Selene is written by a small team of women who know these conditions up close — through living with them, and through loving people who do — and who got tired of watching anyone be dismissed. We built the guide we wish had existed.
PMOS (PCOS) and endometriosis each affect roughly one in ten women — and both routinely take years to diagnose. The research is thin, the funding is thinner, and far too many of us spend our twenties being told that our pain is normal, our weight is our own fault, and our symptoms are something to push through.
When GLP-1 medications arrived, the same old gap showed up in a new place. Suddenly there were a hundred telehealth providers happy to mail you a vial — but very few who understood PMOS (PCOS) as the insulin-driven condition it is, or who would take a full hormonal history before writing a prescription. The marketing was loud. The actual care was hard to find.
So we built the thing we kept wishing existed: an honest, women-first guide to GLP-1 care — one that rates providers on whether they actually understand your body, lists them alphabetically, and lets no one pay to rank higher. Here's exactly how we rate.
We met the way a lot of women do these days — in an online support group, awake at odd hours, comparing notes on doctors who didn't listen. Some of us had been chasing an endometriosis diagnosis for over a decade; others had been told to "just lose weight" since they were nineteen.
That thread became a group chat. The group chat became a shared spreadsheet of providers — who titrated to your response, who actually understood hormones, who treated you like a person instead of a number on a chart. Friends kept asking us to send them "the list." Eventually the list outgrew the spreadsheet, and we gave it a name.
We called it Selene, after the moon goddess — because the cycle we'd all spent years fighting to understand felt like the right place to begin.
Selene is written by a small team of women who've spent years close to PMOS (PCOS) and endometriosis — living with them, and standing beside the people who do — and who are tired of seeing anyone dismissed. We publish under the Selene name rather than our own, because this is about the care, not about us.
What we do is simple, and we do it in the open: we read the research, pressure-test the rubric, and write it all down as plainly as we can. We don't provide medical care. We don't prescribe, sell, or dispense anything. And we don't take a cent from the providers we rate — no one can pay to rank higher, or to soften an honest score. That's the whole methodology.
Everything here is general information shaped by what we've learned — not medical advice, and never a substitute for a clinician who knows your history. It's the guide we each wish someone had handed us, years earlier.