{"id":151,"date":"2026-03-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivlylife.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/self-administered-hypnosis-may-ward-off-hot-flashes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:00:00","slug":"self-administered-hypnosis-may-ward-off-hot-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/self-administered-hypnosis-may-ward-off-hot-flashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-administered hypnosis may ward off hot flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-repository-content prose max-w-md-lg mx-auto flow-root has-image-links\">\n<p>\n          \n        <\/p>\n<p>Menopausal women often try a variety of measures to keep hot flashes at bay. Self-administered hypnosis can be one of those tools, effectively reducing hot flash frequency and intensity, according to a study published in the November 2025 issue of <em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers divided 250 postmenopausal women (average age 56) &#8211; all of whom reported having at least four hot flashes a day &#8211; into two equal groups. Every day for six weeks, the first group listened to a 20-minute hypnosis recording that included prompts to relax and imagine feeling cool. Over the same duration, the second group listened daily to 20-minute white noise recordings labeled as hypnosis. All participants tracked the frequency and severity of their hot flashes.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the hypnosis group showed a 53% drop in a measure that combined hot flash frequency and severity, while the white noise group experienced a 41% reduction. In addition, far more women using hypnosis (90% vs. 64%) said they felt they benefited from the treatment. With 80% of women reporting hot flashes during the menopause transition and beyond, self-administered hypnosis appears to be a safe and accessible nondrug option, the study authors said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          <strong><br \/>\n            <small>Image: \u00a9 miodrag ignjatovic\/Getty Images<\/small><br \/>\n          <\/strong>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menopausal women often try a variety of measures to keep hot flashes at bay. Self-administered hypnosis can be one of those tools, effectively reducing hot flash frequency and intensity, according to a study published in the November 2025 issue of JAMA Network Open. Researchers divided 250 postmenopausal women (average age 56) &#8211; all of whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivlylife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}