We're always looking for the latest trick to help us lose weight. We know that diet and exercise will do the trick, but is there anything easier we can do?
Well there might just be, and the results will shock you!
And we're saying that quite literally, as two women recently lost 11 pounds after participating in a study that sent electric shocks to the part of their brains linked to cravings.
According to the New York Post, Robyn Baldwin, 58, and Lena Tolly, 48, who both have obesity and binge eating disorders, each had a small implant that zapped the hypothalamus to help scramble thoughts of cravings.
Baldwin, a self-described "chunko child," said the shocks helped break her habit of swinging past Ben & Jerry's on the way to the drugstore.
"I could go into the pharmacy and not even think about ice cream," she said. "It's not like I don't think about food at all, but I'm no longer a craving person."
The implant even seemed to change the women's food preferences.
Baldwin used to crave sweet foods, but now prefers savory ones. Tolly said she would sometimes eat peanut butter from the jar, but now she doesn't crave it.
"It's not self control," she said. "I make better choices."
The study was primarily conducted to make sure the implant is safe, but its promising effects were "really impressive and exciting," said Dr. Casey Halpern, the study's senior author and an associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in a news release.
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