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Editorial and Review Policy

Sleep is a health topic, so this page exists to let you judge how much weight to put on anything else here. It includes the parts that are not flattering.

What this site is, for the purposes of this policy

Tips for Insomnia publishes general educational information about sleep habits. It is not medical advice, it does not diagnose, and it does not treat any condition. Nothing on it is written by a named clinician, and nothing on it claims to be.

Where health statements come from

Health-adjacent statements are written from a fixed registry of 30 public health sources. A guide cannot cite anything outside that registry, because the generator is only ever given the approved list and any URL outside it is rejected before the guide is written to disk. That is what makes a fabricated citation structurally impossible here rather than merely discouraged.

Every URL in the registry was fetched and confirmed to resolve before publication.

OrganisationSources in the registry
American Academy of Sleep Medicine6
NHS (United Kingdom)6
MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine4
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH)4
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH)2
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)2
National Institute of Mental Health (NIH)2
National Institute on Aging (NIH)1
NHS Every Mind Matters (United Kingdom)1
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH)1
U.S. Food and Drug Administration1

How guides are written

Guides are drafted with AI assistance against a fixed brief — the search intent the page owns, the angle it must take, the approved links it may use, and a long set of content rules — and are then validated automatically before anything is published.

A draft is rejected and regenerated if it contains any of the following:

  • A claim that anything cures, fixes or eliminates insomnia.
  • Diagnostic language — telling the reader what they have.
  • Any promise of a guaranteed outcome, and the phrases "instantly", "works for everyone" and "clinically proven", which this site never publishes.
  • A statistic presented as data, including any proportion claim without a source.
  • Advice about starting, stopping, changing or dosing any medication or supplement.
  • Any external link that is not already in the verified registry.
  • Advice to time how long you take to fall asleep, or to check the clock at night.
  • Signs of truncation: an unterminated sentence, unbalanced emphasis, a trailing heading.

Guides that pass are then checked again as a set: one keyword must not be claimed by two pages, every internal link must resolve, and every page must have exactly one H1, a canonical, and a meta description within a usable length.

What we do not claim

No page on this site has been reviewed by a named clinician. Pages that make health-adjacent statements carry a notice saying exactly that, and list their sources. We would rather show you an honest "not independently reviewed" than a review badge that means nothing.

We also do not invent an author. There is no fictional sleep doctor, no fabricated credentials, and no stock-photograph byline. Content is published under the Tips for Insomnia Editorial Team. If a genuine medical reviewer joins this site, their real name and real credentials will appear on the pages they have actually reviewed, and on no others.

How medical claims are bounded

The rules below apply to every page, not only to the ones about health:

  • We describe what is associated with better or worse sleep, not what is guaranteed to change it.
  • We prefer ranges and mechanisms to universal numbers. A single caffeine cut-off or bedroom temperature stated as fact for everybody would be wrong for most people.
  • Where the evidence is thin or contested, we say so rather than picking the more confident-sounding side.
  • Where a topic touches breathing, dangerous sleepiness, pain, pregnancy, or a problem that has run for months, the page says plainly that a professional look is appropriate.

Freshness and corrections

Health guidance moves. Pages carry a published date and, where they have been revised, an updated date — and both are real rather than refreshed automatically to look current.

If you find an error, tell us through the contact page. A substantive correction is made to the page and noted, not silently edited away. If we cannot verify a claim to the standard above, the claim comes out rather than staying in with a hedge attached.

Funding and independence

This site is funded by one product sold at a fixed price. It takes no advertising, no sponsorship, and no affiliate income — in particular none from supplements, sleep aids or mattresses, which is where most of the money in this subject is. Nothing on the site recommends a product to buy from anybody else.

The verified source registry

Every source a guide on this site may cite:

If you are worried about your sleep, talk to a doctor. Nothing on this site replaces that, and this policy exists partly to make sure we never imply otherwise. See when to see a doctor about your sleep and the medical disclaimer.