Press release · 18 October 2026, World Menopause Day

Not everything is menopause.

A free map of midlife symptoms. Every link names its medical source. meno.scita.health

Copenhagen. On World Menopause Day, Scita Health launches a free map of 38 symptoms common in midlife and the 15 explanations medical sources name for them. The first edition is in English, and it is free. Anyone can look around. A free account opens the whole map, and it asks nothing about the reader’s health.

Tiredness, brain fog, broken sleep, low mood and aching joints are often put down to the hormones. Often that is right. The same symptoms are also typical of a thyroid problem, iron deficiency, sleep apnoea or depression. Seven of the 15 explanations can be checked with an ordinary blood test.

On this map, perimenopause is linked to 16 of the 38 symptoms. For every one of them, the sources name at least one other explanation.

How it works. A woman starts with the story of an example woman, or searches a symptom in her own words. The map shows what else it can be, how strongly each source says so, and which tests the sources name. There are seven example women. The first story, Hanne’s, is open without an account, and a free account opens the other six. Every Sunday until 29 November, one more woman’s questions are answered from the sources.

One map, four readers. The same map can be read as the woman herself, as family or a friend, as a colleague or manager, or as her doctor. Journalists are welcome to try all four before writing: make the free account, then change “Reading as” at the top of the page.

Where it comes from. Every link names its medical source, Nordic first: 91 of the 140 links rest on Nordic sources, most on the Danish handbooks for doctors and patients on sundhed.dk, and the rest on international medical references, guidance and research. Two independent AI auditors have checked the links against their sources. The map is education, not a diagnosis. Its texts, in all four views, are being clinically reviewed by Dr Jonas Richthoff, senior physician and Scita’s clinical lead. The review is not yet complete. The method, the audits and the corrections are on the site under “What is this?”.

“When something feels off after forty, we hear it is probably the hormones. Often it is. Sometimes it is a thyroid or low iron, one blood test away. The map shows what else it can be, with the source on every link, so she walks into the doctor’s office with better questions. No woman should suffer from what can be prevented.”

What comes next. The map is Scita’s free first layer, and it will stay free. Scita itself is in pilot development. It is a personal service, designed to read a woman’s symptoms, history, lifestyle and measurements together, across multiple body systems, and to show where her pattern points and what is worth checking first. It is designed to prepare a summary she can hand to her doctor, and to guide her day by day. Decision support, never a diagnosis.

Links

• The map: meno.scita.health
• Sources: meno.scita.health/sources
• Method and corrections: meno.scita.health/about
• Press image: meno.scita.health/og.png
• Press: hello@scita.health

About Scita Health

A self-funded health company in Copenhagen, founded by Julia Persson and Lars-Olov Persson. Julia Persson is also the founding architect of the Nordic Charter for Women’s Health 2040, whose method was published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health in 2026. Interviews in English or Swedish.

Notes for editors

38 symptoms, 15 explanations, 140 links, 7 example women. 32 named sources: 12 are handbooks, guidelines, professional references and a university research summary, and 20 are journals, behind 21 of the links. The sources, Nordic first: Lægehåndbogen and Patienthåndbogen on sundhed.dk, KiSO at the University of Copenhagen, and Finnish and Swedish clinical guidance, then international medical references such as the MSD Manual and StatPearls. Where a link rests on one research article, the map says so. In September 2026 the first of the two AI auditors rebuilt the whole map blind. 29 of the 38 symptoms have more than one explanation. 7 of the 15 explanations can be checked with an ordinary blood test. The free account asks for an email address, country and preferred language, and that the reader is 18 or over. Nothing about health. The method, the two audits and the corrections are on the site under “What is this?”. The full source record is available on request.