Editorial Standards ✍️

Our sourcing hierarchy 📚

Not all evidence is equal, and a site that cites a press release next to a meta-analysis is telling you nothing. We work down this order: 🤾

1. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses — the Cochrane Library first.
2. Government health agencies — NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, NCCIH, FDA, CDC, NHLBI, NIDDK, MedlinePlus.
3. Peer-reviewed primary research — indexed on PubMed, with study design and size noted.
4. Manufacturer label data — used only for factual product details like doses, capsule count and price, never for efficacy.

Sources we do not use: vendor press releases as evidence, other affiliate sites, AI-generated content farms, social media claims, and any study we cannot locate. 🚫

Claims we will not publish 🚧

FTC health-products compliance guidance is our floor, not our ceiling. We refuse:

• Any statement that a supplement diagnoses, treats, cures or prevents a disease.
• Specific weight-loss numbers or timelines attributed to a product.
• “Clinically proven” for a finished formula with no trial of its own.
• “FDA approved” for any dietary supplement — none are.
• Fabricated testimonials, ratings, review counts or “verified” badges.
• Fake urgency: countdown timers, invented stock counters, expiring-discount theatre.
• Before-and-after imagery implying a typical result.

How we describe doses ⚖️

Where a product's dose is well below what the research used, we say so on the product page itself, not in small print. ExiTide™'s berberine, curcumin, resveratrol and glucomannan amounts are all flagged this way on the ingredients page. A page that praises every ingredient equally is an advert, not a review. 🔍

Affiliate independence 💵

We earn commission on sales made through our links — disclosed in the footer of every page and on our about and disclaimer pages. The vendor has no editorial control here: no right of review, no approval over wording, no ability to remove a criticism. If that changed, this paragraph would change with it. 🤝

Review cycle 🔄

Product pages are reviewed at least every 90 days, and immediately if the formula, price or guarantee changes. Each page carries its own “last reviewed” date at the top — that date means a human re-read it, not that a script touched the file. 📅

Corrections ✏️

We get things wrong sometimes. When you tell us:

1. We check the claim against primary sources within two business days.
2. Factual errors are corrected immediately.
3. Material corrections are noted and dated at the top of the page — we do not quietly edit history.
4. If we cannot verify a claim either way, we remove it rather than hedge it.

Spotted something? Tell us. 📧

What this site is not ⚠️

Not medical advice, not a diagnosis, not a substitute for a conversation with a qualified clinician who knows your history and your medications. If you are managing a condition or taking prescription medicine, that conversation comes first. 👩‍⚕️