Who made this
Guía is a free app for women whose bodies are changing in midlife. It asks three questions, gives you a plan you can actually follow, and sells you nothing.
Where it came from
I am Sandra Sertel. When I first started having perimenopause symptoms, I did not know what it was, and when I asked my doctor I was dismissed. So I went looking for answers on my own. There was so much information, and all of it was scattered and overwhelming.
So I built Guía. Bilingual, private, and useful — a place to track what is happening and see the pattern, instead of guessing.
I am not a doctor
I have no medical training and Guía does not diagnose anything. What it does is put what is known about these symptoms in one place, say plainly how solid that evidence is, and help you walk into an appointment with something written down instead of a memory. Nothing here replaces the person who can examine you.
What "private" means here
Guía does not store your IP address, and the notes you write for your doctor never leave your device. There are no ads, nothing is sold, and your symptoms are not a product anyone is buying. Guía does use tools to count visits and catch errors, and those are configured not to collect your location.
How this pays for itself
It does not, yet. Guía is free, there is no card, no trial, and no paid tier waiting behind a wall. I do not sell supplements, I take no commission on anything I suggest, and there are no affiliate links anywhere in the library. That is deliberate: almost every other place you can read about this is also selling you something, and I wanted the recommendation and the checkout to never be the same conversation. If that ever changes, it will say so here first.
Why it works the way it does
Guía asks for one thing a day, not fifteen. Every suggestion comes attached to something you already do, because a reminder at nine o’clock arrives while you are in the middle of something else. And every one of them has a smaller version for the days you cannot — which counts, and is recorded as counting. There are no streaks, no daily goals, and no notifications guilting you back. The bad days here are not a lapse; they are the reason you came.
In two languages, properly
Everything exists in Spanish and English — not translated after the fact, but written in both, with the doses and the drug names identical in each. If you think in Spanish, you should not have to read about your own body in your second language.
If something is wrong
If anything here is out of date, unclear, or simply wrong, I want to know — write to hello@guia.you and it comes to me, not to a support queue. Corrections are the most useful thing you can send.
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