Editorial independence & advertising

The number that matters on this site — the Editors' Rating — is scored on six weighted factors under one published rubric, applied the same way to every provider we cover. A referral fee has no line in that scorecard. A provider that pays us and scores poorly is ranked poorly; a provider that pays us nothing and scores well is ranked well. If that ever stopped being true, this whole magazine would be worthless, so we hold the line.

What money buys in the running order is placement, and that is worth being exact about: on the ranking table and the best-of boards we list the titles we work with first, then everyone else, each group in Editors’ Rating order. It buys nothing else — not the rating, not the six factors, not a line of the copy. The rating is printed beside every row, so the order can be weighed against it.

Commercial relationships can influence emphasis — the cover spotlight, a featured card, how often a provider comes up. That is the honest limit of what money buys here, and wherever it applies we disclose it on the page itself. The order of a ranked list is never for sale; the prominence of a feature sometimes is, and we will always say so.

MetabolicMoms is an independent publisher. We are not a pharmacy, a telehealth company, or a drug manufacturer, and we hold no relationship with any provider or maker beyond ordinary affiliate agreements. We do not attempt to cover every brand in the market — the ones we review are the ones our readers, as mothers, keep asking about. Meet the editors on our masthead.

Choosing a GLP-1 provider is a personal health decision, and our reporting is a place to begin it — not medical advice. Compounded GLP-1 medications are not FDA-approved finished drug products, and GLP-1 medicines are not appropriate during pregnancy or while trying to conceive. Pricing and availability change constantly; confirm the current details on any provider's own site, and talk to a licensed clinician before you start. See our medical disclaimer.

Wegovy®, Ozempic® and Rybelsus® are trademarks of Novo Nordisk A/S; Mounjaro® and Zepbound® are trademarks of Eli Lilly and Company. We use these names only to identify the medications we discuss. Their use implies no endorsement or affiliation, and MetabolicMoms is not affiliated with any manufacturer.