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This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 597.

Thank you. Friday podcast, episode number 597. In today's episode, I'm tackling a really interesting and important question. So the topic of today's episode is, our women ditching birth control

for fertility awareness. And so in this

brand new episode of our FAMM research series, we are diving into a study that was conducted

in the UK. And the title of the study is self-reported contraceptive method use at conception

among patients presenting for abortion in England,

a cross-sectional analysis comparing 2018 and 2023.

So this study is really interesting.

We're going to dive into the different points of it.

I'm really excited to dive into it.

I have a really interesting perspective on it, and I think so do the researchers, but unsurprisingly, they don't necessarily match my opinion to their opinion.

So let's go ahead and dive in to the data.

So as I've been covering on the podcast pretty consistently, pretty extensively, there does

seem to be this theme coming out in a lot of different research studies highlighting this huge

problem that's going on in the reproductive space. And the huge problem, according to the researchers, is that more and more women are turning

away from hormonal contraceptive methods in favor of fertility awareness-based methods.

And of course, they are often presenting this as due to social media.

So I'll give you a quote from the study that they have kind of in their

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