How We Test

We buy what we review

Every product reviewed on this site was ordered at the listed price and paid for by us. We do not accept free samples for reviews, we do not let a seller read a page before it publishes, and we do not change a score after the fact. When we do not finish a test window we say so instead of publishing a half-test with a number on top of it.

The five criteria behind every score

Product reviews are scored on ingredient transparency, how the test window actually went, daily usability, value for money and how the seller handles refunds. Each one is a percentage, and the overall score is the plain average. Nothing is weighted up to make a product look better than the experience behind it.

We are not clinicians

Nobody here is a doctor, a dentist or a dietitian, and we do not use "medically reviewed" language anywhere on the site. What we can do is read a published study and check whether the dose in a bottle matches the dose in the paper. That is the entire basis of our claims, and every page that leans on research links to the sources it used.

Affiliate disclosure

This site is reader-supported. Some links are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate links are always marked with rel="sponsored" and open in a new tab. A product does not get a better score for having an affiliate programme, and products with no programme at all still get reviewed.

Privacy

We collect the minimum: an email address if you subscribe, and standard analytics to see which pages are read. We do not sell subscriber lists and we do not run ad networks that follow you between sites. (Placeholder text for the clone build: the final privacy page gets written with the legal review before launch.)

Contact

Story tips, corrections and review requests: desk@thehealthnewsreport.com. If we got something wrong, tell us and we will fix it at the top of the page with a dated note rather than quietly editing the paragraph.