Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. If you buy something through one, the retailer pays me a small cut. It costs you nothing extra. You pay what you'd have paid walking in their front door.
Those commissions keep the lights on here: the research hours, the hosting bills, and the products I buy with my own money to test before I write about them.
What an affiliate link actually is
When you click a link here, a cookie tells the retailer you came from my site. Buy something, and they pay me a small percentage of it. Skip it, and that's the end of the story. Clicking never cost you a thing.
Your price is the same either way. There's no code to punch in, and there's no more expensive version of the product waiting for people who arrived through me. That cookie belongs to the retailer, not to me, and their policy is what governs it (more on cookies in the privacy policy).
What the commission never buys
It doesn't buy a recommendation. I only name a product here if I'd tell a friend to buy it. If nothing in a category clears that bar, I'll say so, and you'll leave the page having spent nothing.
It doesn't buy the shape of a page, either. I read the evidence and write the verdict before an affiliate link goes anywhere near the draft. Where the research says a product does very little, that's what you'll read, commission or no commission.
And it doesn't buy a hard sell. I'm not going to talk up a product I'm lukewarm on, or bury a cheaper option that works just as well, because one pays me and the other doesn't.
How a product earns a recommendation
The bar is whether I've used it. What I reached for after my own surgery, what actually helped, what was a waste of money, and what I'd buy a second time.
When I haven't used something myself, I'll build the comparison from the research and the specs, and I'll tell you flat out that I haven't tried it. I won't blur the two.
I hold supplements to the same evidence bar as every other claim on this site.
HRT, weight-loss medication, and anything with a prescription behind it
These carry commissions right across the industry, and some of them might here too. The rule doesn't budge. Any treatment I cover gets the whole picture:
- who it suits, and who it doesn't
- what it costs
- what it does in your body
- what the evidence shows, including where the evidence is thin
- your options if you'd rather not take it
There are sites where the "is this right for me?" article ends at that company's own checkout. I'm not building one of those. A link here never sends you somewhere the sourced answer on the page doesn't already back up.
If something recommended here lets you down
Products change. A formula gets reworked, a company gets sold, and something good this year can turn into junk by next. If something you bought on my say-so didn't hold up, tell me.
When a recommendation stops earning its place, I pull it, and I say what changed and when.
Last updated: August 21, 2026
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