Citing this publication

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Two sentences to include

Say the figure as the source publishes it, and say what it covers: "the source reports $250–$299 a month for the program, with a $99 initial lab and consultation fee billed separately". Then say the monthly figure is derived: "about $250 a month on the guide’s published arithmetic".

Never present a derived monthly figure as a price the program offers, and never present a company-wide traffic number as a testosterone audience. Both are conversions, and the program has never quoted either.

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What the publisher score means

The buyer guide is a commercial publisher ranking. The publisher sets every score (0–100) and every position by hand in one configuration file. No formula converts a price, a fee or a completeness count into a score, and no price change moves a provider.

The score is a promotional judgement about how attractive the publisher considers a program. Compensation, advertising relationships and publisher ownership may influence a score or a position. Where a provider holds a contracted paid placement it is labelled “Sponsored” beside its score, and its outbound links carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener".

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What the score does not mean

• It is not a clinical rating, a recommendation, a quality grade or a patient outcome measure.
• It is not an objective, algorithmic or computed measure of value, and it is not independent of the publisher’s commercial interests.
• It does not account for travel, visit time or the cost of stopping early.
• The sourced prices, fees and billing terms beside it keep their own arithmetic and their own check dates, and those are what a citation should quote.

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Media contact

Use the contact form and choose "press" as the subject. Sourcing questions are answered first, and the dataset behind any figure in this edition is available on request.