How we write
Most of what comes back when you search for something about your own body at one in the morning is written to sell you something, or hedged until it says nothing. This page is the method we use instead. It is short, it is checkable, and every article here was written under it.
Every claim is linked, at the claim
On anything to do with health, each factual sentence links to the page it came from, in the sentence itself rather than in a list at the bottom that nobody opens. You should be able to check any line in one click and see whether we represented it fairly.
The sources we use, in this order: NHS, CDC, ACOG, WHO, NICE, Cochrane. A study is cited from PubMed only when its abstract has actually been read. A clinic's marketing page, a supplement seller, a content farm and a forum thread are not sources, including this forum.
If it could not be checked, it is not here
Every claim comes from a page that was fetched and read while the article was being written. Not remembered, not inferred, not "everyone knows". Where something could not be verified it was cut, however confident the writer was that it was true.
A confident-sounding invented statistic is the easiest thing in the world to produce and the worst thing this site could publish, so the rule is absolute rather than a matter of judgement.
We never diagnose, prescribe, or give a dose
We will describe what the sources say a condition is, what treatment generally involves, and when they say to see someone. We will not tell you what you have, which medicine to take, or how much of it. Those are decisions about a particular person, and every route to one ends at a doctor or a pharmacist.
We say what is not known
Where the evidence is thin, we say it is thin, and where the sources disagree we show you that they disagree instead of picking the tidiest one. Where a popular remedy simply is not addressed by any of them, we write that it is not addressed, rather than asserting it does not work. The gap is information too.
One worked example
A claim copied across a lot of websites says that vaginal thrush left untreated becomes "generalized candidiasis". The CDC's own clinical overview lists what actually puts someone at risk of invasive candidiasis: prolonged intensive care stays, central venous catheters, cancer or neutropenia, stem cell transplant, abdominal surgery, very low birth weight, dialysis, injection drug use. Ordinary vaginal thrush is not on that list.
Publishing the copied version would have told a woman with a routine yeast infection that she was at risk of a life-threatening illness. Reading one page caught it. That is the whole value of the rule, and the article exists partly to say so.
Nothing here judges anybody
Everybody has the right to choose whatever they want. That applies in every direction: removed or natural, surgery or no surgery, waxed weekly or never thought about, and it applies to how a body looks. You will not find "flattering", "problem area", or the suggestion that a garment compensates for something.
The test we apply to any sentence: could a woman who does the opposite read this and feel looked down on? If yes, it gets rewritten. Somebody who arrives asking whether she is normal gets a plain answer, not reassurance that sounds like a greeting card.
Who writes this
We do not employ a doctor and we do not claim a medical reviewer. The health and body guides are written by the site's editorial side, from the sources named above. Saying otherwise would be easy and would be a lie, and a site that lies about who wrote it is not worth trusting on anything else.
Community members can publish articles too, once they have taken part in the site: five comments across five different days. Where a member wrote a piece, her name is on it. The in-house guides are published under the site itself rather than under an invented byline.
There is no advertising on this site, no affiliate link anywhere in it, and nothing here is for sale.
What this site is not
It is not a substitute for a doctor, a pharmacist or a fitter who can see you. A page that cites the NHS is still a page, and it does not know anything about your body. If something worries you, or will not settle, or is new and one-sided, that is a conversation with a clinician and not with a website.
If you think something here is wrong, every article takes comments from members, and that is the fastest way to tell us.