Disclaimer

This is education, not medical advice

FemOptimize is written by someone who reads research carefully and cites it properly. It is not written by a doctor, and there is currently no clinician reviewing it. Nothing here diagnoses anything, and nothing here is a treatment recommendation for you specifically.

It cannot know anything about you

Research describes averages across groups of people who met a trial's criteria. You are not an average. Your medical history, your medications, your family history and your risk profile all change what any of this means for you, and none of that is visible from here.

Talk to a clinician who knows your history before you start or stop a medication, begin a supplement, or change anything about how you're being treated for a condition. If a healthcare professional's advice contradicts something you read here, follow theirs — they have information this site does not.

Urgent symptoms

Do not use this site to decide whether something urgent can wait. If you have symptoms that worry you, contact your doctor or your local emergency service. Nothing on this site should ever delay you getting seen.

Research moves

Articles carry the date they were last reviewed against their sources. Evidence changes, and an article that was accurate when written can stop being accurate. Where a claim's evidence is weak or contested, the article grades it that way — read the grade, not just the sentence. The full standard is on how we research.

External links

Articles link out to studies, journals and organisations. Those links are there so you can check the source yourself. We don't control what's on them, and linking to a study is not an endorsement of everything its authors have said elsewhere.