Editorial Standards
Health writing carries an obligation to be right. This page sets out how we try to meet it, and where the limits are, so you can judge our articles rather than take them on faith.
We cite primary sources, not summaries
Clinical claims in our articles are tied to the source that actually establishes them — FDA prescribing information, clinical-society guidance, peer-reviewed literature, or the federal regulation itself. Not a news article about a study, and not another company’s blog post.
Every source we list carries a direct link and a quoted passage from that source. You should never have to take our word for what a document says. Click it and read the sentence.
Automated checks run before anything publishes
Editorial care is easy to claim and easy to let slip. So the parts that can be mechanised are:
- Every inline citation must resolve. A numbered marker in the text has to point at a real entry in the source list, and the link on the marker has to match the link on the entry. If a marker points at nothing, the site does not build.
- A quote has to be a real quote. Page titles, navigation text and cookie banners scraped from a source page are rejected. A quote has to look like a sentence from the document.
- Quotes are checked against the source itself. We fetch the cited page — including PDFs and pages that need a full browser — and confirm the quoted wording genuinely appears in it. A quote that cannot be found in its source is treated as a defect and fixed or removed.
- Marketing language is held separately from medical language. A separate automated check blocks a defined set of claims from ever reaching a published page, including any description of a compounded medication as equivalent to, a generic version of, or the same as an FDA-approved drug.
What we will not do
- We do not describe compounded medications as the same as FDA-approved products. They are a distinct regulatory category, they are not FDA-approved, and we say so every time.
- We do not publish outcome claims we cannot source. If the evidence is thin, the article says the evidence is thin.
- We do not quote an absence. Where we say something is not on a list or not approved, we show you the list and state plainly that the conclusion is ours.
- We do not soften a finding to keep a page. When a regulator has told us something on this site was wrong, we have removed it rather than reworded it.
The limits, stated plainly
This is not medical advice, and our articles are not medically reviewed. Nothing here is written by, or reviewed by, a clinician acting as your provider. Our writing is checked for sourcing and accuracy; it cannot account for your history, your medications, or your circumstances. Only a licensed provider who has reviewed your case can do that.
Automated checks prove that what we published is supported by the source we cited. They cannot prove that an article says everything a reader might need to know. That judgment is human, we know it is imperfect, and it is the reason we keep re-reading our own pages.
When we get it wrong
We would rather correct a page than defend it. If you find a claim on this site that its source does not support, or a statement that is out of date, tell us and we will check it against the primary source and fix or remove it.
Email patientsupport@gentlemenshealthcollective.com.
Last reviewed: 23 August 2026.