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Daily Mail, Monday August 8th - HRT for your Hair' by Victoria Woodall

Love the Muffin Top

"That spare tyre that creeps up in our 40's is there for a reason and shouldn't be dieted away. 'Crash diets can contribute significantly to sudden hair loss' says Harley Street Chinese medicine and hormone specialist Jani White (acuhouse.co.uk).

'All through the perimenopausal phase, the body carefully stores extra oestrogen in the fat [adipose tissues] around the hips. By dieting to reduce this fat we drain the oestrogens our body is storing to help us have a healthy menopause.'

A crash diet can show up 6 to 12 weeks later as excessive hair fall due to lack of nutrients, while a drop in oestrogen shortens the hair growth cycle, so it sheds before it reaches the lengths it used to.

Jani advises a wholefood diet rich in quality proteins and fats, antioxidants (eg fruit and veg) plus phytoestrogens (eg flax seeds) which aid oestrogen production, as the best way to keep the hair flourishing.

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Tatler Magazine August 2014  pg 126/127
An excerpt from the article 'Pits of Despair'
By Francesca White, Beauty Editor


Hot Flushes and Night Sweats

Acupuncture with Jani White

There is another glaringly obvious contributor to sweating. Hormones.
And there is no hard and fast rule for this one - it might be menopausal, it might be brought on by pregnancy. It could even be a sign that something is not firing quite right down there.

But at the heart of all the hormonal stuff lies oestrogen - which rises and falls as it sees fit, shifting of its own accord, causing body temperature to rise and rise, and rise - like a broken radiator - and then crash without warning.

And the person to sort it all out - the one who will play detective, who will diagnose as she tinkers away, who will keep a keen ear sharply attuned to changes and fluctuations and knock your wonky temperature valves on the head as she goes - is Jani White.

This woman is simply astonishing. Wildly qualified and deeply passionate about Chinese medicine, she will use acupuncture to help rebalance things, to quell excesses in your system (in this case heat) and bolster deficiencies (oestrogen).

Lie on the bed beneath the huge skylight in her room as she (quickly, painlessly) inserts the slenderest of needles into points across your body - points relating to water and fire, to rivers and streams. She'll listen to your pulses (you have more than one), she'll check your tongue and she'll work on getting your fluids flowing properly around your body.

And she'll educate you as she goes - so that, course complete, you'll know what it means when your back breaks out in a sweat on a cold day; when you wake up in the middle of the night with your nightshirt sodden and stuck to your skin. You'll know when you need a top up, when to take things a little slower, and when to watch what you are eating.

It's not a quick fix, but it will help you manage things. Exponentially.