Editorial Standards

We want you to be able to trace every claim on Natural Medicine Insights back to a real, authoritative source. Here’s how the content is researched, written and checked.

Sourcing

Articles and glossary entries are written against authoritative primary sources — the TGA and the Poisons Standard, peer-reviewed literature indexed on PubMed/NCBI, the World Health Organization, and Australian and international legislation — rather than secondary press coverage or forums. Where a claim is contested or evidence is preliminary, we say so rather than rounding it up to certainty.

Contributors

Our writers work in adjacent, non-clinical fields — regulatory research, science writing, pharmacology, and health-reference librarianship — and each contributor bio on their author page states their actual background honestly. None of our writers present themselves as a treating clinician, and nothing here substitutes for one — see our about page for the full editorial position.

No therapeutic claims

We describe mechanisms, history, evidence and regulation — never that a substance treats, cures or prevents a condition, and never how to source, dose or self-administer anything. Every piece goes through an automated compliance check for therapeutic-claim and prohibited language before publication, on top of editorial review.

Use of AI

We use AI tools to help draft and structure content, in the same way most modern publications use research and editing tools. Every piece is checked against its cited sources and reviewed against our compliance standards before it is published. We do not publish unreviewed AI output.

Corrections

If you spot a factual error, an outdated citation, or a claim that overstates the evidence, let us know via our contact form. We correct promptly, and for material changes we note the correction on the affected page.

No sponsored content

We don’t accept payment to feature a brand, product or substance, and no commercial partner has input into our content — see our disclosure page for how the site is funded.

Last updated: 27 July 2026