Nick Dalton-Brewer

Increasing IVF Success with Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking an integrative approach informed by the author's cutting-edge research, this book provides the specialist knowledge required by acupuncturists to treat fertility issues effectively and presents a method of diagnosis and treatment which combines Assisted Reproductive Techniques with TCM therapies, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 144mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781848192188
• ISBN-10: 1848192185
• Artikelnr.: 40742991

Autorenporträt

Nick Dalton-Brewer is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner, specialising in IVF. He trained in acupuncture and Chinese medicine for six years and undertook a further two years of TCM obstetrics and gynaecology training. He is a member of the British Acupuncture Council, the Register of Chinese Herbal Medical Practitioners and the Royal Society of Medicine, and is currently engaged in research evaluating the effect of acupuncture on IVF at Kings College NHS Trust, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acupuncture: an Introduction. 2. Natural Fertility. 3. Understanding IVF
part 1. 4. Understanding IVF part 2. 5. Western Conventional Medicine:
Causes, Diagnoses and Tests. 6. Lifestyle part 1: The stress epidemic and
stress hormones. 7. Lifestyle part 2: excitement, excitement hormones and
reactive species. 8. Take back control part 1. 9. Take back control part 2:
Fertility antioxidants, endocrine disrupting compounds, epigenetics. 10.
Evidence: placebo, evidence, narrative. 11. Acupuncture in ART. 12. A
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