Editorial Policy

Detoxible covers health topics where accuracy matters. This page says how the content is made — including the parts that are not finished yet, because a policy that describes an ambition as a practice is worse than no policy.

Sourcing

We avoid hype and state uncertainty plainly. Where the evidence is mixed, the wording says so: the fasting timer’s milestones, for example, read “may begin”, “many people report” and “effects vary by study” rather than asserting a mechanism.

All 34 of our articles carry references. Each source is listed against the specific claim it supports, so you can check the pairing rather than take a list on trust.

Nothing is cited unless somebody has opened the source and confirmed it says what the article says. That rule is not decorative: while working through these, two guessed identifiers turned out to point at unrelated papers, and a plausible-looking author list was wrong. Every citation here was read.

Where a source disagreed with what we had written, we changed the article, not the source. Several figures moved as a result — nicotine replacement therapy improves quit rates by 50-70% rather than “roughly doubling” them, and delirium tremens follows alcohol withdrawal at 3 to 8 days rather than 48 to 72 hours.

Medical review

No article on this site has been reviewed by a medical professional. The content is written and edited in-house.

Where a topic can be dangerous — alcohol and other substance withdrawal in particular — the article carries a crisis and treatment helpline block and says plainly that stopping some substances suddenly can be dangerous. That is a safety measure, not a review.

If an article is ever medically reviewed, the reviewer and the date will be shown on it. Nothing shows one today.

Authors

Every article carries a named author with a bio.

Corrections and updates

We date-stamp updates and correct errors. Spotted a mistake? Email corrections@detoxible.com.

Independence

Affiliate and commercial relationships do not dictate our conclusions. See the Affiliate Disclosure for how the site earns.