Editorial standards
How our guides are written, sourced, dated and corrected — and exactly what we do, and do not, claim about medical review.
Who writes the guides
The guides are written and edited by our editorial team, which works on menopause content full time. We are not a clinic, and none of the authors is a clinician, so we never present ourselves as one.
Where the facts come from
Every guide follows one hierarchy of evidence: clinical guidelines from NICE, The Menopause Society, the World Health Organization, ESHRE and Cochrane first, then peer-reviewed primary research. Each guide lists at least three papers behind it, with the PubMed identifier and the DOI, so any statement can be traced to its source in one click. Where the evidence is contested — around hormone therapy after the Women's Health Initiative, for example — the guide says so instead of picking the version that reads better.
The source check behind each page
On 28 October 2026 we compared every paragraph containing a number, a dose, a percentage or a year in all 54 guides with the abstract of the papers that guide cites: 387 claims in all. Fourteen of them contradicted the cited evidence and were corrected rather than softened — a prevalence the current guideline puts at 3.5% where the guide said 1%, a response range the source gives as 40-65% where the guide said 25-69%, a drug described as unapproved after its first approval, a risk described as doubling where the pooled estimate is 1.4 times. Figures that could not be traced to a cited paper are disclosed on the guide, not dressed up. This is the review our structured data means by reviewedBy: an editorial check against sources, performed by the publisher, not a clinician's review.
What we do not claim
We name no medical reviewer, because we do not have one: no clinician has personally read and signed off these pages. Crediting a doctor who has not done that work would be a false statement about a real person, and it would make the guide less trustworthy, not more. What we offer instead is checkable: sources on every page, dates that only move when something actually changes, and a correction address where a person answers.
Dates and updates
Each guide carries the date its sources were last checked and, separately, the date its text was last edited; the structured data published with the page carries the same two dates. Every guide is re-checked at least once a year, and again whenever a guideline it relies on is revised. A date that moved on every rebuild would carry no information, so ours do not.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, write to hello@menopausediscover.com and we will answer within seven days. Factual corrections are applied to the page; when a correction changes the substance of a guide, its check date is renewed. We would rather fix a claim than defend it.
Independence
The site and the app are funded by app subscriptions. No pharmaceutical company, clinic or advertiser pays for coverage, supplies content, or sees a draft before publication. This site carries no advertising. Analytics is a single Google Analytics property, loaded only after a visitor accepts, and described in the privacy policy.
Limits
These guides are health information, not medical care. They cannot diagnose you, they do not know your history or your medication, and they never replace an appointment. For severe or sudden symptoms, contact emergency services; for anything new, severe or persistent, see a doctor.