Our editorial policy

We build pages from, in roughly this order:

1. International guidelines and position statements: The Menopause Society 2022 hormone therapy statement and 2023 nonhormone therapy statement, NICE guideline NG23 (updated November 2024), and regulator notices such as the US FDA's November 2025 label changes.
2. Philippine sources: UP Manila and PGH OB-GYN faculty, the Philippine Society of Climacteric Medicine (PSCM), Philippine studies in the Philippine Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and FDA Philippines rules.
3. Primary research papers for specific numbers.
4. Real voices: what Filipinas write on Reddit and in public forums. We quote these to show how people describe their experience ("Filipinas on Reddit report..."), never as evidence that a treatment works.

Every page lists its sources at the bottom.

Some figures come from a secondary source (a search summary or aggregator) or are well known in the medical literature but were not re-read at the original source while writing. Before a page is published, an editor checks each of those at the primary source. If it holds up, we cite that source. If it does not, we correct it. If we cannot confirm it, we rewrite the sentence to what we can support or take the number out. We would rather give you a smaller claim we can back up than a confident number we have not confirmed.

All prices live in one data file with the source, the link and the date checked. Pages pull from that file, so a price is never typed by hand. Each price list says when prices were checked. Pharmacy chains change prices often and some block automated checks, so call ahead before you go. Our Menopause Cost Index explains how we collect them each month.

• Registered products first. We lead with FDA-registered hormone therapy and non-hormonal options.
• Generic name first, brand second, as the Generics Act requires.
• Honest ratings. If a guideline says something does not work, we say so, even for products we link to. The Menopause Society 2023 statement does not recommend herbal remedies or soy for hot flashes, and our supplements page says that plainly.
• Absolute numbers for risks wherever the source gives them, so "higher risk" never sounds scarier or smaller than it is.
• Compounded "bioidentical" hormones get one honest explainer and are never promoted.
• No personal dosing. Example regimens are labelled "Example only, your doctor sets your dose".

We take no money from pharmaceutical companies and run no sponsored articles about prescription medicines. Prescription medicines cannot be advertised to the public in the Philippines (FDA AO 65), and we write about them in plain educational form only. Read how we make money for the full picture.

If you find an error, tell us. We check it against the source, fix it, and change the page's "updated" date. Substantial corrections (a wrong number, a changed recommendation) are noted on the page. Clinics and doctors listed in our directory can ask for a correction or removal at any time.

Pages are editorially reviewed before publishing. Medical review by a Filipino OB-GYN is being set up; see medical review for where that stands.