Editorial policy
This page explains how SageWiz writes and checks the health articles on its blog, which sources we trust, and what we will not do. We also say plainly what we cannot offer today.
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Who writes our articles
Articles are published under the byline SageWiz Editorial. That byline is the organisation, SageWiz LLC, not one person. Drafts are written with the help of AI tools, then checked in a separate review step against the sources and against our written safety rules. An article that does not pass is not published.
Not reviewed by a clinician today
No doctor, nurse or other licensed clinician reviews SageWiz articles today, and we do not say or imply that they do. Our articles are general education, not medical advice. If we later engage a licensed reviewer who agrees to be named, the articles they review will say who reviewed them, their real credentials and the review date. Until then, trust has to come from what you can check yourself: the sources, the dates and this policy.
Sourcing standards
We check every health claim against a cited source. We rank sources roughly like this:
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, such as Cochrane reviews.
- Peer-reviewed clinical trials and review articles in established journals, found through PubMed.
- Public health agencies and major medical institutions: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Library of Medicine (NLM), including MedlinePlus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UK National Health Service (NHS), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
We do not use 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. Each article lists its sources at the end.
How we word health claims
We write “may”, “can” and “is associated with” when the evidence supports no more than that. We do not write that something cures, fixes, detoxes or is guaranteed. We do not diagnose, we do not suggest doses or supplement stacks, and we do not tell anyone to start or stop a medicine.
Many people search for the “root causes” of a symptom or ask about “functional medicine”. We cover those questions as education: what research says can contribute to a symptom, how strong that evidence is, and how practitioners describe their own approach, always with sources. An article cannot tell you what is behind your own symptoms. Only a clinician who knows you can.
Some topics need extra care and sign-off from SageWiz before publishing, including prescription drugs, pregnancy, children, eating disorders, self-harm, cancer and urgent symptoms.
Dates and update cadence
Every article shows when it was published and, if it has changed since, when it was last updated. We update an article when new evidence or new official guidance changes what it says, and we aim to re-check articles against their sources from time to time. An article that is out of date and cannot be fixed is taken down.
Corrections
If you think something is wrong, out of date or unclear, email support@sagewiz.org with the link to the page and what you noticed. Put “Correction” in the subject line. We check the claim against the sources and fix the article if needed. When a correction changes the meaning, we update the date.
Images and AI
Cover images are generated scenes of everyday life. They do not show real patients, and there are no testimonials or patient stories on SageWiz.