Prostate Supplement Guides: The Category And The Checks

There is an obvious objection to a shop writing a buying guide, and it deserves an answer rather than a disclaimer.

The answer is that the alternative is worse for everybody including this desk. A guide written to funnel every reader into one product is transparent within two paragraphs, and a reader who notices stops trusting the product pages as well. A guide that is genuinely useful sends some people away, and the ones who stay are buying with their eyes open, which is the only kind of purchase a desk selling a modestly dosed amino acid formula should want.

So the scorecard fails its own product on three of seven checks and says which three. The category guide names the six ingredients the research is about and points out that none of them is on the panel this website sells. Both of those cost orders. They are also the only reason anything else on this site is worth reading.

What this desk earns and how it earns it is set out on the about page, in the same plain terms.

Seven questions in the category guide and five in the scorecard. The last row is the one most people came for and it is the one with the failures in it.

The split between the two is deliberate. The category guide is about the subject and would be worth reading if this website sold nothing at all. The scorecard is about method, works on any bottle, and ends by turning itself on the product this desk sells.

• If nobody has looked at your symptoms yet, start with the category guide's section on assessment. Everything else on this website assumes that step is done, and it is the step that changes what is worth doing next.
• If you are comparing this formula with a saw palmetto capsule, read the category guide's evidence section first, then the ingredients page. The two products are not competing on the same ground and the comparison is not close.
• If you want to read any supplement label better, go straight to the scorecard. The seven checks work on every bottle on the shelf and take about two minutes each.
• If you are trying to decide about this specific product, read the scorecard's final section, which applies all seven checks to it and publishes the failures alongside the passes.
• If you want the free things that act faster than a capsule, the category guide's self-management section is the shortest useful summary of them anywhere on this website.

Both guides carry their sources inline rather than only in a list at the foot, so any claim can be followed to the record it came from without scrolling to the bottom and counting. Where a source is a public body rather than a trial, it is named as one.

Neither is written as an argument for buying anything. The category guide would read the same way if this desk sold nothing at all, and the scorecard is a method rather than a verdict: it works on a bottle in a shop this afternoon, on a product nobody has reviewed, six months after this page was last touched. That is the only kind of buying advice worth publishing.

• A recommended brand. Neither guide names a competitor to buy instead, because a recommendation from a shop is worth nothing and a method is worth something. The scorecard's seven checks work on any bottle on any shelf.
• A verdict on whether any ingredient works. The guides state what each trial dosed and what it measured, and link to the record. Turning that into a yes or a no would be this desk substituting its judgement for a reader's, on a subject where the reviews themselves disagree.
• Dosage advice. Nothing here tells anybody what to take or how much. The guides report what published trials used, which is a different kind of statement and the only one a retail desk has any business making.
• Anything about cancer. Prostate cancer is a separate subject with its own screening question, and mixing it into a page about urinary symptoms would be both inaccurate and alarming. The screening statement is linked where it belongs and nowhere else.
• A promise about this website's own product. The scorecard fails it on three of seven checks, and the guides carry no claim for it beyond the two general lines the seller makes.
• An invented expert. There is no named medical reviewer anywhere on this website. The byline is the ProstaFlow Team, an editorial desk with a written method, because a fabricated credential is the commonest dishonesty in this category.

Two of those omissions cost this desk money and the other four cost it nothing but the temptation. Listing them together is more useful than listing them separately, because a reader can then see which kind of omission each one is.