Reasons To Try Natural Birth Control
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As a holistic sex and relationship coach, I'm always on the lookout for ideas and concepts to apply to human sexuality that are natural and empowering. Birth control is one big area where many people, even if they have an organic approach to many other areas of their lives, default to pharmaceuticals.
1. It’s as effective as The Pill. Or more.
Various studies over the years have placed the Billing Method’s effectiveness at 97.5% to 100%. The most comprehensive study to date, done over a year period in China and looking at 1000 women, found the method-related (i.e. when used properly) incidences of pregnancy with The Billings Method at zero. Use-related (i.e. someone made an error when using) pregnancies were at 0.5%.
To compare this to The Pill, the method-related pregnancy rate is 0.3%. The use-related rate is 8% (for example, someone forgot to take a pill). Either way, the Billings Method still comes out on top.
2. You’ll keep your breasts.
There's growing evidence that hormonal birth control massively increases the risk of breast cancer. The Pill/hormonal birth control was deemed a Group One carcinogen by the WHO in 2005, which places it in the same class as radium and asbestos.
One study by the Mayo Clinic showed that women have a 44% increased risk of getting breast cancer if taking oral contraceptives four years or more before having children. Swedish oncologist Hakan Olsson found that before age 20, women increase their breast cancer risk by 1000%.
