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FFP 362 | How Effective Are Fertility Awareness-Based Methods Really? | Dr. Marguerite Duane

Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

Fertility Friday Radio | Fertility Awareness for Pregnancy and Hormone-free birth control

Alternative Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA is a board-certified family physician and adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. She is co-founder and executive director of FACTS, the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science. She is trained as a Creighton Model, FEMM and NeoFertility medical consultant as well as a TeenSTAR educator. She also works with Modern Mobile Medicine, a direct primary care house calls-based medical practice that serves patients of all ages in the DC area.

Dr. Duane received her medical degree with recognition in primary care from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA. She has previously served on the boards of both the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC). Dr. Duane balances her career as a teacher and Family Physician, with her role as a mother and wife.

Today's episode is sponsored by the Fertility Awareness Mastery LIVE 8 week group coaching program!  We start on May 4th! Will you be joining us? Click here to register now!

Topics discussed in today's episode:
  • Why is Dr. Duane as passionate now about FAM than when she discovered it years ago

  • Dr. Duane's thoughts on how FAM is the only birth control method with no side effects

  • The philosophy of allopathic medicine

  • How doctors are trained about FAM and what women can expect when going to their female doctor

  • The effectiveness of Fertility Awareness Methods

  • The different methods of Fertility Awareness

  • Dr. Duane's thoughts on the challenges for women concerned with the effectiveness

  • How to use the methods correctly

  • What is most commonly quoted when it comes to FAM

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You are officially invited. Yes, you. You're invited to join us in Fertility Awareness Mastery Live.

0:06.8

This is my eight-week group coaching program designed to help you gain confidence using fertility awareness.

0:12.3

Whether you're actively avoiding pregnancy or looking to optimize your cycles for conception, we have a spot for you.

0:18.4

We start the first week of May. Are you ready to jump in? Head over to

0:22.5

fertility friday.com slash fam to register today. That's fertility friday.com slash f a m. This is the

0:29.4

Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 362. Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility awareness method and all things fertility.

0:45.5

I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of the Fifth Vital Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Journal.

0:52.2

I'm a certified fertility awareness educator

0:54.5

and holistic reproductive health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience teaching women

0:59.3

to connect to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormonal

1:04.1

health, and optimizing the menstrual cycle without hormones. I'm outspoken about hormonal

1:10.1

birth control and its impact on fertility and overall

1:12.6

health because you have the right to know how your body works and how artificial hormones

1:17.2

disrupt that natural process. I host live coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility

1:22.9

and health because it's important to have healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not you

1:28.2

want to have babies. I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys. I know, I know, I'm a busy

1:34.4

girl, but I managed to fit it all in. This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control

1:40.1

of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health. And I'm so excited that you're here with us today.

1:51.9

Today I'm excited to welcome back Dr. Marguerite Dwayne to the podcast. If you've been a long-time

1:58.3

listener, you may have already heard one of the two previous occasions that I had her on the show back in episode 123 and episode 194.

2:07.9

And I'll make sure to link those two episodes to the show notes page of today's podcast episode.

2:13.3

But for those of you who don't know, Dr. Marguerite Dwayne is a board-certified family physician and a junk associate professor at Georgetown University.

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