Editorial policy
How these guides are written and kept accurate
Health information needs a higher standard than most topics. These are the rules this site follows, so readers can judge how much weight to give it. Last updated 2026-10-22.
Sources
Guides rely only on authoritative health sources: U.S. government health and regulatory agencies (MedlinePlus and other parts of the National Institutes of Health, the CDC and the FDA), the American Academy of Pediatrics' parent site HealthyChildren.org, and the NHS. Blogs, sellers, forums, news coverage and individual studies are not used as the basis for any statement.
Every factual statement in a guide should be traceable to a source listed at the end of that guide. Where the sources are silent, the guides say so rather than filling the gap. For example, no source reviewed for this site states that any exercise, stretch or supplement increases adult height, and the guides say exactly that rather than claiming more.
Some well-known health pages could not be used. A few were unavailable when checked, and some encyclopedia pages carry licence terms that rule out the way this site was drafted. These are listed in the site's research records.
Not medical advice
Every page carries a health notice. The guides are general information. They do not diagnose, do not recommend treatment, and do not give doses for any supplement or medicine. Where treatment exists, such as growth hormone medicine for children with a diagnosed condition, the guides describe it only as a decision for medical specialists.
In one line
If a public health source does not support a statement, it does not belong in a guide; and if a question is about a particular person, it belongs with their doctor.
Writing
- Plain language, with medical terms explained the first time they appear.
- Sources are paraphrased, not copied.
- Worked examples are invented to illustrate a point. They describe no real person, and the guides label them as examples.
- The guides use British spelling, while naming U.S. agencies and their documents as they are published.
Products and claims
The site names no products, brands or sellers, and recommends none. When it discusses the market for "height increase" products, it does so as a category, judged against what health and regulatory agencies say. It makes no promises about height, and if a sentence anywhere seems to, that is a mistake.
Links
In this first edition, sources are named but not linked, so that every page can be reviewed before any outbound link is added. Any links added later will go only to pages that help the reader. There are no paid or sponsored links.
Reviews and corrections
Each guide shows the date it was last reviewed against its sources. Health guidance changes, so guides will be re-checked when their sources change. A correction that changes the meaning of a guide will be noted at the end of that guide with the date. There is no contact route yet, so corrections currently come from that re-checking rather than from reader reports.
Use of AI
The guides were drafted with an AI system from the cited documents, and compared with the text of those documents on 2026-10-22. They have not yet had an independent human editorial review or a review by a medical professional. The about page describes how the site was made.