If a link can earn us money, we'll tell you.

Footnote Health may use affiliate links, including for some supplements and health products. A commission never determines what we cover, what we recommend, or what we conclude.

How it works

• Some outbound links to products earn us a commission if you buy something. Not all of them do, and we do not assume you can tell which is which, so we say so next to the link.
• Using an affiliate link generally does not add a separate charge from Footnote Health. Pricing and terms are set by the seller.
• Whether a program exists, and what it pays, has no bearing on whether a product appears here.
• Disclosure sits next to the recommendation, not only on this page. You should never have to go looking for it.

What a commission cannot buy

It cannot buy coverage of a topic, a conclusion, a ranking, or silence about a drawback. If the evidence says a product is unnecessary, weakly supported, or wrong for the purpose an article is about, the article says so. Sometimes the honest recommendation is not to buy anything at all, and we would rather publish that than a link.

No advertiser, seller or affiliate partner sees an article before it is published, and none of them has any say in what it concludes. We do not accept payment to cover a topic or to reach a conclusion. Sponsored content, if we ever run any, will be labelled at the top in the same size type as everything else.

Three separate questions

We keep these apart, because collapsing them is how most supplement writing goes wrong.

1. Does the ingredient or intervention have evidence for this use?
2. Is the dose, form and formulation appropriate?
3. Is this particular product a reasonable way to get it?

Good evidence for an ingredient is not evidence for a brand. A product can only be recommended once all three questions have sensible answers, and where it matters we say what we looked at: dose, ingredient form, label transparency, third-party testing, proprietary blends, interactions, and cost against the alternatives.

What we have not done

We do not claim to have tested products we have not tested. If a recommendation rests on formulation and published evidence rather than hands-on use, that is what it says. We do not invent certifications, sourcing claims or quality checks.

Why any of this matters

A publication that earns money when readers buy things has an interest in readers buying things. That interest does not have to be conscious to bend what gets covered and how confidently. Naming it, keeping it out of the editorial decision, and disclosing it every time is how we intend to stay useful.

Regulatory note

Disclosures here are intended to meet the US Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides, which require material connections to be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, close to the claim. Affiliate relationships change over time; this page describes the policy rather than a fixed list of partners.

Questions

If a disclosure looks missing or unclear, tell us athello@footnotehealth.com. We would rather over-disclose.