Transparency

Ownership and independence

Live Well News is independently operated. It is not owned by, funded by, or affiliated with any supplement company, pharmaceutical company, clinic, laboratory, or health product retailer, and it has no institutional or academic sponsor. No outside party has any right of review over what we publish.

We are not a party to any arrangement that would give anyone advance sight of an article, a veto over a conclusion, or a say in what we cover. If that ever changes, it belongs on this page before it belongs anywhere else.

How we are funded

Advertising and newsletter revenue are the intended model. As things stand:

• No advertising is currently served on the site.
• No affiliate links, and no commission. We do not earn anything if you buy a supplement, book, test or service we have written about, and we do not use affiliate networks.
• No sponsored content, ever. We do not publish paid articles, paid placements in articles, guest posts, or "partner content", labelled or otherwise.
• No paid links. We do not sell links, and we decline every request to insert one.
• Nothing has been paid for coverage. We have taken no money, product, travel or hospitality in exchange for writing about anything.

When advertising does start, it will be labelled as advertising, kept physically separate from editorial content, and sold by people with no say in what we cover. We decline advertising for misleading health products and unproven treatments; the standing rules are on the Advertise page.

How the articles are made

We use AI tools to help draft and structure articles from the underlying sources, and a person edits and fact-checks every article before it publishes. We think readers are entitled to know that plainly rather than to work it out.

What that does not mean: AI is never the reason a claim appears in an article. Every cited sentence is checked back against the text of the paper it points at, and anything that has drifted from what the source says is rewritten or cut before publication. Sources are never generated, suggested or filled in from memory - a citation exists because someone put the paper there. The full set of rules every article is held to is on our Editorial standards page, and the About page explains how a study earns an article in the first place.

Sourcing and conflicts in the research we cover

We report on other people's studies, and those studies have funders. Where a trial was paid for by a company with an interest in the result, that is part of the story and we say so. Where a finding rests on a single study, we say that too, rather than writing it as settled.

We do not have financial interests in the compounds, drugs, devices or diets we write about. Nobody on the editorial side holds a position in a company whose product they are covering.

Corrections and accountability

Substantive corrections are marked on the article and logged publicly on our Corrections page; typographical fixes are made silently. We do not quietly delete or rewrite a piece we got wrong. To report an error, email [email protected].

Every article carries a byline linking to the author page accountable for it, and the date it was last reviewed.

Your data

What we collect, and what we do with it, is set out in our Privacy policy and Cookie policy. We do not sell reader data.

What we would tell you

The point of a page like this is the list of things that would have to appear on it if they were ever true: a sponsor, an affiliate arrangement, an owner with a stake in a health company, a payment for coverage, an advertiser with a say in editorial. None of them are true today. If one becomes true, this page changes first.

Questions, or something you think we have not disclosed: [email protected]. You can also find us on Bluesky.