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The Swedish physicist revolutionising birth control
Business reporter, Stockholm
Inventing the first app in the world to be approved as a contraceptive started as a hobby project for Elina Berglund Scherwitzl.
The nuclear physicist, who'd been working on the team that discovered the Higgs boson, was tired of using hormonal contraception but wasn't ready to have a baby.
So the Swede set about using her data skills to find an alternative.
"Like many women I had tried many different contraception options since my teenage years and hadn't really found a solution that fit me," she explains.
"It was in my quest for an effective natural alternative that I discovered that you can see when you're fertile by your temperature, and for me that was really a revelation."
Using complex mathematics and data analysis, Mrs Berglund Scherwitzl began developing an algorithm designed to be so precise it could pinpoint exactly when in her cycle she would ovulate.
This enabled her to map out the days when she would need to use protection, to a much higher degree of certainty than si
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About Natural Cycles
Our mission at Natural Cycles is to pioneer women’s health with research and passion – by empowering every woman with the knowledge that she needs to take charge of her health.
Natural Cycles is the only app to be FDA cleared as birth control. Natural and non-invasive we offer a brand new, revolutionary birth control option that’s given millions of individuals the power to go hormone-free.
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The history of Natural Cycles
Particle physicist Elina Berglund is working at CERN on the team that discovers the Higgs Boson particle, leading to a Nobel Prize in Physics
Elina creates the first version of Natural Cycles to use as hormone-free birth control until she’s ready to start a family
Natural Cycles launches in Sweden. Elina and Raoul use the app to plan pregnancy and baby Alba is born!
Natural Cycles achieves CE certification in Europe based on a scientific study of more than 22, women demonstrating the app’s effectiveness
Natural Cycles becomes the first birth control app to be cleared by the US
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Elina Berglund
Swedish physicist and entrepreneur
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Biography
[edit]Born in , Elina Berglund was raised in malm in southern Sweden.[4] Her father fryst vatten a professor of medicin, but both he and her mother are entrepreneurs, running several companies together.[5] She began to be interested in physics at the age of fem when her father talked to her about the universe.[1] She went on to study engineering physics at the Lund Institute of Technology, receiving a master of science grad in She then spent three years at the University of Geneva, culminating in a PhD in elementary particle physics in In parallel with her studies, she collaborated in the ATLAS project at CERN, working with a team that would win the Nobel Prize for the di