How we write and review our content

Menopause content is health content, and health content carries responsibility. This page explains exactly how ours gets made — so you can judge for yourself whether to trust it.

Who writes it

Articles are written by the Cyclora editorial team — the people building the Cyclora app — in plain language, for real people, with no clinical jargon unless it's the clearest available term. We are not clinicians, and we don't pretend to be; that's precisely why the rules below exist.

What sources qualify

Every factual claim in our articles traces to one of:

• Peer-reviewed research — with long-running cohort studies like SWAN (the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) weighted above single small studies
• Clinical guidance — position statements from The Menopause Society (NAMS), NICE guidelines, and equivalent bodies
• Established medical institutions — NHS, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and peers

Each article lists its sources at the end. We don't cite wellness blogs, supplement sellers, or anyone with something to sell you — including, on medical questions, ourselves.

What we deliberately don't do

• We don't diagnose, and our quiz and app don't either.
• We don't overpromise: "may help" means may.
• We don't use fear to keep you reading. Red-flag symptoms are listed clearly and calmly, once, where they belong.
• We don't run advertising, product recommendations, or affiliate links on this site — no "10 best products" lists, ever. Articles exist to inform, full stop.

Medical review

Articles carry a "medically reviewed by" byline once a qualified clinician has reviewed them. Where that byline is absent, the review hasn't happened yet — we'd rather be honest about that than decorate pages with borrowed authority. Building out clinician review across the library is an active priority.

Updates and corrections

Menopause research moves. We revisit articles as guidance changes, and we correct errors when readers point them out — genuinely, gratefully, and quickly. Spotted one? Tell us.