About World Reviews

Why This Site Exists

Search for any supplement review and you will find fifty pages that are the sales page rewritten, with a 4.9 rating and a countdown timer. They all say the ingredients are "clinically proven." Almost none of them name the study. The ones that do frequently cite a PMID that does not say what they claim it says — and a disturbing number cite studies that do not exist at all, invented somewhere upstream and copied along by everyone downstream who never checked.

We started World Reviews because the actual work here is not hard. The trials are public. PubMed is free. Reading a study takes twenty minutes. The only reason it does not happen is that the answer is often inconvenient for the sale.

How We Review

Every review follows the same process:

• We get the real label. Every ingredient, every dose. If a product hides its amounts inside a "proprietary blend," that is itself a finding, and we say so.
• We search PubMed for each ingredient. Human randomised controlled trials where they exist. In-vitro and animal studies are noted as what they are — not evidence that something works in a man.
• We open every study we cite. We read the conclusion, the population and the dose. Titles mislead. We never cite a PMID we have not personally opened, and we verify that each one resolves.
• We compare dose to evidence. This is the step that matters most and the one nobody does. An ingredient at 1/30th of its studied dose is on the label for you to read, not for your body to use.
• We publish the flaws. Every review has a section on what we do not like. A review without one is an advertisement wearing a costume.

What We Won't Do

• Invent or copy unverified citations. If we cannot open it on PubMed, it does not go on the page — no matter how well it would support the argument.
• Say "clinically proven." Almost nothing in this category is. We say what a specific trial found, in whom, at what dose, and we let you weigh it.
• Claim a supplement treats a disease. It doesn't, and saying so would be both false and illegal.
• Use countdown timers or pressure tactics. You will not find a ticking clock or a manufactured deadline on this site. Take as long as you want to decide.
• Let a commission set a score. Our reviews regularly tell readers the cheapest option is a trap or that a product's ingredients are underdosed. That costs us money. It is the entire point.

How We Make Money

We earn a commission when a reader buys through some of our links, at no extra cost to the reader. That is stated at the bottom of every page and explained fully on our affiliate disclosure page.

We would rather tell you than have you discover it. An affiliate site that pretends to be neutral is lying about the most basic fact of its own existence. We are not neutral — we have a financial interest, and that is exactly why we publish our method, name our sources, and print the criticisms. You should not take our word for anything. You should be able to check it, and every citation on this site is a link you can click.

Our Limits

Be clear on what we are not. We are not doctors, and this site is not medical advice. We read published research and report it as accurately as we can; that is a different thing from knowing your situation. We cannot tell you whether a supplement is right for you, whether it interacts with your medication, or what your symptoms mean.

If your energy, drive or erections have changed — particularly if it happened suddenly — see a doctor before you buy anything. As we cover in our guide, erectile difficulty can be an early warning sign of cardiovascular disease. That is a checkup, not a purchase. We would rather lose a sale than have a reader treat a warning with a gummy.

Corrections

If we get something wrong — a misread study, an outdated price, a broken citation — tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Contact us here.