Editorial Standards
How We Work
The rules we hold ourselves to. Read them, then hold us to them.
Trust is not a badge you print. It is a set of habits you keep when nobody is watching. Here are ours, in plain language.
How we research
We write plain-language education. The goal is to help you understand what is happening in your body and your life well enough to have a real conversation with a real clinician. The factual scaffolding is grounded in reputable public health information. The emotional and experiential parts, the parts about what it actually feels like, are editorial. We keep the line between those two clear.
Sourcing
When we state a claim of medical fact, we ground it in reputable public sources: NIH and MedlinePlus, the CDC, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health, the Sleep Foundation, and peer-reviewed journals indexed on PubMed. Narrative and emotional passages are not dressed up as citations. A feeling is a feeling. A fact is a fact. We do not blur them.
Corrections
We get things wrong sometimes, and when we do we fix them. Articles carry an “Updated” date when they have been meaningfully revised, so you can see the work has changed. Spot an error? Report it by email and we will look. Details are on the contact page.
Medical content
Everything here is educational, never a diagnosis and never a prescription. A standing disclaimer runs on every health-adjacent article. Each of those articles also has a medical-review slot. That slot names a real reviewing clinician only when one has actually reviewed the piece. It is never populated with a fabricated name, a fake credential, or a borrowed reputation. Empty means empty.
No content on this site sells or recommends a specific medical treatment. Your baseline and a conversation with a qualified clinician come first, every time.
About the bylines
Our bylines are fictional editorial pen names, written by the team. No byline is a real person, a medical credential, a clinical affiliation, an award, or a press mention. We disclose this plainly because pretending otherwise would break the one rule that matters most here: tell the truth.
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