Editorial policy

By Pinnacle Pulse Editorial Team · Last updated 16 October 2026

Who runs this site

This site is run by the people who make the Pinnacle Pulse app, a self-tracking app for logging entries, sleep, check-ins and notes on one timeline. The app and this website are operated by omowo LLC, Wyoming, USA (omowo.io). The articles in our research section and our legal status pages are written by the same small team. We are not a medical practice, a law firm or a news organization, and we don’t pretend to be one.

What these pages are, and what they aren’t

Background reading. Each article sets out what the published studies and the official texts say about one substance, and just as often what they leave open.

Don’t read them as medical or legal advice, because they aren’t. We never tell you to take a substance, buy it or stay away from it. Your doctor, your pharmacist or a lawyer who knows your case can do things a web page can’t.

No physician or lawyer has reviewed these pages

Better to put this up front than bury it. Nobody with a medical licence checks the research articles before they go live, and nobody with a law degree checks the legal status pages. That’s exactly why the sourcing rule below is so strict, and why we describe rather than judge. Some questions really do need a professional, for example whether a specific product counts as a medicine. When we hit one of those, we say so and stop.

Where our facts come from

A fact goes on a page only if we can find it in a primary source on the day we publish or update. Usually that’s one of these:

• a regulator’s own database or document: EMA’s medicine data, Drugs@FDA, FDA guidance, the papers FDA posts for its advisory committees;
• the legal text itself, from the Federal Register or EUR-Lex;
• WADA’s Prohibited List and Monitoring Program, in the PDF WADA publishes;
• PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov, cited by PubMed ID or trial number.

News stories, industry newsletters, shop pages, forums and social posts don’t count, not even when we suspect they’re right. At the end of every page you’ll find its sources and the date we last looked at each one.

What happens to a claim we can’t verify

We cut it. Sometimes a sentence survives in a shorter form that sticks to what the source actually says; a fuzzier version of the same unchecked claim isn’t allowed. Yes, that means some of our pages say less than the sites that rank above us. Fine by us.

How often we update

Two dates sit at the top of each page: when the facts were last checked, and when the next check is due. That gap is never more than 90 days. A new FDA notice, a new WADA list or a big trial result moves the check forward. The change log at the foot of each page records what we changed and when.

Corrections

Spotted a mistake, or something that’s gone stale? Write to contact@pinnaclepulse.io. Tell us the page and, ideally, link the source that proves us wrong. We’ll look it up in the primary source ourselves; if you’re right, the page gets fixed, the date moves and the change log says what happened.

Separation from the product

The app pays for this site, so we keep the two apart on purpose. Research and legal pages carry no calls to action and no links to the app’s product pages, apart from one clearly labelled box at the end that says who we are. They contain no affiliate links, no seller names and no discount codes, and we don’t sell or source any substance. Whether a substance helps or hurts our business has no bearing on what we write about it.