How Entries Are Sourced, Updated and Corrected.

1. Sourcing

Every clinical claim links its source where the claim appears. Sources are used in this order of preference:

1. Government health agencies and regulators: the US Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and its libraries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and their equivalents abroad.
2. Clinical practice guidelines from medical societies: the Endocrine Society, the American Urological Association, the European Association of Urology and similar bodies.
3. Peer-reviewed studies, with preference for randomized trials and large cohorts over small or uncontrolled studies, cited by journal, year and DOI.
4. Major academic medical centers' patient information, used for plain-language framing rather than as the primary evidence for a claim.

Forum posts, clinic marketing pages, supplement vendors, press releases and other news sites are not used as sources for clinical claims. Prescribing information from DailyMed is used for drug-specific facts such as dosing forms, warnings and approval dates.

2. Balance

Benefits and risks appear together. An entry on a benefit of therapy includes who is not a candidate and what the risks are. An entry on a risk includes how common it is, how it is monitored and managed, and when the benefits may outweigh it. One-sided health writing is not published here.

3. What Is Never Written

• Cure claims, blanket safety claims, or any suggestion that a reader can or should start hormone therapy without a licensed clinician.
• Dose recommendations. Tools that involve a dose use the number the reader types from their own prescription.
• Endorsements, rankings or comparisons of named products, clinics or providers.
• Anything written for or applicable to people under 18.

4. Updates

Every entry shows a published date and, when changed, an updated date. Entries are re-checked against their sources at least once a year and whenever a cited guideline, label or major trial changes. The updated date changes only when the content changes, never to make a page look fresh.

5. Authorship and Review

Entries are written and maintained by Tejanshu Jaluthria, an editor, not a clinician. No medical credential is attached to any byline on this site because none is held. Entries are not reviewed by a physician before publication; the sourcing rule above exists so that a reader, or their doctor, can check any claim directly. If a named, credentialed medical reviewer is ever engaged, that will be stated on the entries they reviewed, by name and credential, and this policy will be updated.

6. Use of AI Tools

Drafting and editing software, including AI language tools, may be used to organise research, draft passages and check consistency. Every claim in a published entry is verified by the editor against the linked source before publication. No entry is published without that human check, and no source is cited that the editor has not opened.

7. Advertising and Independence

This site earns money from automated display advertising. Advertisers do not see entries before publication, do not choose topics and cannot buy coverage or placement in the text. Ads are visually separated from entries and labelled. Affiliate links, if any are ever used, are disclosed where they appear. See the advertising disclosure.

8. Corrections

Errors of fact are corrected on the entry itself as soon as they are confirmed, and the updated date changes. Substantive corrections (a wrong number, a misattributed source, a claim that the evidence does not support) are also noted at the foot of the entry. To report one, email editor@trt.foundation with the entry's address and the source that shows the error. Every report gets a reply.

9. Scope

TRT Foundation is an independent, reader-supported reference site on testosterone replacement therapy. It is not a clinic, not a nonprofit, and does not sell or prescribe anything. It covers adult male testosterone deficiency and its treatment. It does not cover anabolic steroid use in sport, gender-affirming hormone therapy, or pediatric endocrinology, each of which has its own evidence base and its own specialist resources.