Reliability
Our editorial process
Health content has real-world consequences. That's why every entry in our knowledge base goes through a multi-step verification process before it's published.
Research and draft
The VitMode editorial team prepares the entry based exclusively on primary sources — clinical trials, meta-analyses, systematic reviews and guidelines — not secondary blog articles.
Source verification
The editorial team checks that the content matches the sources, that the mechanisms of action are described correctly, and that the evidence-strength label is appropriate. Cited PubMed records are verified automatically against the NCBI database (identifier, title, year).
Editing and SEO
The text goes through copyediting and structural optimization (headings, table of contents, internal linking) — without changing the factual meaning.
Publication and updates
After publication, an entry is updated when significant new studies or guidelines challenge or confirm the existing conclusions. The date of the last update is shown on every entry.
How we label the strength of evidence
Strong evidence
Numerous clinical trials in humans and/or meta-analyses with consistent results.
Moderate evidence
Promising, but clinical trials limited in number or sample size.
Early-stage evidence
Mostly animal studies, in vitro research, or small pilot trials in humans.
Research hypothesis
A mechanism that's biologically plausible, but poorly or not at all studied clinically.
Found a factual error? Reach us through the comments section under the relevant entry — every report goes to the editorial team, which corrects errors.