Elena Vance

Elena Vance writes the core menopause guides for Midlife Atlas, including the site’s main explainer on what menopause is and how it is identified.

Her nine guides cover the stages from premenopause to postmenopause, how to tell when menopause has actually started, what your age means for the picture, and how long symptoms last. She also writes the routes that are not the usual one — early menopause and surgical menopause — along with the site’s myths-and-facts guide, which checks fourteen common beliefs against the evidence, and its guide to a first menopause appointment.