How SageWiz Researches and Checks Its Health Articles

Why we are sharing this

Health articles ask for your trust. You deserve to know how the facts in them were found and checked, and where their limits are. This page sets out the rules every SageWiz article has to meet.

How an article gets made

1. Choosing a topic. We look at what people are searching for and talking about, including new studies, public health announcements, and wellness trends. We pick topics that connect to root-cause, whole-person health, where good evidence exists, and where an honest explainer can help, and we skip topics we have already covered. Some topics need sign-off from SageWiz before they can be published, including anything centered on prescription drugs, pregnancy, children, eating disorders, self-harm, cancer treatment, or urgent symptoms.
2. Finding evidence. Sources are gathered and every link is opened and read to confirm it says what we claim.
3. Writing. Articles follow a written template: a plain-English answer at the top, what may be going on, the caveats, the evidence, and, where relevant, when to check in with a clinician.
4. Separate fact-check. A review step that is separate from the writing checks each claim against its cited source and checks the article against our safety rules. If an article does not pass within two rounds of fixes, it is not published.
5. Automatic checks. Automated site checks confirm each article's sources, images, and required metadata are in place, and that the site builds cleanly, before it can go live.

Cover images are photo-style scenes of everyday life. They do not show real patients.

What counts as evidence here

We rank sources roughly like this:

• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which pool many studies, such as Cochrane reviews.
• Randomized controlled trials published in established journals.
• Public health agencies and major medical institutions, such as the NIH, CDC, FDA, and WHO.

We do not cite wellness blogs, product pages, or auto-generated pages as evidence. When a finding comes from animal studies, cell studies, or small early trials, we say so. When studies disagree, we say that too. We check that cited studies have not been retracted, using tools such as the Retraction Watch database.

These are the same habits that MedlinePlus and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health recommend for judging any health information, including ours.

What we will not do

• Diagnose you, or suggest that an article can.
• Tell you to start, stop, or change a prescribed medication or treatment.
• Promise that a food, supplement, or habit will cure or fix anything.
• Use fear to keep you reading.
• Present a weak or early finding as settled.

Articles that touch on personal medical decisions include a short box on when to check in with a clinician, and every article ends with an educational disclaimer.

The limits you should know about

A careful process lowers the chance of mistakes, but no process catches everything. Our articles are general education. They cannot account for your history, your medications, or your test results, and they are not a substitute for care from someone who knows you.

Treat what you read here as a starting point for understanding and for better questions.

Corrections and updates

If you think something is wrong, out of date, or unclear, email support@sagewiz.org with the article link and what you noticed. We will check it against the sources and correct the article if needed. When we learn of better evidence, we update the affected article. The date on each article shows when it was first published.

Evidence

Bottom line

Every SageWiz article is held to written rules about evidence and safety, and every claim is checked against its source before publication. We will always show you where our evidence comes from and where it runs out. Use what you read here to understand your situation and prepare good questions, and bring the decisions to a clinician.