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Read slowly. We named the sources on purpose.

Internal essays first. Then the public documents this atlas is honest about. “Studies show” without a name is not in the house style.

Essays in this academy

Orient

Understand

WHO, STRAW+10, types.

Read → Literacy

How to read this atlas

Labels and red flags.

Worlds hub

Seven deep dives + empty chairs.

Eight dimensions

Heat through belonging.

Food as culture

Tables, pots, protein — jars kept separate.

Surgical, medical, premature

When STRAW’s calendar does not apply.

Read → Safety

When to leave the atlas

Red flags. Appointments. Not vibes.

Read → Empty chair

Pacific

Named gap, not invented paragraph.

Read → West Asia

Unani & gaps

A literate tradition plus empty chairs.

Straight answers

Start, privacy, no checkout.

Browse by topic

Filter the atlas without a search box fight.

Open → Family

Adult children & carers

Fan, not project manager.

Read → Practice

For practitioners

Map on the table. Not a protocol.

Read → Material

Housing, roster, money

Not a mindset lecture.

Named further reading (external)

Source	Why we point to it
WHO, Menopause fact sheet (16 Oct 2024)	Continuum, definitions, social framing, global gaps.
Harlow et al., STRAW+10 (2012)	Research staging. Not a home test.
NCCIH, Menopausal Symptoms: In Depth	Cautious labels on soy, herbs, yoga, acupuncture, hypnosis.
UCLA Health, Integrative menopause + East–West Medicine	How a clinic combines yoga, TCM counselling, and blunt supplement warnings.
The Menopause Society (NAMS)	Professional education; nonhormone positions (CBT, hypnosis).
Johnson et al., CAM for menopause, 2019	Broad review of mind–body, products, whole systems.
Rasweswe et al.; Aphane et al. on pitsa	Indigenous African knowledge without a herb shopping list.
Ushiroyama (2013); Takamatsu (2020)	Kampo in peri-menopausal practice — describe, don’t copy-prescribe.

Full briefing with caveats: operators see RESEARCH-WORLDWIDE.md in the kit. Public readers: the essays already carry the caution.