The site name is The Female Atlas: what the site is and who writes it

What is The Female Atlas?

It is a map of what happens to a woman's body across the life stages, written so you can find your own stage and get a straight answer. The six parts are childhood, puberty, the reproductive years, perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause, and the idea underneath all of them is simple: women deserve information built on female bodies.

The series is dated November 2026 and is built as one connected whole. Reading it from start to finish works, and so does dipping into a single part when that is all you need.

Every part follows the same order: what changes, a focus topic, nutrition, supplements, training or activity with an example week, sleep and lifestyle, health checks and key sources. Learn one part and you know where to find things in the rest.

It is for the woman who wants to understand her own stage, and for the mom, daughter, sister or friend reading on someone else's behalf. You don't need a science background: exact terms are used and explained in everyday words.

Guidance and units follow US guidelines first, with metric alongside and UK or other national differences noted in the same sentence where they matter. That means pounds, ounces and °F first with kilograms, grams and °C beside them, and UK terms such as GP or cervical screening sitting next to the US ones, such as primary care provider or Pap test.

Strength training, nutrition, supplements, and what the research says versus what social media says keep coming back across every part. Each page ends with clear next steps, so you always know where to go from there.

Who writes The Female Atlas, and where do the sources sit?

I write under my own name, alongside the early stages desk for the earlier years and the later life desk for the years further on. Pages from the desks carry The Female Atlas team as the author rather than a named person, and mine carry my name. The standard is the same whoever writes a page, even though the voice changes.

The method behind every page is set out on how we check facts. Each chapter ends with its key sources, and the references sit in one place under all sources, so you can follow any claim back to where it came from. Each reference is named with its year, so you can look it up yourself.

Where the evidence for something is thin, the page says so. A natural-first approach is a fair choice, as long as it never delays a treatment that works.

Is the site medical advice, and how is it best used?

No, and the information disclaimer sets that out in full. A sensible step is to talk to your doctor or a qualified health professional before significant changes to diet, training, supplements or medication. For a child's feeding, growth, development or medicines, the people to ask are a pediatrician, family doctor or pharmacist. In the UK, that first call is often your GP or pharmacist. Where your own doctor's advice differs from a page here, theirs comes first.

The pages are general, so they can't take your own history, medications or test results into account. That is where your doctor comes in, and a pharmacist is often the easiest first call about an over-the-counter product.

Pages that need them carry red-flag lists and a note on when to see a doctor, so you know which symptoms are worth a conversation sooner rather than later.

A good way to use the site is to read your own stage first, then the one before and the one after. The stage before explains how you got here, and the stage after shows what you might start preparing for. If you are in the years leading up to menopause, perimenopause is the part written for you.

Pages give the mainstream guidance and, where there is one, the alternative view, then say which option the research supports most, and why. Natural, medical or somewhere in between, the aim is that you see the full picture before you choose!

Ages are given as ranges unless a guideline sets a specific age, and health is described as strength, function and how you feel, never a number on the scale.

Next steps

A good first step is to pick the part that matches where you are today and start with the section that answers your biggest question. Take what is useful, follow the key sources on anything that matters to you, and come back to the stages before and after when you are ready. Trial and error is part of this, so be kind to yourself along the way. What you take from these pages, and what you leave, is yours to decide, because women's health is not one size fits all.