Yolene Brue

Yolene Brue writes for The Female Atlas team's early stages desk, which covers childhood, puberty and the reproductive years. The desk turns current guidelines and research into clear, practical advice for girls, young women and the parents supporting them. For the years that come later, the team's guides on perimenopause and HRT are there.

Her topics include first periods and what's normal, heavy or painful periods, cycles and training, fertility and pregnancy, and conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS. Many readers arrive worried, so each piece says what is common first, then what the evidence shows.

Yolene is not medically trained, and her pages sit beside the guidelines the team brings together rather than replacing them. Many women find it reassuring to know when a visit is worthwhile: pain that keeps you from school, work or your usual day, bleeding that soaks through protection quickly or that worries you, or a pattern that has changed and stays changed. In the UK, your GP is a good first call.

How we write

• Health claims name the guideline or study behind them, with its year, so you can look it up yourself.
• Each page shows the date it was published, so you can judge how current it is.
• Every person, quote and photo on the site is real; none are invented or AI-generated.