APPROACH

How we decide what to publish, and what we leave out

Women's health content has a credibility problem, most of it earned. These are the rules we hold ourselves to, written down so you can hold us to them.

We say how strong the evidence is, every time

Each piece carries an evidence label and a plain statement of what would change our mind. A well-powered randomised trial and a mouse study are not the same thing, and the writing should never make them look the same.

We never sell what we write about

Plena does not sell supplements, peptides, tests or affiliate links, and it never will. The app is paid for by subscription. That is the only way an article about magnesium can be trusted to say magnesium might not help you.

Clinician review, named on the page

Articles that have been reviewed by a registered clinician carry the reviewer's name at the top. Pieces that have not been through review yet say so just as plainly — we would rather show you the gap than imply a credential.

We write about absence of evidence too

Women's midlife health is under-researched, and pretending otherwise is how bad advice spreads. Where the honest answer is that nobody knows yet, that is the article.

Your data stays yours

Anonymised charts appear here only with explicit, revocable permission from the person whose record it is. We do not train models on your data and we do not sell it to anyone.

EVIDENCE LABELSEvery piece carries one of four labels at the top, and we say what would change it.

SETTLEDConsistent findings across multiple good-quality human trials.

EMERGINGPromising human data, but small, short or not yet replicated.

CONTESTEDCredible researchers disagree, or the trials conflict.

MECHANISMBiologically plausible, no meaningful human outcome data yet.

CORRECTIONSWhen we get something wrong we change the article, date the change, and say what it was. Corrections are listed here rather than quietly folded into the text.

Nothing here yet. When we correct something, this is where it will be listed.

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