Editorial standards / Recommendations
How we pick what we recommend
Some links on this site pay us a commission when you buy. This page explains what has to be true before a product or service earns a place here, and it publishes the record so you can check our work.
01 / Research
We start from the evidence, not the offer
A recommendation begins with a question a reader actually has, such as which at-home test measures a biomarker reliably or what a GLP-1 program costs without insurance. We read the primary sources first: FDA labels and compounding guidance, guideline documents, the merchant's own published prices and terms. Every price on a review carries the date we read it, and every clinical claim carries the document that supports it.
02 / Vet
Every partner is checked before it goes live
Before a partner's link can render anywhere on the site we run a fixed check and record the date it ran:
- FDA warning letters, searched by the operating company name.
- FDA import alerts and the compounding enforcement record.
- State board or attorney-general actions where the operating entity is named.
- For sellers of compounded medicines: their own disclosure that the products are not FDA-approved. If it is missing from their site, they do not go live.
A partner without a recorded check date cannot render a link. That is enforced in the software, not by policy. Compounded-medicine sellers also carry a product notice above every button, and are never shown beside content about the compounding crackdown or regulatory enforcement.
03 / Disclose
Money never changes a verdict
Rankings, scores and pros and cons are set by the editorial team from the criteria named on each page, and a score is never published without its metric breakdown and a methodology note. Nobody who writes or reviews a page is paid on clicks or sales. Where a partner pays us, the page says so at the top and beside every button. Where a better option pays us nothing, we say that too.