Evidence & health-content standards
Medical Review & Evidence Policy
The promise
We publish health information, not medical advice. We cite authoritative sources, label every claim’s evidence tier, never invent medical reviewers or endorsements, and never let ingredient research masquerade as finished-product proof.
No Invented Authority
Many sites in this category attach fictional physicians to their pages. We don’t. Content is attributed to the Joint Genesis Reviews Editorial Team, our standards are public (editorial policy), and where a medical judgment is required — interactions, pregnancy, diagnosed disease, red-flag symptoms — we route readers to qualified professionals who know their chart.
The Three Tiers We Cite Under
- Product-label facts — what the bottle says. Verifiable by any reader with the label.
- Vendor-reported claims — what the manufacturer’s current pages say. Treated as changeable; checkout governs.
- Independent scientific evidence — NIH/FDA context and peer-reviewed trials, cited by PubMed ID where possible (e.g., PMID 26818459 on oral hyaluronan; 11710709 on ginger; 18570266 on pine bark extract; 32549135 on Boswellia).
What We Never Claim
- That Joint Genesis treats, cures or prevents any disease — it cannot, and saying otherwise would be false and unlawful framing.
- That ingredient trials prove the finished capsule works — they don’t; no finished-product trial exists in the public record.
- FDA approval — supplements do not receive FDA approval as drugs do; “FDA-registered facility” is a facility statement, and we say so wherever it appears.
- Fabricated safety or efficacy numbers, star ratings, or testimonial narratives.
Harm-Reduction Defaults
Every safety-adjacent page includes: who should skip or pause the product (pregnancy, nursing, pre-surgery, minors, diagnosed inflammatory disease), the medication-interaction conversations worth having (anticoagulants and piperine specifically), and stop-using-and-call-a-professional signals. Our when-to-see-a-doctor article is the canonical red-flag reference we link from health content.
How Health Content Stays Current
Evidence pages list their last-updated date and are revisited when notable research publishes or readers flag discrepancies. When new data materially changes a summary, we update the text and the date, per the corrections process in the editorial policy.