FFP 536 | How Effective Are Fertility Awareness-Based Methods? | FAMM Research Series
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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How effective are fertility awareness-based methods? What does the research say? Find out in today’s episode!
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| 0:00.0 | I have some exciting news to share. The audiobook version of real food for fertility is finally here. |
| 0:07.5 | And did you know that you can listen to Real Food for Fertility for free with your 30-day trial of |
| 0:13.0 | Audible? Head over to fertility friday.com slash real food for details. That's fertility friday.com slash real food. This is the fertility |
| 0:23.2 | Friday podcast, episode number 536. Today I'm sharing a brand new research series episode, a brand new FAM research series episode. |
| 0:42.1 | And in today's episode, we are going to talk about efficacy. |
| 0:48.3 | Efficacy of fertility awareness-based methods. |
| 0:52.7 | And I'm going to talk about an interesting study. And the study doesn't |
| 0:58.7 | necessarily paint a favorable view of fertility awareness-based methods. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:05.0 | why that is. But we're going to talk about the data, because even if they're not necessarily |
| 1:10.7 | painting it in a favorable light, in many cases, the data because even if they're not necessarily painting it in a favorable |
| 1:12.1 | light, in many cases the data speaks for itself. So without further ado, let's go ahead and |
| 1:17.9 | jump right in. All right. So the title of the paper that we are going to be covering today is fertility |
| 1:29.7 | awareness-based methods for pregnancy prevention. |
| 1:33.5 | This paper came out in 2019. |
| 1:37.4 | It was published in the BMJ. |
| 1:40.2 | And essentially, it really presents as information for clinicians for how to move forward, |
| 1:47.8 | given that fertility awareness-based methods are becoming more popular. |
| 1:53.1 | More people are using them. |
| 1:54.5 | So they actually start with a stat. |
| 1:56.9 | Fertility awareness-based methods of contraception are increasingly being used for pregnancy prevention. |
| 2:03.2 | In the U.S., the portion of contraceptive users who choose such methods has grown from 1% in 2008 to |
| 2:11.1 | approximately 3% in 2014. So here we are in 2024. So it would be interesting to know what that stat is to date. But I would imagine that it has grown quite a bit. And this is relevant because such a dramatic change. I mean, that's a tripling within less than a 10-year period. And that would mean that the increasing number of women who are |
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