With the collaboration between the ‘digital contraceptive’, Natural Cycles, and the Oura Ring, it has become even easier to track fertility and log body temperature without manually using a thermometer.
The FDA-approved Natural Cycles app, compatible with both iOS and Android, provides a hands-free approach to fertility tracking. This collaboration, enhanced with Natural Cycles’ accuracy, revolutionalizes the modern-day family planning.
Want to learn more about this incredible tech and its integration? Keep reading!
How to Use Natural Cycles With Your Oura Ring?
While not BBT, the Oura Ring tracks our skin temperature and displays an average in the morning. This temperature reading is synced to the Natural Cycles app automatically when you sync the Oura Ring to the Oura app, without fail.
This eliminates the need to manually log your basal body temperature with a thermometer at the same time every morning. Combining the temperature readings recorded by the Oura Ring with the logged period data, the Natural Cycles app uses its algorithm to predict fertility status.
This FDA-cleared, non-intrusive, and hormone-free digital contraceptive marks calendar dates as green (not fertile) and red (high chances of getting pregnant). This information can be used to plan a pregnancy or as birth control.
But Why Body Temperature?
Oura uses data gathered over 60 nights to create a personal baseline, and the body temperature deviations, although unnoticeable and as little as 0.3°C to 0.7°C (or 0.4°F to 1°F) approximately, is utilized in conjunction with previously logged period dates to determine cycle phases and fertility.
But why Oura? Isn’t a thermometer more accurate?
If you’re thinking about this, I had the same questions. So, I dug a little deeper and found out the facts behind Oura’s temperature data accuracy. Oura’s temperature data was found to match with research-grade tools by 99% under lab conditions and 92% under real world conditions.
Also, as per my research and use of the Oura Ring over time, an average of the nightly temperature recording is better than a one-time measurement taken manually. Also, striving to take the measurement at the same time each morning for someone who loves the snooze button is a task in itself.
How Effective Is Natural Cycle with The Oura Ring?
With Natural Cycles being 93% effective with regular use and 98% effective with precise use, combining it with Oura’s temperature accuracy and timely data recordings, I think the stats speak for themselves.
Natural Cycles received another FDA clearance when they collaborated with the Oura Ring to use the same in conjunction with the device.
The many customer success stories are also a testament to their effectiveness.
Price
Ok, so there’s a catch. You need an Oura Ring, an active Oura membership, and a Natural Cycles subscription. I know, it’s a lot. Let me break down the cost for you:
- Oura Ring starts at $299 and goes up to $549 for its rose gold variant.
- The Oura membership, which enables you to see all the data (it’s just the three scores without the membership otherwise), costs $5.99 per month, post the 1 month free trial.
- The Natural Cycles subscription costs $16.99/month or $119.99/ year (40% off).
Seems pretty bank-breaking, I know. But if you look at it long term, cost wise as well as it not having adverse effects on your health like mood swings, hair fall, breakouts, etc., it’s not that bad. But you really have to look at it from a far point of view. Like really far.
Good news, though, if you have either one of the two, Natural Cycles or the Oura Ring, you’re eligible for a discount.
New User of The Natural Cycles App, Existing User of Oura Ring
If you already own an Oura Ring and have an active membership, you get four weeks free when you sign up for the Natural Cycles subscription.
Existing User of The Natural Cycles App, New to The Oura Ring
If you’re an existing member of Natural Cycles subscription, you can avail a $40 off on the purchase of a new Oura Ring.
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Wrap Up
The integration of Natural Cycles with the Oura Ring marks a significant achievement in fertility tracking technology. Combining an FDA-cleared algorithm with a device that eliminates the need to record daily temperature readings manually empowers women to take hold of their reproductive journey.
In addition, the Oura Ring doesn’t just serve one function. The daily recordings of the Oura Ring provide useful insights into my sleep patterns, motivate me to move more throughout the day, and help me lead a healthier lifestyle.
