S9 E5: The lowdown on hormonal contraception

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on The Food Medic podcast we are joined by Alice Pelton and Dr Fran, from The Lowdown - the UK's leading contraception review and subscriptions platform.This episode covers: The story behind The Lowdown What are your options? Different forms of contraception Pill-bashing and fear mongering online Does hormonal contraception affect fertility? How long is too long to be on the pill? Advice for those considering stopping or changing their form of contraception Natural family planning and fertility awareness methods A new form of male contraception? If you loved it you know what to do - leave us a review, a rating (hopefully 5 stars) and share it with someone you know will love it too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Hazel. Today we're going to talk about contraception, a conversation which I personally feel we don't talk about enough. For this episode, I'm joined by two guests from The Lowdown, the UK's leading contraception, review and subscriptions platform.
0:23.9	Alice Pelton is the founder of Lowdown and set it up after struggling for years to find a
0:29.9	contraceptive method that didn't negatively impact her mood. They've just closed their
0:35.1	two million seed round and have big plans to use their unique
0:39.3	community first approach to put the next billion women in control of their healthcare decisions.
0:45.9	And alongside Alice, we have Dr. Fran, one of the lowdown's medical directors and the first
0:51.6	doctor to join the lowdown team in 2020.
0:55.5	When she's not offering exceptional contraception consultations to the lowdown community,
1:00.5	Fran works as a GP in Sheffield, where she's also a clinical lead for her primary care network
1:05.7	and trains allied health professionals, especially in all things women's health.
1:10.6	Her favourite topic is
1:11.9	the vulva. This episode is not about scaremongering or telling you to flush your pills down
1:17.2	the toilet, but to help you make informed decisions about the right contraception for you.
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