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Editorial policy

This is a health site that makes money from affiliate links. Those two facts are in tension, and the only honest response is to be specific about how we handle it. This page is that specificity.

How we source claims

Every factual claim about a compound is traced to a primary source - a peer-reviewed paper, a regulatory document, or a manufacturer's own label - and linked so you can check it yourself. If we can't find a primary source for something, we don't print it. Not as a hedge, not as “some experts say”. We leave it out.

Sources are verified against the claim they support, not just cited. A real paper attached to a claim it doesn't actually make is worse than no citation at all, because it looks rigorous. When we found our own drafts overstating a source, we corrected the claim rather than the source.

How we describe evidence

We never say a peptide treats, cures, prevents or guarantees anything in our own voice. We report what research found and attribute it - “a 2019 randomised trial reported”, “the manufacturer states”, “researchers propose”. The distinction is not legal throat-clearing. It is the difference between telling you what is known and telling you what to do.

Our evidence meters are defined by study design in humans, not by enthusiasm. “Animal only” is a distinct category from “weak” - it means there is no human evidence at all, which is a different thing from evidence that something doesn't work. A great deal of what is sold as a peptide sits in that category, and saying so is the most useful thing we can do.

Who writes and who reviews

Every article carries a named author and a review badge with a date. We use the phrase “medically reviewed by” only when the reviewer holds an actual clinical credential - a licence to practise, not a job title. Where a reviewer is not a clinician, the badge says “reviewed by” and names their role instead. We would rather carry a weaker-sounding badge than imply a qualification nobody holds.

How we make money

Affiliate commissions on products, and referral fees from telehealth providers. We do not sell peptides, supplements, or anything else. We have no inventory and no house brand, which means we have no product to defend.

Concretely, the rules we hold ourselves to:

  • Disclosure appears above the offer, before you decide - not in a footer you reach afterwards.
  • Commercial links carry rel="sponsored nofollow". We do not pass authority to people who pay us.
  • Commission rates never determine ranking, and never touch the evidence section. The evidence section is written before anyone looks at a commission rate.
  • We link no vendor for a prescription medicine. For those, we point to licensed clinicians who can assess whether it is appropriate for you - that is a referral, not a recommendation that you take it.
  • If the honest answer is “the evidence doesn't support paying for this”, that is what the page says, even on a page with affiliate links on it.

How partners work

For some supplements and skincare products, and for licensed telehealth, we may show an “Interested in…?” module that links to an intermediate partners page before any outbound handoff. We do not invent a marketplace when nobody clears the bar - empty is better than filler. Research compounds do not get “therapy clinic” partner handoffs.

Listed partners carry a published quality score (minimum 70 to appear as active). Criteria cover transparency, claims discipline, quality signals, licensure for telehealth, disclosure readiness, and reporting. Scores are editorial judgements, not lab certificates - they exist so “quality” is not a vague adjective. Full criteria and current listings live on the partners page.

Mailing list and interest forms

Guide forms can collect name, email, optional phone, and topic interests so we can follow up with guide updates or selected partner intros. Footer and light forms may collect email only. We do not ask for symptoms, medical history, or dosing questions. We do not sell your contact details. Optional SMS/call consent is separate from email. You can unsubscribe from list mail any time. Submitting interest is not a medical booking and not a request for a prescription.

What we won't do

  • Invent a citation, a statistic, a study, or a credential.
  • Publish a product recommendation we haven't got a real basis for.
  • Use before-and-after imagery, or photos implying a result.
  • Tell you a dose to take. Our calculator does arithmetic on numbers you supply; it has no opinion about whether you should be using anything.
  • Pretend a research compound is a supplement. The legal categories are different and the difference matters.

Corrections

Science moves and we get things wrong. If you find an error - especially a citation that doesn't support what we've hung on it - tell us and we will fix it and date the change. Substantive corrections are noted on the page rather than quietly edited away.