Editorial standards

These are the rules every guide on leanos.me follows. They exist because health pages ask for your trust, and the only way to earn it is to show where each claim comes from.

Every number has a source

Every number on a guide links to its primary source: a clinical trial, a drug's FDA label, or a peer-reviewed study. We link the paper or the label itself, not a news story about it. When a number is an average from a trial, the page says so, because averages describe groups and not any one person.

Community patterns are labelled

Some of the most useful things on these pages come from people who have been through it. Leanos read and coded 4,014 posts from people coming off a GLP-1, and the coming-off dataset page explains how. Anything from that work is labelled as what people report. It describes what people say, not what causes what.

Drug-neutral, and the prescriber owns the medication

The guides neither recommend nor discourage GLP-1 drugs. They never tell you to start, stop, taper, change a dose or go back on one. Where that decision comes up, a page says once, plainly, that it belongs to you and your prescriber. Drug brand names (Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro) appear only to say which drug a fact applies to. Leanos has no relationship with any drug maker.

Quoting real people

Quotes from Reddit are short, copied word for word, and linked to the thread they came from. We never print usernames, and we skip any post that asks not to be shared.

Leanos sells an app

Leanos makes money from an iPhone app, and the guides mention it. When they do, they say what it does today and nothing it doesn't. No trial has tested Leanos, so the guides make no claim that it changes anyone's odds of keeping the weight off, and the site publishes no Leanos outcome numbers until there is tested data behind them.

AI tools

AI tools help draft these pages and coded the posts in the coming-off dataset against a written codebook. Every number and quote is checked against its source before a page goes up, and the dataset page reports how accurate the coding was when we checked it by hand.

Corrections

If you find an error, email support@leanos.me. We fix it and update the date at the top of the page. A correction that changes what a page tells you gets a short note at the end of the page saying what changed.

Not medical advice

The guides are general information. They don't diagnose or treat anything, and they don't replace care from someone who knows your history. The terms have the full disclaimer.