Editorial Policy

Sourcing

Health content on this site is written against public, checkable sources. In practice that means government and public-health bodies, regulator databases, and the published literature — with a preference for systematic reviews and meta-analyses over individual studies, and a strong preference for anything over a manufacturer’s marketing material.

Sources we use regularly:

• Health Canada, including the Licensed Natural Health Products Database
• The US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
• The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• The Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) and the ARTG
• The MHRA and Food Standards Agency (United Kingdom)
• The FDA and FTC (United States), including recall and health-fraud databases
• Peer-reviewed literature indexed on PubMed, and Cochrane reviews where they exist

Where we link to a source, we link to a page that exists and that we have checked. Deep links on domains that block automated checking are avoided in favour of the site’s own search or index page, so that a link never quietly rots into a 404.

How we describe evidence

Precision about evidence quality is the point of the exercise, so we distinguish between:

The last row matters most. A guide that only reports favourable findings is advertising, whatever it calls itself.

Wording rules for supplement content

Dietary supplements are regulated as foods, not medicines, in every market this site covers. Our wording reflects that without exception.

We do not write that any supplement treats, cures, prevents, reverses or manages a disease; that it is an alternative to prescribed medication; that results are guaranteed; or that any product produces a specific outcome in a specific timeframe.

We do write that a product is a dietary supplement, what its ingredients are, what has been studied about them, and what the limits of that evidence are.

Where a topic carries higher stakes — blood sugar, blood pressure, anything neurological — the safety section comes before the interest, not after it. Our soursop guide is written that way deliberately.

What we will not publish

• Invented people. No fictional doctors, no purchased stock portraits presented as medical reviewers, no borrowed credentials.
• Invented numbers. No customer counts, satisfaction percentages or “clinically proven” figures without a source. Product scores on this site are our own editorial ratings, labelled as such, with the criteria shown on the same /5 scale.
• Fake verification badges. Reader feedback published on a product page appears as reader feedback — no “Verified Purchase” or “Verified Customer” badge we have no way to confirm. Rating markup only ever describes the reviews actually printed on that page.
• Manufactured urgency. No countdown timers, no fake stock counters, no “only 3 left”.
• Scare copy. Men’s health content leans heavily on fear. We describe symptoms that warrant a doctor plainly, once, and move on.

Affiliate links

Some product-guide links go to third-party order pages and may earn us a commission. Our handling:

• Every such link carries rel="sponsored nofollow" and opens in a new tab.
• Disclosure appears in plain text immediately next to the button, not only in the footer.
• We name the destination in the disclosure rather than printing a bare domain on the button itself.
• Ingredient guides contain no affiliate links and are written independently of any product.
• Commission arrangements never determine what a guide says. The clearest test of that is whether we are willing to publish unfavourable evidence about an ingredient in a product we link to. We are, and we do.

Dates and freshness

Publication and modification dates are recorded in each page’s structured data rather than displayed as visible text. Regulation and research change; where a page describes a rule that has a date attached — the UK import changes of 2021, Canada’s 2023 alcohol guidance — we name that date in the text so you can tell whether it is current.

Corrections

Errors get fixed. Email hello@mancodecanada.com with the page URL and the problem. Factual corrections are made without argument; where a correction changes the substance of a guide, we update the page and its modification date.