Scientist and Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Eliza Berglund has co-created Natural Cycles, a digital app that display a woman’s daily fertility.
Video Content: Dr. Eliza Berglund and Dr. Juan Acuna (2019)
Dr. Eliza Berglund is joined by Dr. Juan Acuna to discuss the digital app, Natural Cycles.
(Please Note: “Sidewalks Entertainment” and its staff were not paid for the promotion of Natural Cycles. This is an informative segment for our viewers.)
Mini-Biographies:
Dr. Elina Berglund, PhD, is the CTO and co-founder, Natural Cycles. As a former member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Dr. Berhlund was part of the team that discovered the Higgs Boson particle – one of the most significant discoveries in particle physics, which went on to win a Nobel Prize.
Dr. Juan Acuna is the Chair of the Department of Medical Health and Sciences Research at Florida International University. Dr. Acuna, a teacher and a practitioner, is one of the industry’s leading voices on gynecology and public health, and lectures all over the world.
What is Natural Cycles:
Natural Cycles was founded in June 2013 by Dr. Elina Berglund and her husband Dr. Raoul Scherwitzl, who also has a background in physics. Natural Cycles’ mission is to pioneer women’s health with research and passion, by empowering every woman with the knowledge she needs in order to understand her unique monthly cycle. Natural Cycles has users around the world, and is based in Sweden, with operations in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and soon-to-be the United States.
The idea for Natural Cycles was first conceived when the married couple started to think about having a family. Using the techniques she had learned through the Higgs Boson project, Dr. Berhlund created an algorithm to help predict fertility by analyzing temperature readings, taking factors like sperm survival, temperature fluctuations, variations in cycle length, ovulation day, and the length of the follicular and luteal phase into account to identify fertile and infertile days.
Interview Credits:
Recorded: January 10, 2019
Producer: Lori Rosales
Editor: Richard R. Lee
Special Thanks To: Natural Cycles, Melissa Cruz