Editorial Policy

glpfaq.com is a community forum and reference resource for people using or considering GLP-1 medications (semaglutide, tirzepatide, liraglutide, retatrutide, and related drugs sold under names including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, Saxenda). This page describes how we write the long-form articles on this site, so you can decide how much weight to give them.

What we are

A peer-support community with an editorial team that writes reference articles based on the questions our members ask most often. We are not a clinical site, a pharmacy, or a medical practice. Nobody on our editorial team is a licensed physician or nurse practitioner. We do not prescribe, diagnose, or treat.

What we publish

Our reference articles aggregate and summarize patterns from:

• Patient-reported experiences shared by our forum members, including direct quotes from members who consent to share their stories.
• Publicly available FDA-approved drug labels for GLP-1 medications and any over-the-counter products discussed.
• Peer-reviewed medical literature indexed in PubMed, where relevant.
• Clinical society guidelines from organizations like the American College of Gastroenterology, American Diabetes Association, and Endocrine Society.

When an article references an over-the-counter product's dosage, we quote the FDA label directly and link to it. We do not invent or modify dosing recommendations.

How we write

Editorial Lead: MetabolicMindset. A long-term forum member who began contributing editorial summaries after documenting their own GLP-1 journey. Day-to-day editing is shared across our small editorial team; significant articles carry an explicit byline at the article level.

1. Drafting: Our editorial team outlines an article based on common member questions, then drafts it against our cited sources.

2. Editorial review: A team editor checks every draft for factual accuracy against the cited sources, removes anything not supported by those sources, and adds safety caveats.

3. Methodology disclosure: When an article presents community-reported outcomes (e.g., "members who tried X reported Y"), we link to a methodology note explaining how we counted posts, what time range we looked at, and what we excluded.

4. Corrections: If a reader or a clinician identifies an error, we correct it and add a "Correction" note at the bottom of the article. Significant changes get a new "Last updated" date.

What we do NOT do

• We do not provide individualized medical advice. We cannot tell you what to do with your specific body and your specific prescription.
• We do not recommend starting, stopping, or changing any medication.
• We do not recommend specific brands of supplement, pharmacy, or telehealth service based on clinical efficacy. When we mention a product, it is because our community has discussed it — not because we have validated it clinically.
• We do not accept payment in exchange for editorial coverage or placement. Our Terms of Service describe how we handle paid placements.

"Medically reviewed" claims

We do not currently employ a licensed medical reviewer. Articles on this site are editorially reviewed by our team — not medically reviewed. If and when we add a licensed reviewer, articles they have signed off on will clearly display the reviewer's name, credential, state license number, and the date of review.

Do not treat editorially-reviewed articles as a substitute for advice from a licensed healthcare provider.

Conflict of interest

glpfaq.com is a business. We plan to monetize through advertising and vendor sponsorships (see our Terms of Service). To keep editorial integrity while doing this:

• Sponsored content is labeled as advertising in every location it appears.
• Our reference articles do not recommend specific sponsors based on clinical efficacy claims.
• Our editorial team does not receive bonuses or incentives tied to sponsor outcomes.
• The editorial policy you are reading is fixed; if we ever change how we operate, we will update this page with a visible "This policy changed on [date]" notice.

How to contact us

• Corrections or factual disputes: [email protected]
• Medical emergencies: do not contact us. Call your prescriber, your local emergency number, or a poison control center if relevant.

Reading us critically

If you compare any article on this site against Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, or the FDA's own patient-information pages, you should give weight to those over us on any matter of clinical fact. What we offer that they do not is pattern aggregation from real patients — what people actually experienced, what they tried, what worked for many of them and what did not. That is complementary, not a substitute.