Frequently Asked Questions

  • Weight management refers to behaviours, techniques, and physiological processes that contribute to a person's ability to attain and maintain a healthy weight. Most weight management techniques encompass long-term lifestyle strategies that promote healthy eating and daily physical activity.

    • It gives people hope about their condition. The nature of mental health conditions means sufferers often feel pessimistic about their future. ...

    • It helps people develop self-esteem. ...

    • It can help people relax. ...

    • It develops more rational thought processes.

  • Because CBT is skills-based, with techniques that can be used to tackle issues such as negative thinking. You learn skills that mean you can tackle your problems on your own. CBT techniques, once learned, can be used by in the future to solve problems. They become life-long coping tools.

  • The short answer is no.

    MYNDSET is a behavioural change program that delivers more than just weight loss. Weight loss is a consequence of preventing, treating and managing obesity.

  • MYNDSET is based on more than 20 years of research and proven clinical practice and many years of experience in software development in consumer health, healthcare, digital health, and virtual health.

    It uses Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality exposure therapy to show trigger foods and help users experience resisting temptation, in the places it’s most likely to strike like at home, in a local restaurant, in a pizzeria or in a shopping mall.

    Studies show experience is more powerful than knowledge in helping people change their behaviour. In a landmark study, people who received VR-enhanced therapy were 7 times more likely to maintain weight loss compared with non-VR controls.

  • Reality is in people’s minds. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are magic because they enhance and modify human perception. That perception becomes the new reality. Some call is Extended Reality or XR. For people with obesity and eating disorders our immersive therapies restore the mind-body connections.

    The real magic comes from how MYND is bringing together many years of research, proven clinical methods, software, design thinking, the application of advanced technologies such as VR/AR/XR and AI, gamification, interactive arts and storytelling into products, experiences and services to benefit our customers.

  • For the MYNDSET Beta Early Access Program all you need is an iPhone v10 or higher. After you receive a confirmation to access the TestFlight you will be able to download our mobile app. The Augmented Reality experiences are cloud-based, which means that the virtual foods will be easy to look at and play with.

    For future releases you’ll be able to use your favourite smart devices such as the Apple Watch, Oculus Quest 2, SONY Playstation 5 VR2, and hopefully the much-expected Apple AR/VR headset.

  • MYNDSET is for all adult people living with overweight or obesity.

    The first MVP has been developed and validated in 2022 with women with overweight and obesity from Canada and the United States.

    We have plans to release digital therapies for children, youth, men, and seniors in the upcoming months.

    MYND is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare: people of different ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, disabilities, genders, religions, cultures and sexual orientations – all can benefit from our products, services, and experiences.

  • We have tested and validated the VR feature for MYNDSET Beta with Oculus Quest 2. MYND decided to delay the release of the VR experiences until further notice.