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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Great
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</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>While giving a talk
on vitamins at a local college, I mentioned British Captain James Cook, who
was unusually dedicated in employing nutrition to wipe out scurvy on his
ships. I mentioned that, on a long voyage, Captain Cook did experiments
with his seamen. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Of course I get a
lot of questions about natural birth control. (Pretty funny, that is.
I've got a question for you: Would you like to know how many of my kids were
unplanned?) I'm also asked, What options are there to drug or barrier
methods? Can a safe, natural form of contraception really cost nothing,
and be over 99% effective? As a former school sex-education coordinator
and author of a Master's thesis on the subject, I offer the following excerpt
if you are interested.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>THE OVULATION AND
MUCUS METHODS OF BIRTH CONTROL</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Even if it is
granted that birth control education should begin very early, and that
fertility awareness is a desirable inclusion, some objections may
remain. One such objection is that there is no reliable indicator of
fertility. This erroneous idea is widely held but false. A woman's
cervical mucus secretion is a most reliable indicator of fertility (Clift,
1945; Billings, 1981). Using this fact to prevent conception is the basis for
the ovulation method of birth control.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The Billings Method
is named after Drs. John and Evelyn Billings of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>. They
were instrumental in developing, testing and promoting this natural birth
control method since the early 1950's. It is similar to the Ovulation Method
or the Mucus Method. It is not the Rhythm Method. In fact, the reason
the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Billingses</st1:place></st1:City>
began their investigation of natural birth control in the first place is
because the Rhythm Method was not reliable.</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> "Natural birth
control" often conjures up images of ineffectiveness, complexity and
Catholicism. This is unfortunate and inaccurate. Natural birth
control methods are at the very least better than no contraception at
all. Even the Rhythm Method, when carefully and consistently employed,
may be as high as 80% effective in preventing pregnancy (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>, 1978). Rhythm has been
widely used since1930. Kantner and Zelnik (1972) said that </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> "Those who
have heard about the Rhythm Method, however, generally know more than those
who have not about the time of risk within the menstrual cycle. About
47 percent of those who have heard about rhythm know when the
period of greatest risk is, compared to 24 percent of those who
have not heard about rhythm." (p. 17)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Learning rhythm, then,
seems to increase fertility awareness.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Because the failure
rate with rhythm is still too high, there have been attempts to improve on
it. The temperature method is perhaps one of the best known refinements
on rhythm. It is based on an observed temperature rise at the time of a
woman's ovulation each month. Three days after this temperature rise,
she is infertile until at least the next menstrual period. While
temperature indicates ovulation, it fails to predict it. Intercourse
before the thermal shift, then, again becomes a matter of rhythm-style
calendar estimation. Another drawback is that "Not all temperature
curves have a temperature rise which is easily recognizable. Often it
is difficult to correctly determine the beginning of the hyperthermic
phase" (Doring, 1973, p. 173). A significant temperature rise may
be as low as 0.1 degree centigrade, making this quite reliable method
demanding to use.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The Billings Method
refines and simplifies natural birth control greatly. Its refinements
are that it requires no equipment (no thermometer, no calendar), no
guesswork, and that it will predict ovulation. It is simple enough that
"At least 80% of women learn the ovulation (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>) method at the initial
instruction" (Billings, 1973, p. 167). "Experience has shown
that an overwhelming majority of women, probably nine out of ten, can
immediately interpret their own mucus system... The remainder can also be
taught to do so" (Billings & Billings, 1974).</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The ovulation/mucus
method is a one-step reading of a woman's cervical mucus. It is
performed by the woman herself in a moment and without internal
examination. Every day, she gently wipes the labia with clean, dry,
white toilet paper. She looks at the paper to see if there is any mucus
on it. If there is, she is likely to be fertile. If the mucus is wet
and slippery, and can be easily stretched, then she is very fertile. If
the paper stays dry, she is likely to be infertile that day. On the day
of the most wet, slippery, clear mucus she is most fertile of all. This
day is called the peak day, and is often the very day she ovulates. She will
also feel wettest on this day. She remains fertile for three days after
the peak.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> It does not matter
how old the woman is, nor does it matter how long her menstrual cycles
are. Unlike with the Rhythm Method, there is no need for regular
menstrual cycles. There is no need to 'fit" into a normal,
clockwork-like 28 day model. If a woman has short menstrual cycles, she
will ovulate early. If they are long, she will ovulate late. The mucus
is there at ovulation, regardless. If she misses a period, there will
simply have been no ovulation, and therefore no fertile, wet mucus that
cycle.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> A woman does not
even have to know how to read and write to use ovulation methods
effectively. Trials in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(Polynesian islands in the south Pacific) between 1970 and 1972 showed high
levels of acceptance and success with the Billings Method.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"331 couples opted
for the ovulation method. Most women found the mucus symptom immediately
recognizable, and were pleased by the simplicity of the
method." (Weissmann et al, 1972, p. 813)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Colored stamps, shells,
beads and knots in a rope are sufficient for record keeping. Even blind women
can be taught to use the method (Billings, 1981; Billings & Billings,
1974).</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Abnormal
temperature, such as a low fever, will interfere with the temperature method
of birth control. It will not obstruct accurate readings with the ovulation
method, however. Abnormal vaginal discharges, also, "do not prevent the
woman from recognizing the time of fertility" (Weissmann et al, 1972, p.
814).</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The ovulation mucus
symptom is common to all women, including post-menarche girls. Given the
knowledge, any woman can use the method for her entire reproductive lifetime
without financial cost. Unlike medical methods of birth control, there
are no harmful side effects with the Billings Method. Since a
significant number of adolescent girls avoid birth control because they perceive
it as harmful to their bodies (Zabian & Clark. 1987), this is an
important positive feature of the method. Indeed, increased
self-knowledge has very positive results. Says <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>: "This self-awareness of the
natural manifestations of female reproductive physiology... offers warnings
against impulsive sexual relationships which might lead to pregnancy"
(1981, p.194).</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> It is one thing for
knowledge to exist and another thing to deliver that knowledge to those who
most need it. One of the problems in teaching the ovulation, mucus
and/or <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>
methods has been a shortage of informed teachers. The National Directory
of Billings Ovulation Method Teachers (1988) lists fewer than 400 entries for
the entire <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Few
physicians and nurses know of the method's effectiveness, and fewer teach
it. Yet <st1:City w:st="on">Billings</st1:City> (1972) said that
"The combined biological failure-rate and user-failure rate of the
ovulation (<st1:City w:st="on">Billings</st1:City>) method in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region> was
0.69%" (p. 1193). This is a very low failure rate indeed, since
Rossman (1967) places the birth control pill at 1.2%. Planned Parenthood
says that excellent use of natural birth control can be up to 99% effective.
(What's the best method of birth control for me?", 1986). It would
not seem that lack of effectiveness explains failure to promote the
ovulation/ mucus methods. It is more likely that there is some other reason.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The simplicity of
these methods has already been discussed above, as has the universality of
the mucus symptom among women. If it is a simple matter, and if all women
experience it, perhaps it has not been taught simply enough, or not taught at
all.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> A nurse-midwife
taught me and my wife at the time these methods in half an hour. It took
another few hours to read the book (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>,
1978. The Ovulation Method. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Collegeville</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:State></st1:place>: Liturgical
Press). We subsequently used this method for nearly 15 years and the
method, properly used, never resulted in an unplanned pregnancy. <i>Again
and again I say, you are designed to reproduce. Be certain you are correctly
instructed in this, or any other birth control technique, by an experienced
instructor. </i></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Common-sense caution:
The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>
Method, and the Mucus and Ovulation Methods, obviously provide no protection
whatsoever from sexually transmitted diseases. This is one of the most
important reasons why it is appropriate only for strictly monogamous,
long-term relationships.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Sex is more fun
(and maybe even more frequent) if you are confident about the outcome. </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> By the way, you can
use the method backwards to assist conception. If a woman knows when she
is ovulating, obviously it will greatly increase her chances of becoming
pregnant.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> And now to enrage
the GYN’s, fertility specialists, and dietitians:</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>If you WANT to conceive</b>, try having
the man take megadoses of vitamin C for a few weeks prior. At least
6,000 milligrams a day, and as much as 20,000 mg/day virtually guarantees
very high sperm production. Divide the dose throughout the day for maximum
effect. And that effect is what, exactly? More sperm, stronger sperm,
and better swimming sperm all occurred, at even lower daily C doses, in a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> study. Take more C and you'll
make vast quantities of super sperm. You think this won't work? Have I
shown you my baby pictures?</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Here’s more:
zinc and plenty of it helps the prostate and increases seminal fluid
production. There is a scientific literature a mile long about zinc and male
fertility. About five to ten times the RDA will do it. That is
approximately 50 to 100 mg of zinc daily. For best absorption and best
results, divide the dose into two, or better yet, four doses. Zinc
gluconate is well absorbed, and zinc monomethionine better still. These
are available at any health food store without a prescription.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> A lot of wussy
nutritionists will tell you that such levels of zinc are harmful. Truth
is, most men don't even get the puny RDA of zinc, set laughingly at 10 or 12
milligrams. Zinc lozenges for the common cold are many times higher than
this. Up to 550 mg of zinc has been safely given daily for a few weeks.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Continued high
doses of zinc can produce a copper deficiency, and sometimes a copper
deficiency anemia. This is very easy to compensate for. To begin
with, most Americans have copper water pipes in their homes. Drink a
glass or two of cold water first out of the tap every morning and you'll get
copper. Secondly, eat more raisins and other copper-high foods.
Third, take a multiple vitamin (as you should be doing anyway) with copper in
it. Finally, do what people in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> have been doing for
thousands of years. Buy a copper metal cup, fill it with cold water at
bedtime, and drink it first thing the next morning. </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> I have worked with supposedly "infertile"
people who have tried "everything" to conceive a child. </span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nutrition, especially the vitamin
C part, is not even mentioned in any fertility textbook I've ever
seen. I've received some nice postcards from couples who have taken an
odd idea or two of mine and gotten pregnant within a month or two. It is
a wonderful feeling, by the way, to have helped them bring a soul to the
Earth.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>References:</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Billings</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, J. (1972). Ovulation
method of family planning. The Lancet. 2:1193-l194</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Billings</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, J. (1973). Discussion, pp. 164-170.
In M. Zelnik, J. Kantner, & K. Ford (Ed.) Sex and Pregnancy in
Adolescence. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beverly Hills</st1:place></st1:City>:
Sage</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Billings</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, J. (1978). The Ovulation Method.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Collegeville</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:State></st1:place>: Liturgical Press</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Billings</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, J. (1981). Cervical mucus: the
biological marker of fertility and infertility. International Journal of
Fertility. 26:182-195.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Billings</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, J. & Billings, E. (1974).
Teaching the safe period based on the mucus symptom. Linacre Quarterly.
41: 41-51.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Clift, A.F. (1945).
Observations on certain rheological properties of human cervical secretion
. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 39:1-9.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Doring, G.K.
(1973). Detection of ovulation by the basal body temperature method. In
M. Zelnik, J. Kantner, & K. Ford (Ed.), Sex and Pregnancy in
Adolescence. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Beverly Hills</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State></st1:place>: Sage</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Klaus, H. (1984). Valuing
the precreative capacity: a new approach to teens. International Review of
Natural Family Planning, 8: 206-213.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Klaus, H. et al.
(1987) Fertility awareness-natural family planning for adolescents and
their families: Report of multisite pilot project. International
Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. 3:101-119.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Klaus, H., Labbok, M.,
& Barker, D. (1988). Characteristics of ovulation method acceptors: a
cross-cultural assessment. Studies in Family Planning. 19: 299-304.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>National Directory of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City> Ovulation
Method Teachers (1988). <st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State>: Natural Family Planning <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Center of Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Teen STAR
program" pamphlet. (1986) <st1:City w:st="on">Bethesda</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State>: Natural Family Planning <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Center of Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Weissman, M.C., Foliaki,
L., <st1:City w:st="on">Billings</st1:City>, E., & <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Billings</st1:place></st1:City>, J. (1972). A trial of the
ovulation method of family planning in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Tonga</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The Lancet. 2: 813-816.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"What's the best
method of birth control for me?" (1986) <st1:City w:st="on">Rochester</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State>: Planned parenthood of <st1:City w:st="on">Rochester</st1:City>
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Genesee</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Zabin, L.S., & <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Clark</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">S.D.</st1:State></st1:place>
(1981). Why they delay: a study of teenage family planning clinic patients.
Family Planning Perspectives 13: 205-217.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Zabin, L.S., Kantner,
J.F., and Zelnik, M. (1979). The risk of adolescent pregnancy in the first
months of intercourse. Family Planning Perspectives. 11: 215-222.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Zelnik, M., Kantner,
J.F., & Ford, K. (1981). Sex and pregnancy in adolescence. <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Beverly Hills</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State></st1:place>:
Sage.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
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