When a website tells you what to think about your health, you should know who pays its bills. Here is everything we earn, what we turn down, and how to tell a paid link from an unpaid one.
The short version
What pays us today
One sponsor: Goodlabs, a discounted lab-testing service. If you sign up through one of our Goodlabs links, we may earn a referral commission at no extra cost to you.
What doesn't
No TRT provider pays us. We earn nothing when you click a "visit" link on a provider review. We run no ad network, and we don't sell supplements or other products.
About our Goodlabs sponsorship
Goodlabs is the one company with a financial reason to want you to click our links, so you should weigh what we say about it accordingly.
Where you'll see it. We mention Goodlabs on the homepage, in the directory, and in guides where bloodwork comes up. Those mentions are promotional, and they are labeled.
You don't need it. You can use any lab, or the one your doctor or insurance plan prefers. Nothing on this site depends on using Goodlabs.
It has no say over our content. Goodlabs doesn't provide TRT, isn't scored in our directory, and doesn't review or approve anything we publish.
What we won't accept
Payment for coverage. Nobody can buy a review, a score, a "Best for" label, a ranking, or a spot in the directory.
Commissions from the providers we review. A company we score can't also pay us for sending it customers.
Paid articles dressed up as editorial. If someone paid for it, it says so where you're reading it.
Automated ad networks. Those ads are chosen by an algorithm rather than a person, and on health sites they tend to promote exactly the claims we warn you about.
Commissions on supplements, peptides, or hormones. Our guides are skeptical of these products on purpose. We won't profit from selling them to you.
How we keep money away from editorial decisions
The editor decides. What we publish, and what it says, is decided by our editor alone.
No previews. No sponsor or provider gets to see or approve a page before it goes live.
Scores follow a published method. Every provider is judged by the same scoring criteria, and money isn't one of them.
Corrections are based on evidence. Anyone can send us a correction, and we verify it before changing a page. A sponsor gets no special treatment.
How to spot a paid link
Every link that can earn us money is labeled where it appears, with wording such as "Sponsored" or "our sponsor." We don't bury that disclosure in a footer. These links are also marked as sponsored in the page code, so search engines can tell them apart.
If a link has no such label, we don't earn anything when you click it. If you ever find one that seems to break this rule, please tell us and we'll fix it.
If this changes
This page describes how the site makes money today. Before we add any new source of income, we'll update this page and our funding note, and we'll label the new links where they appear.