How we work

What we publish

Plain-English pages and free guides about health questions that come up with age: digestion and skin, eyes, and joints and feet. Each page answers a question people often ask their doctor or a search engine, says where the answer came from, says what is still unknown, and ends with questions worth bringing to your next appointment.

Where the information comes from

We start from official and professional sources: the National Institutes of Health and its institutes, MedlinePlus, the CDC, the FDA, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and medical societies such as the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Each section lists its sources with a link, so you can read them yourself.

Citing a source does not mean that organization reviewed or endorses our pages. It means the statement next to it comes from that page.

What we leave out

• No miracle claims, detox plans, or promises of results.
• No diagnosis. Only a clinician who examines you can do that.
• No "before and after" pictures and no testimonials.
• No pop-ups, no autoplay, and no ads on our pages.

Who's behind this

Honor & Balance is an independent publisher of health information for adults in the United States. We are not doctors, and we are not a clinic. We do not give personal medical advice, and nothing here replaces a visit with your own doctor.

We write each page from the sources listed on it and check it against those sources before it goes up. When a source changes, we update the page and its date.

How we make money

Our pages are free and carry no ads. Some of the emails we send may include affiliate links to products made by other companies. If you buy through one, we may earn a commission. We say so right next to the link. Read our disclosure for the details.

Corrections

If you think something on a page is wrong or out of date, write to hello@honorbalance.com and tell us the page and the sentence. We check it against the sources and fix it if we got it wrong.