About Prove It Health
Women's health isn't a marketing tactic. We deserve to know what's proven and what's pretend.
I spent 20 years helping pharma companies sell products.
Now I tell you what they don't.
I have spent two decades working inside the pharmaceutical industry, across big pharma, biotech, medical devices and healthcare agencies. My job was to understand clinical evidence and turn it into marketing.
I was good at it.
I know exactly how a trial gets designed to favour a sponsor's product. I know how relative risk gets used instead of absolute risk to make a modest effect look dramatic. I know how publication bias buries inconvenient results, and how a product with thin evidence gets positioned as a breakthrough.
I have sat in those rooms. I have seen those decisions get made.
Then I hit perimenopause. And I started looking at the products being prescribed and sold to women like me. I knew exactly how to read the research. I knew exactly what was proven and what was pretend.
And now I want other women to know that too.
Our process
We look at the quality of the trials, the size of the effects, the independence of the research, and whether the claims being made to women actually match what the studies show.
Our aim
We are not here to tell you what to take or what to avoid. We are here to give you the information you need to decide for yourself.
FAQs
Find answers to common questions about our reviews and testing methods
The pharmaceutical industry is small and interconnected. Publishing under my name would compromise both my current work and my ability to write freely. The anonymity is deliberate. It means this site has no commercial relationships to protect, no former employer to stay on the right side of, and no incentive to soften a verdict.The evidence either supports a product or it does not. That is all that matters here.
A number from 0 to 5 that reflects the strength of the clinical evidence behind a product. It is not a recommendation to take or avoid anything. It is an honest assessment of what the research actually shows.
Every score is based on three things: the quality of the studies behind the product, whether those studies show a meaningful difference in efficacy and safety compared to a comparator, and whether the product is included in national or international clinical guidelines. These three factors are combined into a single score. The complete explanation of how scores are calculated, including how we weight different types of evidence, is on our scoring methodology page.
The gold standard is systematic reviews, meta-analyses and randomised controlled trials. These are designed to minimise bias and produce reliable results. Observational studies carry less weight, and marketing claims with no published data behind them carry none at all.
Prove It does not accept payment to review or score products. The site is currently free of advertising. That may change in future as the site grows, and if it does I will be transparent about it. Any advertising will be clearly labelled, and will have no bearing on how products are reviewed or scored. The editorial process and scoring methodology will remain independent regardless of how the site is funded.
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We don't provide medical advice
Prove It reviews are written from an evidence and industry perspective, not a clinical one. Nothing on this site constitutes medical advice. We help you understand what the research says. Your own treatment decisions should always be made in conversation with your doctor or pharmacist.
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