Engy › Who's who in longevity › Tom De Prest
At a glance
- Flemish therapist based in Bruges who works on trauma and stress through the body; trained as a manual neurotherapist and kinesiologist.
- Wrote Hoe het lichaam onthoudt wat je zelf vergeten bent (2022, ‘How the body remembers what you have forgotten’), which reached more than 30,000 readers.
- The follow-up, Hoe het lichaam blijft onthouden wat je zelf vergeten bent, came out in May 2026 (Borgerhoff & Lamberigts).
- Central to his work is the idea that old, often unconscious experiences live on in tension, pain and stress reactions, and that recovery can also run through the body.
- Appeared on Len De Nys’s podcast (Je Levensstijl als Medicijn) in 2026 to explain why the body keeps reacting to the past.
- Relevant because chronic stress erodes long-term health; his books offer an accessible way in for anyone stuck with recurring stress-related physical complaints.
Criticism and nuance
His background also includes methods such as kinesiology that have little scientific support; his books rest mainly on clinical experience rather than his own research.