Editorial policy
How pages are researched, checked and kept independent.
Independence
We sell nothing, run no ads and take no affiliate commissions or sponsorships. No company sees a page before it is published. If that ever changes, this page and every affected page will say so first.
How a page is made
- A written research brief sets the questions every page must answer and the sources to check: PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA and other regulators, the anti-doping list, and independent lab testers.
- Sources are opened and saved before they are cited. A claim we could not open a source for is left out.
- The page is drafted in plain English. Medical terms are explained the first time they appear.
- Automated checks confirm that every citation points to a listed source, that dates are real and not in the future, that dose information stays in its three layers, and that every link and anchor on the site works.
Use of AI
We use AI tools (Anthropic's Claude) to search, read and summarize sources and to draft pages under the brief above. AI can misread a paper or invent a detail, which is why every factual sentence must link to a source a reader can open, and why automated checks reject pages whose citations do not resolve. We do not publish AI-written answers that have no source. No page has yet been reviewed by a licensed clinician; when one is, the page will name the reviewer.
What we will not publish
- Dose calculators, mixing (reconstitution) or injection instructions.
- Advice on where or how to buy, or links to sellers.
- Stacks or protocols presented as recommendations.
- Testimonials, or claims that a product cures or treats anything without a source.
- The names of patients, of athletes in anti-doping cases or of people charged with crimes, even when a source gives them. We describe them by role, such as "a US triathlete", and where a source's title includes such a name, our source list shows the title without it.
Updates
We re-check a page when a regulator, trial registry or lab tester publishes something new about its compound, and record every change in the change log. Errors are corrected in place and logged, with the date.