Question 1

How do you decide which option wins?

Accepted Answer

Every entity on the site is scored on the same six-part rubric before it appears in a single comparison: sustainability, short-term effect, long-term effect, evidence quality, monthly cost, and time to visible change. The comparison page reads those scores side by side rather than picking a favourite first and reverse-engineering reasons for it.

That is also why several pages end without a winner. Where two options land within a point of each other, we say so and move the question to which one you can realistically keep doing — adherence predicts outcome more reliably in the literature than the specific food rules do.

Question 2

Can a brand pay to score better here?

Accepted Answer

No. Audit and comparison scores are never influenced by a commercial relationship. No brand can buy placement, a better verdict, a higher position in a list, or a mention inside a protocol. Some sourcing and product pages do carry affiliate links, disclosed at the top of those pages. An affiliate relationship never changes a score, never reorders a list, and never changes the price you pay.

Question 3

Why compare a drug against a diet? They aren't the same kind of thing.

Accepted Answer

Mechanically they are not comparable — one is a pharmacological intervention, the other a dietary pattern. But adults genuinely weigh them as alternatives at the kitchen table, and pretending otherwise just sends people to worse sources for an answer. So those pages answer the question as it is actually asked, then reframe it: for most adults the honest answer is a sequence — which lever first, what runs alongside it, and what has to be in place before the drug is tapered — rather than one or the other.

Question 4

Which comparison should I read first?

Accepted Answer

Start with the pair you are genuinely choosing between this month. The pages are written to be read cold — no earlier article is assumed — and each ends with who the option fits, who it fails, and what to do if neither describes you. If you cannot yet name two candidates, the free assessment is the faster route. It maps your profile first, then points at the comparisons worth your time instead of leaving you to guess.

Question 5

You mention 300+ pairs, but only a few dozen are listed. Why?

Accepted Answer

The comparison engine generates every valid pairing from the underlying audit and product database — roughly 300 of them. The 52 listed above are the curated launch set. The rest render at their own URLs but stay noindexed until Search Console has validated the template. “Valid” is doing real work in that sentence. The engine refuses nonsense pairings — a continuous glucose monitor is never compared against a dietary pattern, because nobody is choosing between those two things.

Question 6

Do these pages tell me what to actually do next?

Accepted Answer

Each one closes with who the option fits, who it fails, and what to do if neither fits — because for a large share of readers the honest answer is that the argument they came to settle was not their real problem. Where something genuinely needs a clinician — tapering a GLP-1, bariatric surgery, medication interactions — the page says so plainly and points you back to your own prescriber rather than to a product we can sell you.

Two options. One rubric.

Find the argument you're trying to settle

Four steps, and none of them is picking a side

Read both, properly

Score on one rubric

Name who it fails

Answer the real question

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How these comparisons work

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