Policy
Editorial and Medical Review Policy
This page explains how the content on testosteroneboost.net is researched, written, checked and corrected.
Who writes it
Articles are written under the byline of Xenophon Giannis, the site’s founder. He is not a physician. We use research and writing software to help gather sources and draft articles, and every published article is checked against its sources before it goes live. The author is responsible for everything published under his name.
The Log is different: it is the author’s first-person account of his own testing and decisions. Every detail in a Log entry describes something that actually happened. We never write first-person experience that didn’t happen.
Where the facts come from
Every health claim on the site traces to a primary source, listed at the bottom of the page:
- Peer-reviewed clinical trials and systematic reviews (PubMed and PubMed Central)
- Clinical practice guidelines, including the American Urological Association and the Endocrine Society guidelines on testosterone deficiency
- FDA drug labels (DailyMed), FDA approval records and FDA compounding lists
- Trial registries (ClinicalTrials.gov)
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements fact sheets for supplement ingredients
We don’t use clinic marketing pages, supplement-company blogs or forum posts as evidence. We read forums to learn what questions people are asking, not to answer them.
When a number matters (a testosterone change in a trial, a sample size, a side-effect rate), we give the number and the study it came from. When the evidence is thin, such as small studies, short durations or animal-only data, we say that plainly.
Medical review
Pages in the Testing, Enclomiphene and SERMs, TRT and Fertility sections are reviewed by a licensed clinician (urologist or endocrinologist). The reviewer checks the page for medical accuracy against the cited sources. Each reviewed page shows the reviewer’s name, credentials and the review date.
A page that hasn’t been reviewed yet says “Not yet medically reviewed.” We never list a reviewer who hasn’t reviewed the page.
Medical review checks accuracy. It doesn’t turn a page into personal medical advice, and it doesn’t mean the reviewer endorses any product or provider mentioned.
What we won’t publish
- Dosing protocols for prescription drugs
- Links to gray-market sellers of prescription drugs or “research use” peptides
- Before-and-after claims that don’t come from a cited study or from the author’s own documented experience
- Reviews of providers the author hasn’t personally used
Independence
Affiliate relationships never decide what we write or recommend. Partners don’t see reviews before publication and can’t pay for placement. The full rules are on our How We Make Money page.
Updates and corrections
Every page shows the date it was last updated. We re-check pages when new major research or regulatory action appears, and on a regular schedule for pages about drugs whose regulatory status is changing.
If you find an error, email support@testosteroneboost.net with the page and the correction. When we fix a factual error, we note the correction and its date at the bottom of the page.