Webinar: How to choose the best birth control for you and your body
JUNE 25, 2021
There are many different types and over 244 different brands of birth control globally—so how come most of us have only been offered a handful by our doctors? Our Dr. Laura Joigneau teamed up with Dr. Jack Pearson from Natural Cycles to discuss what your birth control options are, bust the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach and give you the legitimate lowdown on how to choose the best birth control for you, your body and your goals
Key Takeaways
There are around 20 different types of birth control and 100s of birth control brands available globally but most of us are completely in the dark about how to choose the right one for us
Choosing the best birth control for you is completely personal and depends on a range of individual factors
Tuune teamed up with Natural Cycles to discuss exactly how you can make confident, clued up choices to find the best birth control for your body
Did you know that there are over 16 different types of birth control, including hormonal and non-hormonal options, and over 244 different brands of birth control available globally?
How many options have you been offered by your doctor?
When it comes to our birth control choices, many of us just don’t realize the sheer amount of options that are available, let alone how to choose one that will be best for our bodies.
We get that pill that our friend is raving about, or that one that worked wonders for our work buddy—or simply, we pick up the only option that ever seems to be on offer at our doctors.
And then (usually months or even years later) we wonder, ‘why isn’t it working for me’, ‘why am I feeling so up and down’, ‘why am I breaking out’?
Despite what we may have been led to believe, there really is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to birth control. Why? Because, we are all totally, fantastically, phenomenally unique (and we wouldn’t have it any other way).
Choosing the best birth control for you is a completely personal journey and depends on a number of different factors including your unique hormone profile, your medical history, your mental health, and (newsflash) your goals and opinions.
Okay, so now you’re asking ‘how can I find what birth control is best for me?’
Luckily, Tuune’s very own in-house Gynaecologist & hormonal health expert Dr. Laura Joigneau, plus our cofounder & CEO Shardi Naharvandi, joined forces with Dr. Jack Pearson, Medical Affairs Manager and ‘ex sperm expert’ (yep, really) from Natural Cycles in an exclusive webinar discussion to give you the complete lowdown on everything from deciphering the difference between hormonal and non-hormonal birth control options to the nitty-gritty of choosing the best birth control for you.
What birth control is right for me?
What we covered
How we got here—a quick history of hormonal birth control
What the different types of birth control option are; including the difference between hormonal and non-hormonal birth control, range and effectiveness, plus, what global access looks like for each type
Common myths about your cycle and our absolute do’s and don’t for contraceptive counseling
And (drum-roll) how to choose the best birth control for you including key questions you need to ask yourself and your doctor in order to make confident, clued-up choices
Q&A with the experts!
Ready to get started on your journey to better hormone health and getting birth control recommendations completely in tune with you and your body? Head to the Tuune waitlist (and make sure you check out Natural Cycles while you’re at it).
Written by
Annalisa Hayes (she/her)
Copywriter at Tuune, Annalisa has worked for various pioneering health-tech startups and healthcare companies with purpose-led missions. Driven by empowering people to take control of their health, she helps make the science behind hormones accessible for our community, so they can make clued-up choices about their healthcare.
Medically reviewed by
Dr. Laura Jogineau
Gynaecologist, with a Masters in Clinical Medicine, Laura has lead public and private hospitals in Spain and was previously clinical Lead at Zava. Combining clinical practice with research, she regularly publishes research papers with her multidisciplinary group. Laura is passionate about women and people with cycles’ health and making healthcare accessible to everyone.
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