be a little bit scared if you would be my dentist with a drill in your hand and i would sit in your chair with my mouth open because. i'm not so sure if this would be pain free does is absolutely right but this is because i did not get any suggestions for you for pain relief we just made it for relaxation and so if you want to have pain relief maybe four to six struction then we have to do it for pain relief this is the reason why i have to know why you are at the dentist ok so that we don't have to go there are not of my right so patients are very often very scared that they will lose control. in a trance but there's nothing to fear about it i have something what i can offer the patient security and ok yeah may i touch you it is your wrist.

so it is like the security and ok and it will become live but we say in medicine cataleptic so we dislike it is not your hand maybe its getting all sort of cold and when when you say stop to the treatment. you do the hands like that ok ok and if you are in a good state. like so i will stay in perfect intro all of the treatment can you always say yeah it's very exciting so why don't you just take a closer look at how he works. i can hope witsell scared of the dentist even fainted once in the chair. then why not leave the not. as a tube sucking up your saliva that's not my kind of thing. nish monday i hope to tell you. one time i don't know if the moment has arrived.

the feeling of being completely vulnerable while lying on your back the harsh light and the howling of the drill can spark panic in cases where patients suffer extreme fear of dental procedures they often avoid going to the dentist at all. reduced to dental treatment with hypnosis begins with a detailed conversation in which dr both explains exactly what he intends to do. that alone can help to allay the patient's fear. most people want to know what will happen when they're hypnotized. i'm on pause. often you can leave your eyes open or closed most patients say it's more pleasant when the eyes are closed just breathe normally in and. you'll notice how you feel a little more relaxed from breath to breath breathe in breathe out picture yourself

in the here and now is your spirit simply leave your body goes to a place where it feels comfortable and say. i'm autumn to musician for water when such a fluid. hypnosis procedure puts i could hop into a relaxed trance in which his mind is focused on pleasant images. in the movie i can in future he'll be able to have no ties himself before being treated. and this is basically any act of hypnosis the self that knows is just never has power over their subject but into a kind of backwards from twenty to one when you get to one open your eyes you are completely relaxed feel totally ok. from the hypnosis allows patients to experience a once frightening treatment in a new light that was offering a loss and i said yes to the whole thing and i'm really satisfied i've had all four

wisdom teeth pulled at once and i'm here of my own free will so cleverly. i'm still sitting here completely on my own will because they are more questions to ask. work for everyone so i often explain it. with soccer not everyone is like as good as the model. and so all of us we have the ability to do it up north us also to do self-hypnosis and to use it for whatever we want or oh no i am very interested in self-hypnosis you said self-hypnosis cannot hypnotize myself with absolutely absolutely so we also did today with you and every hypnosis as a surfeit knows what you often see also in t.v. show hypnosis showed nosers is completely different from medical

hypnosis in a medical setting we have a practitioner patient relationship and this is a very. trustful thing and so usually we only use hypnosis for this reason to help the patient we do not use hypnosis to. that patient or let the person be a monkey on a stage we never did it so i would have a patient who's scared to go to the dentist and he is too scared to even to be for some house could he use self-hypnosis for confidence absolutely you can use it you can learn it you can buy a lot of books you can buy c.d.'s but to really learn it i recommend for this person who has maybe a dental phobia and who is so scared that he can even go out of the holes when there is an appointment at the dentist i recommend for this person to go to

a specialist in hypnosis to learn it and also to practice it at home and then go to the treatment to a dentist who uses most was sold dog learned from books learned from a specialist this is my recommendation absolutely or watch this show again because of first talk we already showed you how to do it so he knows this works but not in every case so this is why we do have a new toy. every week. on an upcoming show we'll be looking at skin how skin is our largest organ and it protects us from the elements what can we do to keep it in good shape and that includes how much makeup is ok to use send your questions to in good shape but d.-w. dot com please write skin in the subject line we look forward to hearing from you. how do you write your emails to us don't tell me. that.

research from the new school of science examined the movement patterns for one million persons and they found out that sitting for an hour increases your risk for a premature death so get up. from sitting comfortably good what exactly happens from the rest knowledge in our to our volunteers in a study at the german sport university in cologne the task ahead a sit at all. they're here to help researchers gain insights into an issue that's had them stumped or rather slow for years. does uninterrupted sitting for long hours make even a healthy body sick from. our blood sugar level provides a decent indicator it reflects how well the body processes the energy we consume through food and drink first thing in the morning our test subjects take a fasting blood test. in both cases the blood sugar is normal.

well that's why. the researchers also measure their relative proportions of body fat muscle mass bone and water in the body. a device called an activity three sensor is mounted over their hips it's used to read physical activity recording even the slightest movement. today the active graph unit is measuring rest patterns for five hours they're not allowed to make any major movements never mind standing up their blood sugar levels are measured at regular intervals. they only get one proper break from their sit at home for lunch a scenario all too familiar to those with office jobs. then it's back to the office chairs and the afternoon session is over the results from these young and healthy specimens confirm the fears of the researchers sitting

around for so long so our blood sugar rocket two hundred fifty milligrams per deciliter. i was appalled by the results of the subjects didn't move except maybe to go to the toilet but there was a massive increase in their blood sugar levels because of the stress on the i'm digested food the experiment almost two weeks the situation we normally see with an increased blood sugar level like with a diabetic. that's how fast i. well we overdoing the sitting some preschool children already spend more than a quarter of their waking day sitting down. in germany teenagers spend an average of six hours a day sitting down at school or in front of the t.v. or computer. researchers linked prolonged sitting with diabetes cardiovascular

complaints and even cancer every hour spent seated wherever you are increases the risk. but the sports scientists in cologne have an idea how about a small amount of movement every day. and part of that feeling yeah over the past ten or fifteen years i've had this growing dream of finally being able to tell people how little they need to move we're still working on that minimum activity level you came into office and chef. today starts the same for two test subjects after having their ways and blood sugar measures they have breakfast but. they'll be a break every hour and you walk up five flights of steps and then back down again. you can simply walking up and down stairs save us from the danger of sitting too much.

allegedly being any movement is good even just standing up people shouldn't sit slouched over their computers a little i'm one of the boy so how was it. going to be good but was it. after each session of movement their blood sugar is measured five times in all sitting walking easing testing walking sitting it's a busy schedule. the question now is just minor activity of the workplace get the body geared up and is it enough to keep your blood sugar level low. on day one nadia an ox or receded for three quarters of the total five hours. on the activity day it was only about half the blood sugar levels reinforce the

picture on in active days it rose significantly during the first lengthy session of sitting but walking up and down the stairs and doing other exercises meant those levels were up to a third less in comparison on day too. it would seem as if i'm pretty sure we've taken a big step towards defining the minimum activity level i think are a good way of activating the body it doesn't take long and everyone has access to them if we were all to use these steps you know i would be rid of many problems the secret to minimum activity is climbing status. least in guidance that's kept from it's. so do you think now that standing straight could be the solution for all of your problems well it's not this is what a canadian study showed two thousand and seventeen people who stand a lot of high incidence of our diseases compared to the ones who sit so what's the solution exercise use the power of cold water.

will regularly dousing your face with cold water arm you against infections and stave off coughs colds and sore throats. these two are going to put the theory to the test. first they provide a saliva sample. our spit contains an antibody called immunoglobulin a or i g n e which is also present in other mucous secretions such as tears and sweat it plays a crucial role in the immune system. then they begin the therapy a daily dose of cold water splashed at least three times over their forehead and cheeks they'll stick to the regimen for a week. most viruses are inhaled if the body's antibodies fail to fight them off they make themselves at home in the mucous membranes of the

nose throat and respiratory tract the i.g.a. antibodies attach themselves to viruses before they can infect the mucosa the i.g.a. antibodies also attract faggots. it's a kind of white blood cell if there are enough of them they can destroy viruses. to test subjects also brush their tongues vigorously to increase blood circulation by the end of the week they have a twenty five percent increase in their values. very significant because especially in winter viruses and to the body through the firings and we don't have medicine against a lot of viral pathogens. so it's very important that our immune systems are robust and can fight off infections in fact softening up. the immune response in the mucous membranes is boosted by robust circulation cold water causes blood vessels to constrict they're after they dilate rapidly which stimulates blood flow the

better the blood circulation in the nose throat and mouth the more immune cells and fungus sites will form researchers that the university of vienna conducted the study and hydrotherapy in cold stimulation over a period of several months with forty test persons. as a guinness. for the results of the study showed that the immune system could be modulation with the help of hydrotherapy and cold stimulation young. the cold water regimen should be observed once a day for weeks if not months as. part of a treatment known in germany as the can cure named after the bavarian priests. who pioneered hydrotherapy techniques in the nineteenth century. using the hands to splash the face would do the job just as well.

as a rule of thumb and hydrotherapy the colder the water the shorter the kewl caso basically if you're using very cold water then apply for just one minute you can apply slightly less cold water for a bit longer and to cool water that has a temperature of sixty to seventeen degrees can be applied to a two or three minutes. when we can do a few of staying healthy with the help of cold water and effective therapy that's free of side effects. see and then let's all try to stay in shape.

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