How this gets written, and who checks it.
Health content is easy to write and hard to trust. This page says where the information comes from, what has to pass before a page ships, and the one thing we do not claim.
Effective August 24, 2026.
Where the information comes from
Clinical claims here trace to one of three places: clinical guidance and position statements from specialty bodies such as The Menopause Society, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; peer-reviewed primary literature; and the published validation studies behind the instruments this site implements.
Every content page carries its own reference list naming the specific guideline recommendation or paper a claim rests on. Not a gesture at "studies show", the actual recommendation number or the actual paper. If a claim on this site has no source under it, that is a defect, and the next section is how you tell us.
Where sources disagree, guidance from a specialty body outranks any single study.
The instruments are implemented, not invented
The check is a 16-item questionnaire across vasomotor, psychological, physical, and sexual domains, with cycle-pattern staging based on STRAW+10 criteria. The Menopause Rating Scale page implements the published MRS rather than a lookalike. Where this site uses someone else's instrument, it says whose, and cites the work that validated it.
One boundary is worth stating because most consumer pages get it backwards: perimenopause ends twelve months after the final period. The silent year is the last part of perimenopause, not the thing that comes after it.
What has to pass before a page ships
Pages are generated from one source file each, so the questions in the visible FAQ and the questions in the page's structured data cannot drift apart. They render from the same strings.
Automated checks then reject a page for a dead internal link, a canonical that does not match, copy that contradicts the site's standing claims about being free and unstored, or content too similar to another page. A page that fails is not published at all, rather than published and flagged.
What we do not claim
No clinician has reviewed these pages. That is the honest position today, and it is why no page here carries a "medically reviewed by" line and why none of them show a review date. A review date with nobody's name under it is decoration, not a check, and plenty of health sites ship exactly that.
When it changes, each reviewed page will name the reviewer, their credential, and the date they looked at it, and this page will say who they are and what they covered.
Nothing here diagnoses anything. The check is educational screening, and it says so on every screen that matters.
The wall between what we write and how we earn
Content decisions and money decisions do not touch. No partner reviews, approves, or previews a page before it ships, and no page exists because a partner asked for one. Nobody buys a placement in the writing any more than they buy the top card in your results.
If your answers raise a safety flag, the care path stops and carries no commercial links at all. The full money conversation, including who the partners are, is on the disclosures page.
When pages change
Each page records the date it last changed. That date means the content was edited, and nothing more than that. It is not a claim that anyone re-checked the underlying sources on that day, and we would rather it stayed a small honest fact than became a trust badge.
Telling us we got something wrong
Corrections are welcome and they get published. How to report one, what happens next, and the running log of what has been fixed all live on the corrections page. The address is wave@perigirlies.com and it is read by a person.