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Acupuncture Center of La Jolla Shares Ancient Fertility Secrets During National Infertility Awareness Week

Donna Keefe, L.Ac., Clinical Director of the Acupuncture Center of La Jolla, will be speaking on the topic of "Enhancing Fertility Naturally" during National Infertility Awareness Week, September 21st through September 29th, 2002. She has been utilizing the Ancient Wisdom of Chinese Medicine to enhance the Fertility process naturally in her La Jolla office since 1989. As a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, she also keeps herself on the cutting edge of Western Medical approaches and is open to the many possibilities and successes leading to fertility.

In the April 2002 edition of the medical journal Fertility and Sterility, a study was published that found that acupuncture increases the chance of pregnancy for women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF). This was no surprise to Donna, having worked with both women and men prior to and after natural ovulation (as well as in combination with IVF), for years and seeing many miracles occur.

Donna Keefe, L.Ac., began her studies of Chinese Medicine in 1985 while searching for her own personal solution to Endometriosis which is one of the leading causes of Infertility. While attending the University of Arizona as a Pre-Med student, Donna found herself struggling with the severe pain and unpredictability of the day to day symptoms of severe endometriosis complicated by ovarian cysts. A hysterectomy was recommended at the young age of 19 in order to relieve her pain. This was not acceptable since having a family, as well as a career in medicine, was extremely important to her. She could not find answers within her own field of allopathic medicine at the time, so she began to search. She was exposed to Acupuncture and in desperation, gave it a try.

Her immediate response to the pain relief and hormonal regulation provided by the Acupuncture impressed her enough to take a hiatus from her Western Medical studies and immerse herself in the field of Chinese Medicine. After becoming Board Certified and Licensed in California in 1989, she spent two months in China working in a hospital and studying the roots of Chinese Medicine. Her hospital experience gave her a true vision of how Acupuncture and Eastern medical traditions can be used effectively and side by side with Western medical thoughts and procedures.

Now at the age of 39 she is a mother of a seven-year old who was planned and conceived naturally. She feels so blessed with the course that her life has taken. She now dedicates her professional life, as an Acupuncturist and Teacher of Chinese Medicine, to helping others attract miracles in their lives too.

Her office is conveniently located in the La Jolla Village Professional Center at 8950 Villa La Jolla Dr., Suite B129, in the La Jolla Village / UCSD area. Please contact the Acupuncture Center of La Jolla at (858) 450-0620 to RSVP if you plan to attend an evening that could truly change your life!