About: Our Scientific Method

Our mission

Women aged 40 to 55 go through a major hormonal transition (perimenopause, menopause) often in a fog, poorly informed, and tired of superficial advice. VivanaFem exists to fill that gap: clear, verified information, published in French and English, on menopause, hormones and women's nutrition, to understand your body and take back control of your health.

Our method: science first

Our golden rule is simple and non-negotiable: every piece of content relies on verifiable scientific sources. In practice:

A minimum of 3 studies from PubMed, peer-reviewed journals or clinical trials for every video and every article.
Cited, accessible sources: we publish the references (PubMed links) so you can check for yourself.
Zero invented data: no figure, no claim that cannot be traced back to its source.
Credibility before virality: we never sacrifice accuracy for clicks. When the science is nuanced, we say so.

Who funds VivanaFem

A health website must say where its money comes from. VivanaFem is funded by the advertising displayed on its pages, served through Google AdSense, and by nothing else. Ads only load after you make your choice in the consent banner.

This funding has no hold on what is written:

No sponsored content: no article, test or video is commissioned, reviewed, approved or funded by a brand, a laboratory, a supplement manufacturer or a clinic.
No affiliate links: we earn nothing if you buy a product we mention, and we sell no products, no supplements and no consultations.
No health data passed to any advertiser: the details are in our privacy policy.
Any future partnership would be disclosed at the top of the article, before the text.

The full details are on the funding and conflicts of interest page of our editorial method, and in our legal notice.

Who writes the content?

Bouchra Jabri, founder, editorial lead and publishing director

Bouchra created VivanaFem to give French-speaking women rigorous, accessible health information on menopause and hormones. She designs, documents and proofreads every piece of content on the site following our editorial method: primary PubMed sources verified one by one, the hierarchy of evidence respected, zero invented data.

She writes alone and takes sole responsibility for what is published: her name appears in the legal notice as publisher and publishing director. Topics come from the questions readers send in and from what the scientific literature actually allows us to say.

She is not a doctor, and this site says so rather than letting you guess. To date, the content is not reviewed by a healthcare professional before publication. That is exactly why the method is so strict: every claim can be traced back to a published study, the references are displayed at the bottom of the page, and each piece of content refers you to a healthcare professional for any decision that concerns you. You can go back to the source. So can your doctor.

And since August 26, 2026, we go one step further. Articles on the most sensitive topics are checked, line by line, against the recommendations of French and then international medical societies. Each one carries, at the end of the page, a box stating which documents it was checked against and on what date, with the link to each document. This is not a medical review, and we do not call it that: it is a verification you can redo yourself. How we proceed.

Why I created this site

I have been in perimenopause for three years. This site was not born of intellectual curiosity: it was born of symptoms I could neither name nor get taken seriously.

Brain fog first: searching for an everyday word mid-conversation, reading the same paragraph three times. Weight gain, above all: reaching a point where what used to work no longer works, where you make the same efforts for the opposite result. The fatigue that does not yield to a good night's sleep. And joint pain, that morning stiffness nobody had told me could have anything to do with hormones.

What I found when I searched was either forums, or sites selling something, or studies in English that I was not equipped to read. Almost nothing in French that simply said: here is what the research has established, here is what it has not established, and here is where it comes from.

This is that site. I am building it first for the woman I was three years ago, searching without knowing what to search for. My experience points me to the topics to cover and the questions to ask: it never serves as the basis for a claim. What is written here comes from the studies cited at the bottom of each article, not from what I have lived. And what I live does not predict what you will live: your perimenopause resembles no one else's but your own.

VivanaFem's work is documentary and educational: we make existing research accessible, we do not produce personalized medical advice. Our complete editorial method describes how sources are chosen, verified and updated.

Spotted an error?

We would rather correct quickly and say so. An error, a figure that looks wrong to you, a study we should have cited or a source we misread: write to contact@vivanafem.com or use the contact form. We reply within 3 business days, we go back to the source, and if the error is confirmed the page is corrected and its update date changed. A correction that changes the meaning of a claim is flagged with a dated note at the end of the article. The details are in our correction policy.

Information, not medical advice

VivanaFem's content is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute medical advice and is in no way a substitute for consulting a healthcare professional. Every woman is different: for any question about your hormonal health, a treatment or a symptom, consult your doctor.

Contact us

A question, a suggestion, a study to point us to? Write to us at contact@vivanafem.com or find us on YouTube and Instagram.

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