Editorial policy

Where our facts come from

Reviews come from the company. A provider review is built from what the company publishes on its own website: its pricing pages, FAQ, terms of service and refund policy. We don't build reviews from ads, temporary promotions, press coverage or other review sites, and we don't add medical studies to a review.

Guides come from research and drug labels. Our research guides tie each medical claim to peer-reviewed research or official FDA labeling, listed at the foot of the guide. We say when evidence comes from studies of women specifically and when it is borrowed from broader trials.

How we record a price

We print the price the company publishes, with its own wording. “Starting at $79” stays “starting at”. A charge every four weeks is shown as every four weeks, since that is 13 charges a year, not 12. A per-month figure that only applies on a prepaid plan is labeled with the plan length. When a membership or consultation fee sits on top of the drug price, we say so. When two of a company's own pages give different prices, the review names both and tells you to confirm at checkout. When a company shows no price until after its medical intake, the review says exactly that.

What triggers an update

We update a review when the company changes its prices, plans or terms, when a reader reports something we got wrong, when an FDA warning letter comes to light, and when we re-read a company's site on our own schedule, starting with the reviews readers open most. Each review shows the month it was last updated, once, under its headline. We move that date only when we have re-read the company's site or materially changed the page, never for a design change or a typo fix.

FDA warning letters

We check FDA's warning-letter database by company and brand name, not only by website. When a company has a letter, its own review says so, gives the month it was issued, and links FDA's database so you can read the letter yourself. A letter belongs to the company it was sent to, so it never appears on a sister brand's review. On top of that disclosure, the company's score loses 8 points on “Clinical oversight & labs”, the same deduction for every company with a letter, as our methodology explains. A letter does not remove a company from this site.

How partners are treated

We earn a commission when you start treatment through some links on this site, at no extra cost to you. CoreAge Rx is a featured partner, and providers we work with may appear first. Partners get a boost in our list order, so a partner can sit above a program that scores higher. A commission doesn't change a provider's score or what its review says, and partners are researched and scored on the same rules as everyone else. The full details are in our affiliate disclosure.

How every page is checked

Prices and program details come from the company's own pages, medical claims in guides link to the research or label behind them, and automated checks run before every update to catch broken links, missing disclosures, stale dates and spelling slips. Coverage is attributed to our publishing desk, described on the Luna Editorial Team page.

Corrections

When something we published is wrong or out of date, we fix the page and log the change on our corrections page, with the month it was made. To report an error, email care@lunametabolic.com.

Not medical advice

Educational content, not medical advice. Talk to a licensed clinician before starting any treatment. Our medical disclaimer has the details. Who applies these rules, and why this site exists, is on our about page. What we do with the data you leave behind is in our privacy notice, and the conditions you use the site under are in our terms of use.