They have quite literally started using acupuncture for weight loss.  Sometimes they stick a small safety pin in your ear in certain areas that can get infected and you have to watch therefore quite closely.  But it can also be in other areas and only in clinical settings.  They claim that by targeting certain pressure points that have to do mostly with appetite, they can help you to change your lifestyle and lose weight over time. 

 It’s starting to seem like everything promotes weight loss.  What’s next, greasy foods?  But they have conducted more than 30 studies on acupuncture actually in relation to weight loss.  They found that body weight was reduce perhaps due to a certain mindset that was achieved because they thought it would succeed both in sham treatments and in legitimate treatments. 

So if the sham treatments are technically working in those studies, does that really mean anything at all?  Or maybe they just didn’t study it for a long enough period of time or check up on long term results.  They say it may trigger higher levels of serotonin and dopamine which could suppress appetite.  But there are no sure  bets or otherwise on this particular idea.