Summary
With his unique technique, acupuncturist Gerad Kite can help fertility-challenged women to conceive - and he has more than 1,000 success stories to prove it. We meet nine of his patients whose baby dreams have finally come true.
in the past 15 years acupuncturist and trained psychotherapist Gerad Kite has helped more than 1,000 women with unexplained infertility to conceive. He didn't set out to specialise in infertility, but when a patient in her early 40s came for hay-fever relief in 1992, the treatment yielded surprising results. 'She didn't mention she had been trying for a baby for years,' says Gerad, 48, who runs London's Kite Clinic. 'Three sessions later she was pregnant. She referred two friends for other ailments who fell pregnant too. It was clear that bringing women back into balance with their bodies through acupuncture was doing something to their fertility.'See the full content of this document
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The Daddy of All Fertility Experts
Gerad practises Classical Five Element Acupuncture, an Ancient Chinese technique that works on the theory that when the body is in balance everything works as it should, including conception. 'We all have little things wrong with us, so I look at pointers such as disrupted sleep, irregular bowel movements and mood and then help people's bodies get healthy again,' explains Gerad. 'I look at their face colour, the sound in their voice, a predominant smell and an emotion that has got out of kilter. My experience as a psychotherapist helps me in this respect.'
When Gerad's success stories hit the press in 2005 and 2006, women all over the world began to seek him out. 'I was so overwhelmed by the demand that I trained up a team to work with me,' says Gerad. His London Institute of Five-Element Acupuncture (LIFEA) now offers a postgraduate course that trains practitioners in infertility. The clinic t...See the full content of this document
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